Sight

The Sense Of Sight

Andrew Ernest Ritz

May 8, 2011

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admire

verb –1. (13) admire, look up to – (feel admiration for)


appear

verb –1. (121) look, appear, seem – (give a certain impression or have
a certain outward aspect; ”She seems to be sleeping”; ”This appears
to be a very diﬃcult problem”; ”This project looks ﬁshy”; ”They
appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time”)


appearance

noun –1. (19) appearance, visual aspect – (outward or visible aspect
of a person or thing)


array

noun –1. (4) array – (an orderly arrangement; ”an array of troops in
battle order”)
verb –1. (1) range, array, lay out, set out – (lay out orderly or
logically in a line or as if in a line; ”lay out the clothes”; ”lay out the
arguments”)


attractive

adj –1. (4) attractive – (pleasing to the eye or mind especially
through beauty or charm; ”a remarkably attractive young man”; ”an
attractive personality”; ”attractive clothes”; ”a book with attractive
illustrations”)


auburn

adj –. auburn – ((of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown; ”auburn
hair”)


beautiful

adj –1. (25) beautiful – (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual
or emotional admiration; ”a beautiful child”; ”beautiful country”; ”a
beautiful painting”; ”a beautiful theory”; ”a beautiful party”)


beauty

noun –1. (16) beauty – (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)


becoming

verb –1. (327) become, go, get – (enter or assume a certain state or
condition; ”He became annoyed when he heard the bad news”; ”It
must be getting more serious”; ”her face went red with anger”; ”She
went into ecstasy”; ”Get going!”)
adj –1. becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly –
(according with custom or propriety; ”her becoming modesty”;
”comely behavior”; ”it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be
constantly asking for money”; ”a decent burial”; ”seemly behavior”)


binoculars

noun –. (1) binoculars, ﬁeld glasses, opera glasses – (an optical
instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes)


black

noun –1. (4) black, blackness, inkiness – (the quality or state of the
achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to
white))
verb –. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black – (make or become
black; ”The smoke blackened the ceiling”; ”The ceiling blackened”)
adj –1. (52) black – (being of the achromatic color of maximum
darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
incident light; ”black leather jackets”; ”as black as coal”; ”rich black
soil”)


blank

noun –1. space, blank – (a blank character used to separate
successive words in writing or printing; ”he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet”)
verb –. blank – (keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning)
adj –1. (1) blank, clean, white – ((of a surface) not written or printed
on; ”blank pages”; ”ﬁll in the blank spaces”; ”a clean page”; ”wide
white margins”)


blare

noun –. (1) blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din – (a loud harsh or
strident noise)
verb –1. (1) blast, blare – (make a strident sound; ”She tended to
blast when speaking into a microphone”)


blaze

noun –1. (4) blaze, blazing – (a strong ﬂame that burns brightly;
”the blaze spread rapidly”)
verb –1. (5) blaze – (shine brightly and intensively; ”Meteors blazed
across the atmosphere”)


blazing

noun –. blaze, blazing – (a strong ﬂame that burns brightly; ”the
blaze spread rapidly”)
verb –1. (5) blaze – (shine brightly and intensively; ”Meteors blazed
across the atmosphere”)
adj –1. (3) blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary –
(shining intensely; ”the blazing sun”; ”blinding headlights”; ”dazzling
snow”; ”fulgent patterns of sunlight”; ”the glaring sun”)


bleached

verb –1. (1) bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize,
decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise,
discolorise – (remove color from; ”The sun bleached the red shirt”)
adj –1. (1) bleached, faded, washed-out, washy – (having lost
freshness or brilliance of color; ”sun-bleached deck chairs”; ”faded
jeans”; ”a very pale washed-out blue”; ”washy colors”)


bleary

adj –1. (1) bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed – (tired to the point
of exhaustion)


blind

noun –1. (5) blind – (people who have severe visual impairments,
considered as a group; ”he spent hours reading to the blind”)
verb –1. (2) blind – (render unable to see)
adj –1. (11) blind, unsighted – (unable to see; ”a person is blind to
the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do eﬃciently
those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision”–Kenneth
Jernigan)


blink

noun –. blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation
– (a reﬂex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly)
verb –1. (11) blink, wink, nictitate, nictate – (brieﬂy shut the eyes;
”The TV announcer never seems to blink”)


blond

noun –1. blond, blonde – (a person with fair skin and hair)
adj –. (2) blond, blonde, light-haired – (being or having light colored
skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; ”blond Scandinavians”; ”a
house full of light-haired children”)


blot

noun –1. (7) smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur – (a
blemish made by dirt; ”he had a smudge on his cheek”)
verb –1. blot – (dry (ink) with blotting paper)


blue

noun –1. (9) blue, blueness – (blue color or pigment; resembling the
color of the clear sky in the daytime; ”he had eyes of bright blue”)
verb –. blue – (turn blue)
adj –1. (48) blue, bluish, blueish – (of the color intermediate between
green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded
sky; ”October’s bright blue weather”- Helen Hunt Jackson; ”a blue
ﬂame”; ”blue haze of tobacco smoke”)


