The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

--v. 4 soothe, gratify, placate, please, mollify, indulge,
appease, pamper, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, jolly, baby,
spoil: They are trying to humour him because he's in a bad
mood.
hump n. 1 bulge, lump, bump, protuberance, protrusion, projection,
knob, node, mass, hunch, enlargement, swelling, growth,
excrescence, tumefaction, tumescence; mound, barrow, tell,
hummock, hillock, tumulus, Brit dialect tump: Digging into the
hump near the trees, we uncovered an ancient burial-ground.
--v. 2 hunch, arch, curve, crook, bend: Sulking in the corner,
he humped his back and refused to speak to anyone. 3 drag, lug,
haul, carry, heave: She had to hump two heavy suitcases all the
way from the railway station.
hunch n. 1 (intuitive) guess, intuition, feeling, impression,
suspicion, premonition, presentiment: I had a hunch they would
be late. 2 See hump, 1.
--v. 3 See hump, 2.
hunger n. 1 hungriness, emptiness, appetite, ravenousness,
voraciousness, voracity; famine, starvation: We ate leaves to
stave off the pangs of hunger. Some optimists hope to eliminate
hunger from the planet by the year 2000. 2 yearning, desire,
craving, itch, thirst, longing, hankering, mania, cupidity,
Formal cacoethes, Colloq yen: She felt an insatiable hunger for
intellectual companionship.
--v. 3 Usually, hunger for or after. crave, yearn, desire,
thirst, want, hanker, Colloq yen, have a yen: Blessed are they
who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
hungry adj. 1 famished, starved, starving, ravenous, voracious, empty,
hollow, Colloq chiefly Brit peckish: I'm hungry enough to eat a
horse. 2 craving, covetous, eager, avid, greedy, keen,
yearning, desirous, longing, hungering, thirsting, starving,
dying, Colloq hankering: Marooned for years, Crusoe was hungry
for the sight of another human being. 3 acquisitive, greedy,
thirsty, insatiable, deprived: The parched, hungry earth drank
up the rain.