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season. b ill, sickly, unhealthy, unwell, not (very) well, not
oneself, not in good or the best shape, in bad shape, Brit off
form, off colour; Colloq under the weather, poorly, not up to
snuff: I was feeling below par. 6 up to par. all right,
adequate, average, satisfactory, good enough, passable,
acceptable, Colloq OK or okay, up to scratch or snuff, fair to
middling: If your game had been up to par, Davis would not have
won.
parable n. allegory, fable, lesson, morality tale: When we first read
Aesop's Fables we didn't know they were parables.
parade n. 1 procession, march, train, file, promenade, cortŠge,
column; entourage: They held a parade to celebrate the
soldiers' safe return from the war. 2 exhibition, (ostentatious)
display, show, spectacle, array, pomp, splash: She often makes
a parade of her knowledge of architecture. 3 promenade, walk,
(pedestrian) way, mall, esplanade: Let's meet in the Parade
when you have finished shopping.
--v. 4 march, pass in review, promenade, walk, file: The
generals saluted smartly as the troops paraded past. 5 strut,
flaunt, show (off), brandish, wave, vaunt, display, air: Why
does he feel it necessary to parade every new girlfriend in
front of all the neighbours?
paradise n. 1 heaven, City of God, Zion, Elysium, Elysian Fields, happy
hunting-grounds, Abraham's bosom, heavenly kingdom, Promised
Land, Celestial City, New Jerusalem, Avalon, Valhalla,
Hesperides, Isles or Islands of the Blessed, seventh heaven:
People all have their own ideas of paradise, but everyone agrees
it's a nice place to be. 2 heaven on earth, (Garden of) Eden,
(land of) Goshen, Utopia, Shangri-La, Land of Beulah: Early
settlers of California thought it a paradise. 3 bliss,
happiness, rapture, heaven, delight, blessedness, ecstasy,
seventh heaven, joy, dreamland, nirvana: Being with you has
been sheer paradise.
paradox n. contradiction, self-contradiction, incongruity,
inconsistency, absurdity, ambiguity, enigma, puzzle, mystery,
quandary, problem, dilemma: Can you explain away Zeno's paradox
of Achilles and the tortoise? The paradox was that although it
was Edward's fifth birthday, he was 20 years old.