blur

noun –. (4) blur, fuzz – (a hazy or indistinct representation; ”it
happened so fast it was just a blur”; ”he tried to clear his head of the
whisky fuzz”)
verb –1. (2) ﬁlm over, glaze over, blur – (become glassy; lose clear
vision; ”Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep”)


blurred

verb –1. (2) ﬁlm over, glaze over, blur – (become glassy; lose clear
vision; ”Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep”)
adj –1. (5) bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy –
(indistinct or hazy in outline; ”a landscape of blurred outlines”; ”the
trees were just blurry shapes”)


bright

adj –1. (16) bright – (emitting or reﬂecting light readily or in large
amounts; ”the sun was bright and hot”; ”a bright sunlit room”)
adv –. (1) brilliantly, brightly, bright – (with brightness; ”the stars
shone brilliantly”; ”the windows glowed jewel bright”)


brighten

verb –1. (1) brighten, lighten up, lighten – (make lighter or brighter;
”The paint will brighten the room”)


brightness

noun –1. (11) brightness – (the location of a visual perception along
a continuum from black to white)


brilliance

noun –1. (1) glare, blaze, brilliance – (a light within the ﬁeld of
vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are
adapted; ”a glare of sunlight”)


brindle

adj –. (3) brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby – (having a grey or brown
streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especiall y of the
patterned fur of cats)


brown

noun –1. (2) brown, brownness – (an orange of low brightness and
saturation)
verb –1. (1) brown – (fry in a pan until it changes color; ”brown the
meat in the pan”)
adj –1. (38) brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown – (of a
color similar to that of wood or earth)


brunette

noun –. brunet, brunette – (a person with dark (brown) hair)
adj –. brunet, brunette – (marked by dark or relatively dark
pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; ”a brunette beauty”)


clean

noun –. (1) clean and jerk, clean – (a weightlift in which the barbell
is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead)
verb –1. (16) clean, make clean – (make clean by removing dirt, ﬁlth,
or unwanted substances from; ”Clean the stove!”; ”The dentist
cleaned my teeth”)
adj –1. (17) clean – (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean
habits; ”children with clean shining faces”; ”clean white shirts”;
”clean dishes”; ”a spotlessly clean house”; ”cats are clean animals”)
adv –1. (1) clean, plumb, plum – (completely; used as intensiﬁe rs;
”clean forgot the appointment”; ”I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out”)


clear

noun –1. clear – (the state of being free of suspicion; ”investi gation
showed that he was in the clear”)
verb –1. (16) unclutter, clear – (rid of obstructions; ”Clear your
desk”)
adj –1. (55) clear – (readily apparent to the mind; ”a clear and
present danger”; ”a clear explanation”; ”a clear case of murder”; ”a
clear indication that she was angry”; ”gave us a clear idea of human
nature”)
adv –1. (3) clear, all the way – (completely; ”read the book clear to
the end”; ”slept clear through the night”; ”there were open ﬁelds
clear to the horizon”)


color

noun –1. (48) color, colour, coloring, colouring – (a visual attribute
of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect;
”a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light”)
verb –1. (7) color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color
in, colour in – (add color to; ”The child colored the drawings”; ”Fall
colored the trees”; ”colorize black and white film”)
adj –. (4) color, colour – (having or capable of producing colors;
”color film”; ”he rented a color television”; ”marvelous color
illustrations”)


colorful

adj –1. (6) colorful, colourful – (having striking color; ”colorful
autumn leaves”)


colored

noun –. colored person, colored – (a United States term for Blacks
that is now considered offensive)
verb –1. (7) color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color
in, colour in – (add color to; ”The child colored the drawings”; ”Fall
colored the trees”; ”colorize black and white film”)
adj –1. (13) colored, coloured, colorful – (having color or a certain
color; sometimes used in combination; ”colored crepe paper”; ”the
film was in color”; ”amber-colored heads of grain”)


colorless

adj –1. colorless, colourless – (lacking in variety and interest ; ”a
colorless and unimaginative person”; ”a colorless description of the
parade”)


crystal

noun –1. (4) crystal – (a solid formed by the solidiﬁcation of a
chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure)


dappled

verb –. mottle, dapple, cloud – (colour with streaks or blotches of
diﬀerent shades)
adj –. (1) dappled, mottled – (having spots or patches of color)


dark

noun –1. (9) dark, darkness – (absence of light or illumination)
adj –1. (49) dark – (devoid of or deﬁcient in light or brightne ss;
shadowed or black; ”sitting in a dark corner”; ”a dark day”; ”dark
shadows”; ”dark as the inside of a black cat”)


darken

verb –1. (4) darken – (become dark or darker; ”The sky darkened” )


dazzle

noun –. dazzle – (brightness enough to blind partially and
temporarily)
verb –1. (3) dazzle, bedazzle, daze – (to cause someone to lose clear
vision, especially from intense light; ”She was dazzled by the bright
headlights”)


dazzling

verb –1. (3) dazzle, bedazzle, daze – (to cause someone to lose clear
vision, especially from intense light; ”She was dazzled by the bright
headlights”)
adj –1. (2) dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous – (amazingly
impressive; suggestive of the ﬂashing of lightning; ”the skater’s
dazzling virtuosic leaps”; ”these great best canvases still look as
astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...h is fulgurant
popularity was in full growth”- Janet Flanner; ”adventure s
related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous”- Idwal Jones)


