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peaceably, meekly, mildly: When the police explained they only
wanted him to help in their inquiries, he went with them
quietly. 4 modestly, humbly, demurely, unpretentiously,
unostentatiously, unobtrusively, unassumingly, sedately: The
applicants sat quietly, waiting to be called in for the
interview.
quintessence
n. essence, heart, core, quiddity, essentialness, essentiality,
pith, marrow, sum and substance, epitome, nonpareil, embodiment,
personification, model, prototype, exemplar, ideal, beau id‚al,
paragon: Hernandez considered the ancient Greek temple the
quintessence of classic design.
quip n. 1 (bon) mot, witticism, sally, jest, ad lib, joke, gibe,
barb, aphorism, epigram, apophthegm or apothegm, pun, double
entendre, equivoque or equivoke, Colloq gag, one-liner, crack,
wisecrack, wheeze, chestnut: In his worst quip he attributed
the breakdown of his computer to a slipped diskette.
--v. 2 joke, jest, gibe, Colloq wisecrack, US crack wise: As
Mae West quipped, 'It's not the men in my life that count; it's
the life in my men'.
quirk n. peculiarity, caprice, vagary, eccentricity, fancy, twist,
warp, aberration, idiosyncrasy, oddity, kink, characteristic,
crotchet, whim, trick: By some strange quirk of fate, after
weeks in an open boat I was cast ashore at Cap d'Antibes.
quit v. 1 leave, depart from, go (away) from, get away from, decamp,
exit, desert, flee, forsake, abandon, Colloq take off, beat it,
skip: They think that he will try to quit the country if he is
released on bail. 2 resign, give up, relinquish, leave,
renounce, retire from, withdraw from: Would you really quit
your job to sail around the world? 3 cease, stop, discontinue,
leave off, desist from: They would always quit laughing when I
walked into the room.
--adj. 4 free, clear, discharged, rid of, released (from),
exempt (from): When my ex-wife remarried I was quit of the
burden of paying alimony.
quite adv. 1 completely, very, totally, utterly, entirely, from head