frequently_asked_questions_files/Oxford Thesaurus.pdf

US palisade: Soaring above us was a huge crag that we still had
to climb.
cram v. 1 pack, stuff, overstuff, overcrowd, jam, fill: The car was
crammed to the top with suitcases. 2 study, burn the midnight
oil, Literary lucubrate, Colloq grind, Brit swot: Bob can't go
out because he's cramming for an exam.
cramped adj. tight, crowded, incommodious, uncomfortable, close: The
tiny cabin was too cramped to hold all of us at once.
crank n. 1 eccentric, character, oddity, Colloq nut; Slang Brit
nutter, nutcase: Pay no attention to Jason, he's just a crank.
2 monomaniac, zealot, fanatic: The restaurant is patronized
mainly by health-food cranks.
cranky adj. 1 eccentric, odd, weird, strange, queer, peculiar, quirky,
capricious, whimsical: He's a cranky old bird who hardly goes
out at all. 2 testy, grouchy, crabby, short-tempered, surly,
irascible, waspish, churlish, gruff, curmudgeonly, cantankerous,
choleric, snappish, petulant, peevish, contentious, querulous,
irritable, splenetic, Colloq crotchety: He's always cranky
before breakfast.
cranny n. chink, crevice, crack, fissure, check, fracture, break,
furrow, split, cleft: Flowers grew from the crannies in the
ancient wall.
crash v. 1 fall, topple: The vase crashed onto the stone floor. 2
force, drive, run, smash: He crashed the car into a wall. 3
bang, boom, explode: The thunder crashed all around us.
--n. 4 boom, bang, smash, explosion, blast: We heard a great
crash as the building collapsed. 5 disaster, collapse, failure:
The stock-market crash has had a devastating effect.
crawl v. 1 creep, worm, wriggle, wiggle, squirm; edge: A spider is
crawling on your collar. 2 inch, creep, drag: For a solid hour
the cars just crawled along at a snail's pace. 3 cower, cringe,
grovel, toady, fawn: Don't worry, he'll soon come crawling,
begging you to take him back. 4 teem, abound, swarm, be overrun
or swamped: The scene of the crime crawled with police.