dim

verb –1. dim, dip – (switch (a car’s headlights) from a higher to a
lower beam)
adj –1. (4) dim, subdued – (lacking in light; not bright or harsh; ”a
dim light beside the bed”; ”subdued lights and soft music”)


dingy

adj –1. (4) begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy – (thickly
covered with ingrained dirt or soot; ”a miner’s begrimed face”; ”dingy
linen”; ”grimy hands”; ”grubby little ﬁngers”; ”a grungy kitchen”)


dirty

verb –. dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire – (make soiled, ﬁlthy,
or dirty; ”don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”)
adj –1. (12) dirty, soiled, unclean – (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or
grime; ”dirty unswept sidewalks”; ”a child in dirty overalls”; ”dirty
slums”; ”piles of dirty dishes”; ”put his dirty feet on the clean sheet”;
”wore an unclean shirt”; ”mining is a dirty job”; ”Cinderella did the
dirty work while her sisters preened themselves”)


discolor

verb –1. discolor – (lose color or turn colorless; ”The painting
discolored”)


discolored

verb –1. discolor – (lose color or turn colorless; ”The painting
discolored”)


distinct

adj –1. (14) distinct, distinguishable – ((often followed by ‘from’) not
alike; diﬀerent in nature or quality; ”plants of several distinct types”;
”the word ‘nationalism’ is used in at least two distinct senses”; ”gold
is distinct from iron”; ”a tree related to but quite distinct from the
European beech”; ”management had interests quite distinct from
those of their employees”)


drab

noun –. olive drab, drab – (a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive
brown)
adj –1. (2) drab, dreary – (lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
”her drab personality”; ”life was drab compared with the more
exciting life style overseas”; ”a series of dreary dinner parties”)


dusky

adj –1. (1) dusky, twilight, twilit – (lighted by or as if by twilight;
”The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn”-Henry
Fielding; ”the twilight glow of the sky”; ”a boat on a twilit river”)


dye

noun –. dye, dyestuﬀ – (a usually soluble substance for staining or
coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)
verb –. (1) dye – (color with dye; ”Please dye these shoes”)


eye

noun –1. (263) eye, oculus, optic – (the organ of sight)
verb –. (11) eye, eyeball – (look at)


eyewitness

noun –. eyewitness – (a spectator who can describe what happened )
verb –. eyewitness – (be present at an event and see it with one’s
own eyes)


fade

noun –1. slice, fade, slicing – (a golf shot that curves to the right for
a right-handed golfer; ”he took lessons to cure his slicing”)
verb –1. (6) fade, melt – (become less clearly visible or
distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; ”The scene begins
to fade”; ”The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk”)


faded

verb –1. (6) fade, melt – (become less clearly visible or
distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; ”The scene begins
to fade”; ”The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk”)
adj –1. (7) bleached, faded, washed-out, washy – (having lost
freshness or brilliance of color; ”sun-bleached deck chairs”; ”faded
jeans”; ”a very pale washed-out blue”; ”washy colors”)


faint

noun –. faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium – (a spontaneous loss of
consciousness caused by insuﬃcient blood to the brain)
verb –. (1) faint, conk, swoon, pass out – (pass out from weakness,
physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the
brain)
adj –1. (5) faint, weak – (deﬁcient in magnitude; barely perceptible;
lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; ”a faint outline”; ”the
wan sun cast faint shadows”; ”the faint light of a distant candle”;
”weak colors”; ”a faint hissing sound”; ”a faint aroma”; ”a weak
pulse”)


fair

noun –1. (1) carnival, fair, funfair – (a traveling show; having
sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.)
verb –. (1) fair – (join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly)
adj –1. (10) fair, just – (free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or
deception; conforming with established standards or rules; ”a fair
referee”; ”fair deal”; ”on a fair footing”; ”a fair ﬁght”; ”by fair means
or foul”)
adv –1. fairly, fair, clean – (in conformity with the rules or laws and
without fraud or cheating; ”they played fairly”)


farsighted

adj –1. farsighted, presbyopic – (able to see distant objects clearly)


flash

noun –1. (7) flash – (a sudden intense burst of radiant energy)
verb –1. (9) flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle – (gleam or glow
intermittently; ”The lights were flashing”)
adj –. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud,
meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy – (tastelessly showy; ”a flash
car”; ”a flashy ring”; ”garish colors”; ”a gaudy costume”; ”loud sport
shirts”; ”a meretricious yet stylish book”; ”tawdry ornaments”)


flashy

adj –1. (1) brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack , loud,


flicker

noun –1. flicker, spark, glint – (a momentary flash of light)
verb –1. (3) flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver – (move back and
forth very rapidly; ”the candle flickered”)


foggy

adj –1. dazed, foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous – (stunned or confused
and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion))


freckled

verb –1. freckle – (become freckled; ”I freckle easily”)
adj –. freckled, lentiginous, lentiginose – (relating to or covered with
or resembling freckles)


gaudy

noun –. gaudy – ((Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or
entertainment held a college)
adj –1. (1) brassy, cheap, ﬂash, ﬂashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack , loud,


gawk

noun –. lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump,
gawk – (an awkward stupid person)
verb –. (1) goggle, gape, gawp, gawk – (look with amazement; look
stupidly)


