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trended more to the left <strong>of</strong> centre.<br />

trendy adj. 1 fashionable, stylish, … la mode, modern, up to date, up<br />

to the minute, in vogue, voguish, all the rage, Slang hot, now,<br />

with it, groovy, in the groove, in, flash: Sibyl travels with<br />

that trendy set from Belgravia.<br />

--n. 2 show-<strong>of</strong>f, clothes-horse, coxcomb, exhibitionist, Slang<br />

Brit pseud, grandstander: Don't you just hate those trendies<br />

down at Cole's wine bar?<br />

trial n. 1 test, testing, experiment, pro<strong>of</strong>, try-out, trying out,<br />

trial run, examination, check, checking, Colloq dry run: <strong>The</strong><br />

trials <strong>of</strong> the new life-jackets are to be conducted soon. 2<br />

hearing, enquiry or inquiry, examination, inquisition,<br />

litigation, judicial proceeding, lawsuit, contest: Throughout<br />

the trial, the accused protested his innocence. 3 try, attempt,<br />

endeavour, effort, venture, essay, Colloq go, shot, stab, fling,<br />

whirl, crack, whack: This was their first trial at climbing the<br />

north face. 4 trouble, affliction, tribulation, hardship,<br />

adversity, suffering, grief, woe, misery, distress, bad or hard<br />

luck, misfortune, hard times: Mona acknowledged the trial <strong>of</strong><br />

having ten children and no husband. 5 nuisance, irritation,<br />

bother, bane, annoyance, pest, irritant, thorn in the flesh or<br />

side, US bur or burr under the saddle, Colloq plague, hassle,<br />

pain (in the neck), headache, Taboo slang pain in the Brit arse<br />

or US ass: William, who is full <strong>of</strong> mischief, is a constant<br />

trial to his mother.<br />

--adj. 6 sample, experimental, exploratory, provisional,<br />

probationary, tentative, conditional, pilot: Will you consider<br />

a trial subscription to Verbatim, <strong>The</strong> Language Quarterly?<br />

tribe n. race, stock, strain, nation, breed, people, seed, (ethnic)<br />

group, gens, clan, blood, pedigree, family, sept, dynasty,<br />

house; caste, class: It was important in that society to marry<br />

someone from the same tribe.<br />

tribunal n. court (<strong>of</strong> justice), bar, bench, judiciary, Inquisition, Star<br />

Chamber: Should he be tried before a judicial tribunal or<br />

pilloried by the tribunal <strong>of</strong> public opinion?<br />

tributary n. branch, <strong>of</strong>fshoot, streamlet, feeder, brook, rivulet, run,

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