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informative, instructive, enlightening, edifying, eye-opening,<br />

revelatory, educative: A year spent abroad is always<br />

educational.<br />

5.5 eerie<br />

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eerie adj. frightening, weird, strange, uncanny, ghostly, spectral,<br />

dreadful, unearthly, frightful Poetic or Scots eldritch, Scots<br />

mysterious, Colloq scary, creepy, spooky: I had the eeriest<br />

feeling I was being watched.<br />

5.6 effect...<br />

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effect n. 1 result, consequence, outcome, conclusion, upshot,<br />

aftermath, impact: <strong>The</strong> effects <strong>of</strong> the storm could be seen<br />

everywhere. 2 effectiveness, efficacy, force, power, capacity,<br />

potency, influence, impression, impact, Colloq clout, punch:<br />

His threats had no effect. 3 significance, meaning,<br />

signification, purport, sense, essence, drift, implication,<br />

import, tenor, purpose, intent, intention, object, objective:<br />

She said 'Get lost', or words to that effect. 4 impact,<br />

impression, form, sensation: He didn't mean that, he just said<br />

it for effect. 5 in effect. effectively, virtually, for (all)<br />

practical purposes, so to speak, more or less; actually, in<br />

(point <strong>of</strong>) fact, really, essentially, basically, at bottom, in<br />

truth, truly, to all intents and purposes, at the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />

day, any way you look at it: She always spoke <strong>of</strong> him as her<br />

adopted son and this, in effect, was what he was. 6 take effect.<br />

become operative or operational, come into force, begin or start<br />

to work or function or operate: <strong>The</strong> regulation doesn't take<br />

effect till next week.<br />

--v. 7 bring about, cause, make happen or take place,<br />

effectuate, achieve, accomplish, secure, obtain, make, execute,<br />

carry out, produce, create: <strong>The</strong> opposition was unable to effect<br />

any change in the law.<br />

effective adj. 1 effectual, efficacious, productive; capable, useful,<br />

serviceable, competent, operative, able, functional, efficient:

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