gaze

noun –. (8) gaze, regard – (a long fixed look; ”he fixed his paternal
gaze on me”)
verb –. (25) gaze, stare – (look at with fixed eyes; ”The students
stared at the teacher with amazement”)


glance

noun –. (31) glance, glimpse, coup d’oeil – (a quick look)
verb –1. (34) glance, peek, glint – (throw a glance at; take a brief
look at; ”She only glanced at the paper”; ”I only peeked–I didn’t see
anything interesting”)


glare

noun –1. (5) glare, blaze, brilliance – (a light within the ﬁeld of
vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are
adapted; ”a glare of sunlight”)
verb –1. (9) glower, glare – (look at with a ﬁxed gaze; ”The girl
glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her”)


glasses

noun –1. (4) spectacles, specs, eyeglasses, glasses – (optical
instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for
correcting defective vision)
Overview of noun glass
The noun glass has 7 senses (ﬁrst 4 from tagged texts)
1. (22) glass – (a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic
structure)
verb –1. glass, glaze – (furnish with glass; ”glass the windows” )


gleam

noun –1. (3) gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency – (an appearance of
reﬂected light)
verb –1. (3) glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine – (be shiny, as if wet;
”His eyes were glistening”)


gleaming

noun –1. (1) gleam, gleaming, glimmer – (a ﬂash of light (especially
reﬂected light))
adj –. (3) agleam, gleaming, nitid – (bright with a steady but
subdued shining; ”from the plane we saw the city below agleam with
lights”; ”the gleaming brass on the altar”; ”Nereids beneath the nitid
moon”)


glimmer

noun –1. (1) gleam, gleaming, glimmer – (a ﬂash of light (especially
reﬂected light))
verb –. gleam, glimmer – (shine brightly, like a star or a light)


glimpse

noun –1. (6) glance, glimpse, coup d’oeil – (a quick look)
verb –. (5) glimpse – (catch a glimpse of or see brieﬂy; ”We glimpsed
the Queen as she got into her limousine”)


glint

noun –1. (1) ﬂicker, spark, glint – (a momentary ﬂash of light)


glitter

noun –1. (2) glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle – (the
quality of shining with a bright reﬂected light)
verb –. (4) glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine – (be shiny, as if wet;


glittering

adj –. (6) aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering,
glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly – (having brief brilliant points
or ﬂashes of light; ”bugle beads all aglitter” ; ”glinting eyes”;
”glinting water”; ”his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent”;
”shop window full of glittering Christmas trees”; ”glittery costume
jewelry”; ”scintillant mica”; ”the scintilla ting stars”; ”a dress with
sparkly sequins”; ”‘glistering’ is an archaic term”)


glisten

noun –. glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle – (the quality of
shining with a bright reﬂected light)


glistening

adj –. (2) glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining –
(reﬂecting light; ”glistening bodies of swimmers”; ”the horse’s glossy
coat”; ”lustrous auburn hair”; ”saw the moon like a shiny dime on a
deep blue velvet carpet”; ”shining white enamel”)


gloom

noun –1. (10) gloom, somberness, sombreness – (a state of partial or
total darkness; ”he struck a match to dispel the gloom”)


gloomy

adj –1. (1) glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky – (depressingly dark;
”the gloomy forest”; ”the glooming interior of an old inn”;
”‘gloomful’ is archaic”)


gloss

noun –1. gloss, rubric – (an explanation or deﬁnition of an obscure
word in a text)
verb –1. gloss – (give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing)


glossy

noun –1. slick, slick magazine, glossy – (a magazine printed on good
quality paper)
adj –1. glossy, calendered – ((of paper and fabric and leather) having
a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between
rollers; ”calendered paper”; ”glossy paper”)


glow

noun –1. (3) freshness, glow – (an alert and refreshed state)
verb –1. (5) glow – (emit a steady even light without flames; ”The
fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden”)


glowing

noun –. radiance, glow, glowing – (the amount of electromagnetic
radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface)
verb –1. (5) glow – (emit a steady even light without flames; ”The
fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden”)
adj –. (1) glowing – (highly enthusiastic; ”glowing praise”)


goggle

verb –. goggle, gape, gawp, gawk – (look with amazement; look
stupidly)


gorgeous

adj –. (1) gorgeous – (dazzlingly beautiful; ”a gorgeous Victorian
gown”)


gray

noun –1. (6) gray, grayness, grey, greyness – (a neutral achromatic
color midway between white and black)
verb –1. grey, gray – (make grey; ”The painter decided to grey the
sky”)
adj –1. (38) grey, gray, greyish, grayish – (of an achromatic color of
any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black;
”the little grey cells”; ”gray ﬂannel suit”; ”a man with greyish hair”)


green

noun –1. (6) green, greenness, viridity – (green color or pigment;
resembling the color of growing grass)
verb –. green – (turn or become green; ”The trees are greening”)
adj –1. (26) green, greenish, light-green, dark-green – (of the color
between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of
fresh grass; ”a green tree”; ”green ﬁelds”; ”green paint”)


grimy

adj –. (4) begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy – (thickly
covered with ingrained dirt or soot; ”a miner’s begrimed face”; ”dingy
linen”; ”grimy hands”; ”grubby little ﬁngers”; ”a grungy kitchen”)


