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more time to ponder.
ponderous adj. 1 weighty, unwieldy, heavy, massive, huge, big, large,
awkward, clumsy, cumbersome or cumbrous: A ponderous juggernaut
bore down on us, completely out of control. 2 dull, tedious,
laboured, laborious, tiresome, turgid, boring, dreary,
pedestrian, stilted, windy, inflated, long-winded, wordy,
verbose, prolix, elephantine, pompous, grandiloquent, overdone:
Many students faced with textbooks written in ponderous prose
become disenchanted with learning.
pool n. 1 pond, lake, tarn, mere, lagoon; swimming-pool, leisure
pool, wading pool, Brit paddling pool, US wading pool, Formal
natatorium: We found an icy mountain pool where we went for a
swim. 2 collection, fund(s), purse, stakes, reserve(s), bank,
Colloq pot, jackpot, kitty: So far we have too little money in
the pool for an office party at Christmas. 3 syndicate, trust,
group, consortium, cartel, combine: The object of the pool was
the private regulation of market prices, which is illegal.
--v. 4 accumulate, collect, gather, combine, merge,
consolidate, amalgamate, league, bring or come or band or get
together, team (up) with: We would do better if we pooled our
resources.
poor adj. 1 needy, destitute, indigent, in want, in need, penniless,
poverty-stricken, impoverished, badly off, necessitous, poor as
a church-mouse, straitened, pinched, in reduced circumstances,
impecunious, financially embarrassed, down and out, out of
pocket, ruined, insolvent, bankrupt, Colloq broke, hard up, on
one's uppers, short, US wiped out, Brit in Queer Street, Slang
Brit skint: They were poor and didn't know where their next
meal was coming from. 2 low, bad, skimpy, meagre, scant, scanty,
inadequate, deficient, insufficient, sparse: How can a family
of five survive on such a poor salary? These days, 3 per cent
would be considered a poor return on investment. 3 barren,
unproductive, unfruitful, fruitless, infertile, sterile;
depleted, exhausted, impoverished: This is poor soil, and no
amount of cultivation is likely to make it productive. 4 bad,
awful, inadequate, unsatisfactory, unacceptable, bumbling,
inefficient, amateurish, unprofessional, inferior, second-rate,
third-rate, low-grade, shabby, shoddy, mediocre, defective,
faulty, flawed, substandard, sorry, not up to par or snuff,