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meeting, get-together, round table, powwow, Colloq confab,
huddle, chin-wag: The annual palaver of the regional general
managers is scheduled for next week.
--v. 4 chatter, babble, jabber, blather or blether, gossip,
prattle, prate, chit-chat, gabble, Brit natter, witter, Colloq
jaw, chin-wag, US and Canadian shoot the breeze, Slang yack,
yackety-yack: Peter and I were palavering outside the
supermarket when Sophie came along. 5 confer, consult, discuss,
parley, talk, converse, powwow, meet, get together, sit down
(together), confabulate, negotiate, Colloq confab, huddle, chew
the fat or the rag: Management and union representatives will
palaver tomorrow.
pale° adj. 1 colourless, white, wan, sallow, waxen, livid, ashen,
ashy, pallid, bloodless, whitish, pasty, whey-faced, washed out,
anaemic, blanched, drained, ghostly, ghastly, peaky or peakish,
peaked, cadaverous: If you had been through an ordeal like
that, you'd look pale, too. 2 faint, light, dim, washed out,
pastel: She was wearing a pale green evening gown tonight. 3
feeble, weak, flimsy, meagre, enfeebled, ineffective,
ineffectual, puny, insignificant, paltry, lame, poor,
inadequate, half-hearted, tame, spiritless, whey-faced, empty,
sterile, lifeless, uninspired, anaemic, Colloq half-baked: The
sequel was a pale imitation of the original film.
--v. 4 blanch, blench, dim, whiten: He paled when they told
him of the car crash. 5 diminish, lessen, fade (away),
decrease, abate: The works of most modern writers pale in
comparison with those of the Elizabethans.
paleý n. 1 paling, palisade, picket, upright, post, stake: The pales
are attached to horizontal rails to form a fence. 2 boundary,
limit(s), restriction, bounds, border(s), confines: Nothing is
outside the pale of the imagination of a great novelist. 3
beyond the pale. improper, irregular, unseemly, unsuitable,
indecent, unacceptable, inadmissible, forbidden, anathema,
disallowed, prohibited, verboten, interdicted; US unusual,
bizarre, peculiar, outr‚, weird, abnormal, strange: The
committee have found your behaviour to be beyond the pale,
Frances, and we demand your resignation.
pall° n. 1 shroud, covering, mantle, cloth, veil: A black velvet