homely

adj –1. (5) homely, plain – (lacking in physical beauty or proportion;
”a homely child”; ”several of the buildings were downright homely”;
”a plain girl with a freckled face”)


hue

noun –. (6) hue, chromaticity – (the quality of a color as determined
by its dominant wavelength)
verb –1. hue – (take on color or become colored; ”In highlights it
hued to a dull silver-grey”)


illusion

noun –1. (23) illusion, semblance – (an erroneous mental
representation)


image

noun –1. (31) image, mental image – (an iconic mental representa
tion; ”her imagination forced images upon her too awful to
contemplate ”)
verb –1. image – (render visible, as by means of MRI)


indistinct

adj –. (1) indistinct – (not clearly deﬁned or easy to perceive or
understand; ”indistinct shapes in the gloom”; ”an indistinct
memory”; ”only indistinct notions of what to do”)


invisible

adj –1. (5) invisible, unseeable – (impossible or nearly impossible to
see; imperceptible by the eye; ”the invisible man”; ”invisible rays”;
”an invisible hinge”; ”invisible mending”)


light

noun –1. (46) light, visible light, visible radiation – ((physic s)
electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; ”the
light was ﬁltered through a soft glass window”)
verb –1. (12) light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate – (make
lighter or brighter; ”This lamp lightens the room a bit”)
adj –1. (14) light – (of comparatively little physical weight or density;
”a light load”; ”magnesium is a light metal–having a speciﬁc gravity
of 1.74 at 20 degrees C”)
adv –. lightly, light – (with few burdens; ”experienced travelle rs
travel light”)


look

noun –1. (24) expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face – (the
feelings expressed on a person’s face; ”a sad expression” ; ”a look of
triumph”; ”an angry face”)
verb –1. (274) look – (perceive with attention; direct one’s gaze
towards; ”She looked over the expanse of land”; ”Look at your
child!”; ”Look–a deer in the backyard!”)


magnify

verb –1. (4) magnify, amplify – (increase in size, volume or
signiﬁcance; ”Her terror was magniﬁed in her mind”)


microscope

noun –. (7) microscope – (magniﬁer of the image of small objects;
”the invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell”)


mirage

noun –1. mirage – (an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction
by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reﬂections of distant objects)


mirror

noun –1. (8) mirror – (polished surface that forms images by
reflecting light)
verb –1. (4) mirror – (reflect as if in a mirror; ”The smallest pond at
night mirrors the firmament above”)


misty

adj –1. (1) brumous, foggy, hazy, misty – (ﬁlled or abounding with
fog or mist; ”a brumous October morning”)


mottled

verb –1. (2) mottle, streak, blotch – (mark with spots or blotches of
diﬀerent color or shades of color as if stained)
adj –. (1) dappled, mottled – (having spots or patches of color)


murky

adj –1. (2) cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid – ((of liquids)
clouded as with sediment; ”a cloudy liquid”; ”muddy coﬀee”; ”murky
waters”)


nearsighted

adj –. (1) nearsighted, shortsighted, myopic – (unable to see distant
objects clearly)


notice

noun –1. (8) notice – (an announcement containing information
about an event; ”you didn’t give me enough notice”; ”an obituary
notice”; ”a notice of sale)
verb –1. (39) detect, observe, ﬁnd, discover, notice – (discove r or
determine the existence, presence, or fact of; ”She detected high levels
of lead in her drinking water”; ”We found traces of lead in the paint”)


observe

verb –1. (39) detect, observe, ﬁnd, discover, notice – (discove r or
determine the existence, presence, or fact of; ”She detected high levels
of lead in her drinking water”; ”We found traces of lead in the paint”)


observant

adj –1. (2) observant – (paying close attention especially to details)


observer

noun –1. (11) perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder – (a person
who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)


observation

noun –1. (26) observation – (the act of making and recording a
measurement)


ogle

verb –. (2) ogle – (look at with amorous intentions)


orange

noun –1. (4) orange – (round yellow to orange fruit of any of several
citrus trees)
adj –. (7) orange, orangish – (of the color between red and yellow;
similar to the color of a ripe orange)


pale

noun –. (1) picket, pale – (a wooden strip forming part of a fence)
verb –. (1) pale, blanch, blench – (turn pale, as if in fear)
adj –1. (12) pale – (very light colored; highly diluted with white;
”pale seagreen”; ”pale blue eyes”)


pastel

noun –. (1) pastel – (any of various pale or light colors)
adj –1. (1) pastel – (lacking in body or vigor; ”faded pastel charms of
the naive music”)


peek

noun –. peek, peep – (a secret look)
verb –. glance, peek, glint – (throw a glance at; take a brief look at;
”She only glanced at the paper”; ”I only peeked–I didn’t see anything
interesting”)


peep

noun –1. cheep, peep – (the short weak cry of a young bird)
verb –1. (1) peep – (look furtively; ”He peeped at the woman
through the window”)


peer

noun –1. (4) peer, equal, match, compeer – (a person who is of
equal standing with another in a group)
verb –. (30) peer – (look searchingly; ”We peered into the back of
the shop to see whether a salesman was around”)


periscope

noun –. periscope – (an optical instrument that provides a view of an
otherwise obstructed ﬁeld)


