(n) a schematic or preliminary plan

(n) an elaborate and systematic plan of action

(n) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

(n) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

(n) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"

(v) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

(v) devise a system or form a scheme for

(n) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

(v) express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"

(s) having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"

(s) as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"

(s) very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

(s) very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect"

(s) intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"

(s) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent pene

(n) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

(n) a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

(s) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

(a) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

(s) not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"

(s) given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and

(s) having political or social views favoring reform and progress

(n) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

(n) a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"

(v) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!"

(n) the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

(n) something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea); "a rising tide of popular interest"

(n) there are usually two high and two low tides each day

(v) be carried with the tide

(v) cause to float with the tide

(v) rise or move foward; "surging waves"

(v) adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"

(v) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"

(v) show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"

(v) show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"

(v) let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"