perceive

verb –1. (26) perceive, comprehend – (to become aware of through
the senses; ”I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon”)


perception

noun –1. (6) percept, perception, perceptual experience – (the
representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation
of a concept)


picture

noun –1. (25) picture, image, icon, ikon – (a visual representat ion
(of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a
surface; ”they showed us the pictures of their wedding”; ”a movie is a
series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them”)
verb –1. (5) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, ﬁgure,
picture, image – (imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind; ”I can’t see
him on horseback!”; ”I can see what will happen”; ”I can see a risk in
this strategy”)


pigment

noun –1. (2) pigment – (dry coloring material (especially a powder to
be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))
verb –1. pigment – (acquire pigment; become colored or imbued)


pink

noun –1. (2) pink – (a light shade of red)
verb –1. tap, rap, knock, pink – (make light, repeated taps on a
surface; ”he was tapping his ﬁngers on the table impatiently”)
adj –. (12) pink, pinkish – (of a light shade of red)


polished

verb –1. (7) polish, smooth, smoothen, shine – (make (a surface)
shine; ”shine the silver, please”; ”polish my shoes”)
adj –1. (2) polished – (perfected or made shiny and smooth; ”his
polished prose”; ”in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes”;
”freshly polished silver”)


pretty

adj –1. (20) pretty – (pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing;
”pretty girl”; ”pretty song”; ”pretty room”)
adv –. (35) reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly,
middling, passably – (to a moderately suﬃcient extent or degree;
”pretty big”; ”pretty bad”; ”jolly decent of him”; ”the shoes are
priced reasonably”; ”he is fairly clever with computers”)


purple

noun –1. (2) purple, purpleness – (a purple color or pigment)
verb –1. purple – (become purple)
adj –1. (9) purple, violet, purplish – (of a color intermediate between
red and blue)


radiance

noun –1. (2) radiance, glow, glowing – (the amount of electromag
netic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface)


radiant

adj –. (2) beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent – (radiating
or as if radiating light; ”the beaming sun”; ”the effulgent daffodils”;
”a radiant sunrise”; ”a refulgent sunset”)


recognize

verb –1. (33) acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know – (accept
(someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority;
”The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne”;
”We do not recognize your gods”)


red

noun –1. (9) red, redness – (red color or pigment; the chromatic
color resembling the hue of blood)
adj –1. (43) red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry,
cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet – (of a color at the end of
the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or
cherries or tomatoes or rubies)


reflect

verb –1. (41) reflect – (manifest or bring back; ”This action reflects
his true beliefs”)


reflection

noun –1. (8) contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing,
thoughtfulness – (a calm, lengthy, intent consideration)


reflector

noun –1. (6) reflector – (device that reflects radiation)


reveal

verb –1. (34) uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal – (make visible;
”Summer brings out bright clothes”; ”He brings out the best in her”)


review

noun –1. (4) reappraisal, revaluation, review, reassessment – (a new
appraisal or evaluation)
verb –1. (13) review, reexamine – (look at again; examine again;
”let’s review your situation”)


scan

noun –1. (3) scan – (the act of scanning; systematic examination of
a prescribed region; ”he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars”)
verb –1. (9) scan – (examine minutely or intensely; ”the surgeon
scanned the X-ray”)


scene

noun –1. (18) scene – (the place where some action occurs; ”the
police returned to the scene of the crime”)


scrutiny

noun –1. (3) examination, scrutiny – (the act of examining
something closely (as for mistakes))


see

noun –. see – (the seat within a bishop’s diocese where his cathedral
is located)
verb –1. (613) see – (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive
by sight; ”You have to be a good observer to see all the details”;
”Can you see the bird in that tree?”; ”He is blind–he cannot see”)


shade

noun –1. (9) shade, shadiness, shadowiness – (relative darkness
caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; ”it is much
cooler in the shade”; ”there’s too much shadiness to take good
photographs”)
verb –1. (2) shadow, shade, shade oﬀ – (cast a shadow over)


shadowy

adj –1. (1) shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous – (ﬁlled with
shade; ”the shady side of the street”; ”the surface of the pond is dark
and shadowed”; ”we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove”; ”cool
umbrageous woodlands”)


sheen

noun –. shininess, sheen, luster, lustre – (the visual property of
something that shines with reﬂected light)


sheer

verb –1. (1) swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut – (turn
sharply; change direction abruptly; ”The car cut to the left at the
intersection”; ”The motorbike veered to the right”)
adj –1. (6) absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer
– (complete and without restriction or qualiﬁcation; sometimes used
informally as intensiﬁers; ”absolute freedom”; ”an absolute dimwit”;
”a downright lie”; ”out-and-out mayhem”; ”an out-and-out lie”; ”a
rank outsider”; ”many right-down vices”; ”got the job through sheer
persistence”; ”sheer stupidity”)
adv –1. sheer, perpendicularly – (straight up or down without a
break)


shimmer

noun –. shimmer, play – (a weak and tremulous light; ”the shimmer
of colors on iridescent feathers”; ”the play of light on the water”)
verb –1. shimmer – (shine with a weak or ﬁtful light; ”Beech leaves
shimmered in the moonlight”)


shimmering

verb –1. shimmer – (shine with a weak or ﬁtful light; ”Beech leaves
shimmered in the moonlight”)


shine

noun –. radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency –
(the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)
verb –1. (9) reflect, shine – (be bright by reflecting or casting light;
”Drive carefully–the wet road reflects”)


shining

noun –. (1) shining, polishing – (the work of making something
smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it; ”the shining of shoes
provided a meager living”; ”every Sunday he gave his car a good
polishing”)
verb –1. (9) reflect, shine – (be bright by reflecting or casting light;
”Drive carefully–the wet road reflects”)
adj –1. (2) shining – (marked by exceptional merit; ”had shining
virtues and few faults”; ”a shining example”)


shiny

adj –1. (2) glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining –
(reﬂecting light; ”glistening bodies of swimmers”; ”the horse’s glossy
coat”; ”lustrous auburn hair”; ”saw the moon like a shiny dime on a
deep blue velvet carpet”; ”shining white enamel”)


show

noun –1. (18) show – (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertai ning;
”a remarkable show of skill”)
verb –1. (136) show, demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate – (give an
exhibition of to an interested audience; ”She shows her dogs
frequently”; ”We will demo the new software in Washington”)


showy

adj –1. (1) ﬂamboyant, showy, splashy – (marked by ostentation but
often tasteless; ”a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet”; ”a splashy
half-page ad”)


sight

noun –1. (17) sight – (an instance of visual perception; ”the sight of
his wife brought him back to reality”; ”the train was an unexpected
sight”)
verb –1. (4) spy, sight – (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes;
”he caught sight of the king’s men coming over the ridge”)


smeared

verb –1. smear – (stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty
substance)


smudged

verb –. smear, blur, smudge, smutch – (make a smudge on; soil by
smudging)


soiled

verb –. (1) dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire – (make soiled,
ﬁlthy, or dirty; ”don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”)
adj –. (10) dirty, soiled, unclean – (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or
grime; ”dirty unswept sidewalks”; ”a child in dirty overalls”; ”dirty
slums”; ”piles of dirty dishes”; ”put his dirty feet on the clean sheet”;
”wore an unclean shirt”; ”mining is a dirty job”; ”Cinderella did the
dirty work while her sisters preened themselves”)


sooty

adj –1. (1) coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty – (of the blackest
black; similar to the color of jet or coal)


sparkle

noun –1. (2) sparkle, twinkle, spark, light – (merriment expressed by
a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; ”he had a sparkle
in his eye”; ”there’s a perpetual twinkle in his eyes”)
verb –1. (1) sparkle, scintillate, coruscate – (reﬂect brightly ;
”Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside”)


sparkling

noun –. twinkle, scintillation, sparkling – (a rapid change in
brightness; a brief spark or ﬂash)
verb –1. (1) sparkle, scintillate, coruscate – (reﬂect brightly ;
”Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside”)
adj –1. (2) sparkling – (shining with brilliant points of light like stars;
”sparkling snow”; ”sparkling eyes”)


speckled

verb –1. stipple, speckle – (produce a mottled eﬀect; ”The sunlight
stippled the trees”)
adj –. (1) dotted, ﬂecked, specked, speckled, stippled – (having a
pattern of dots)


spectacle

noun –1. (8) spectacle – (something or someone seen (especially a
notable or unusual sight); ”the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to
escape”)


spectator

noun –1. (12) spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker – (a close
observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of
some kind); ”the spectators applauded the performance”; ”television
viewers”; ”sky watchers discovered a new star”)


spectrum

noun –1. (18) spectrum – (an ordered array of the components of an
emission or wave)


splotched

verb –. splotch – (blotch or spot)
adj –. blotched, blotchy, splotched – (marked with irregularly shaped
spots or blots)


spy

noun –1. (3) spy, undercover agent – ((military) a secret agent hired
by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to
obtain industrial secrets from competitors)
verb –1. (2) descry, spot, espy, spy – (catch sight of)


squint

noun –1. strabismus, squint – (abnormal alignment of one or both
eyes)
verb –1. (3) squint, squinch – (cross one’s eyes as if in strabismus;
”The children squinted so as to scare each other”)
adj –. askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong
– ((used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with
doubt or suspicion or envy; ”her eyes with their misted askance look”-
Elizabeth Bowen; ”sidelong glances”)


stain

noun –1. (5) stain, discoloration, discolouration – (a soiled or
discolored appearance; ”the wine left a dark stain”)
verb –1. (19) stain – (color with a liquid dye or tint; ”Stain this table
a beautiful walnut color”; ”people knew how to stain glass a beautiful
blue in the middle ages”)


streak

noun –1. (1) streak, run – (an unbroken series of events; ”had a
streak of bad luck”; ”Nicklaus had a run of birdies”)
verb –1. (2) streak – (move quickly in a straight line; ”The plane
streaked across the sky”)


streaked

verb –1. (2) streak – (move quickly in a straight line; ”The plane
streaked across the sky”)
adj –. (2) streaked, streaky – (marked with or as if with stripes or
linear discolorations; ”streaked hair”; ”fat legs and dirty streaky
faces”)


stripe

noun –1. (1) band, banding, stripe – (an adornment consisting of a
strip of a contrasting color or material)
verb –. stripe – (mark with stripes)


striped

verb –. stripe – (mark with stripes)
adj –. (1) striped, stripy – (marked or decorated with stripes)


sunny

adj –. (2) cheery, gay, sunny – (bright and pleasant; promoting a
feeling of cheer; ”a cheery hello”; ”a gay sunny room”; ”a sunny
smile”)


survey

noun –1. (5) survey, study – (a detailed critical inspection)
verb –1. (6) survey, appraise – (consider in a comprehensive way;
”He appraised the situation carefully before acting”)


tarnish

noun –. tarnish – (discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation)
verb –. (1) tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, deﬁle – (make dirty or
spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; ”The silver
was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”; ”Her reputation was
sullied after the aﬀair with a married man”)


tarnished

verb –. (1) tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, deﬁle – (make dirty or
spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; ”The silver
was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”; ”Her reputation was
sullied after the aﬀair with a married man”)


telescope

noun –. telescope, scope – (a magniﬁer of images of distant objects)
verb –1. (1) telescope – (crush together or collapse; ”In the accident,
the cars telescoped”; ”my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into
the backpack”)


tinge

noun –1. touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon – (a
slight but appreciable amount; ”this dish could use a touch of garlic”)
verb –1. tinge, color, colour, distort – (aﬀect as in thought or feeling;
”My personal feelings color my judgment in this case”; ”The sadness
tinged his life”)


tint

noun –. (1) shade, tint, tincture, tone – (a quality of a given color
that diﬀers slightly from another color; ”after several trials he mixed
the shade of pink that she wanted”)
verb –. (1) tint, tinct, tinge, touch – (color lightly; ”her greying hair
was tinged blond”; ”the leaves were tinged red in November”)


transparent

adj –1. (5) crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid,
transparent – (transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
”the cold crystalline water of melted snow”; ”crystal clear skies”;
”could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool”; ”lucid air”; ”a
pellucid brook”; ”transparent crystal”)


twinkle

noun –1. twinkle, scintillation, sparkling – (a rapid change in
brightness; a brief spark or ﬂash)


twinkling

noun –. (1) blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split
second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute – (a very short time
(as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); ”if I had
the chance I’d do it in a flash”)
adj –. (1) twinkling – (shining intermittently with a sparkling light;
”twinkling stars”)


ugly

adj –1. (3) ugly – (displeasing to the senses; ”an ugly face”; ”ugly
furniture”)


ugliness

noun –1. (1) ugliness – (qualities of appearance that do not give
pleasure to the senses)


unattractive

adj –1. (1) unattractive – (lacking beauty or charm; ”as unattractive
as most mining regions”)


view

noun –1. (36) position, view, perspective – (a way of regarding
situations or topics etc.; ”consider what follows from the positivist
view”)
verb –1. (19) see, consider, reckon, view, regard – (deem to be; ”She
views this quite diﬀerently from me”; ”I consider her to be shallow”;
”I don’t see the situation quite as negatively as you do”)


viewpoint

noun –1. (14) point of view, viewpoint, stand, standpoint – (a
mental position from which things are viewed; ”we should consider
this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians”; ”teaching history
gave him a special point of view toward current events”)


visible

adj –1. (14) visible, seeable – (capable of being seen; or open to easy
view; ”a visible object”; ”visible stars”; ”mountains visible in the
distance”; ”a visible change of expression”; ”visible ﬁles”)


vision

noun –1. (13) vision – (a vivid mental image; ”he had a vision of his
own death”)


vista

noun –. (1) view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama – (the
visual percept of a region; ”the most desirable feature of the park are
the beautiful views”)


visual

adj –1. (27) ocular, optic, optical, visual – (relating to or using sight;
”ocular inspection”; ”an optical illusion”; ”visual powers”; ”visual
navigation”)


visualize

verb –1. (4) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, ﬁgure,
picture, image – (imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind; ”I can’t see
him on horseback!”; ”I can see what will happen”; ”I can see a risk in
this strategy”)


watch

noun –1. (9) watch, ticker – (a small portable timepiece)
verb –1. (77) watch – (look attentively; ”watch a basketball game”)


watchful

adj –1. alert, watchful – (engaged in or accustomed to close
observation; ”caught by a couple of alert cops”; ”alert enough to spot
the opportunity when it came”; ”constantly alert and vigilant, like a
sentinel on duty”)


white

noun –1. (10) White, White person, Caucasian – (a member of the
Caucasoid race)
verb –. whiten, white – (turn white; ”This detergent will whiten your
laundry”)
adj –1. (61) white – (being of the achromatic color of maximum
lightness; having little or no hue owing to reﬂection of almost all
incident light; ”as white as fresh snow”; ”a bride’s white dress”)


witness

noun –1. (7) witness, witnesser, informant – (someone who sees an
event and reports what happened)
verb –1. (17) witness – (be a witness to; ”She witnessed the accident
and had to testify in court”)


yellow

noun –. (8) yellow, yellowness – (yellow color or pigment; the
chromatic color resembling the hue of sunﬂowers or ripe lemons)
verb –. (2) yellow – (turn yellow; ”The pages of the book began to
yellow”)
adj –1. (26) yellow, yellowish, xanthous – (of the color intermediate
between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something
resembling the color of an egg yolk)


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