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is a conservative masquerading as a liberal to garner votes.
mass n. 1 pile, heap, mountain, load, stack, mound, bunch, bundle,
lot, batch, quantity, hoard, store, collection, accumulation,
aggregation, agglomeration, congeries, assortment, miscellany,
assemblage, conglomeration: There was a mass of boulders at the
bottom of the cliff. 2 abundance, quantity, profusion, volume,
multitude, horde, host, mob, crowd, throng, drove(s), herd(s),
swarm(s), legion(s), score(s), number(s), Colloq bunch(es),
ton(s), mountain, piles, bags, barrels, oodles, lots, oceans,
loads, scads, US mess, slew(s): A mass of bills awaited my
return from a trip abroad. Masses of people greeted us at the
airport. 3 block, concretion, chunk, lump, hunk, nugget: A mass
of sludge was clogging the valve. 4 majority, best or better or
greater part, bulk, body, preponderance, almost all, lion's
share: The great mass of the votes was still uncounted. 5
dimension, size, magnitude, bulk, bigness, massiveness,
enormousness, immensity: The very mass of the elephant made it
a hard target to miss. 6 the masses. the common people, the
(common) herd, the proletariat, the plebeians, hoi polloi, the
lower class(es), the man or woman in the street, Brit the man or
woman on the Clapham omnibus, A. N. Other, US John Q. Public,
John or Jane Doe or Roe: The taxes became burdensome and the
masses rebelled.
--v. 7 amass, pile or heap up, gather: Thunderclouds began to
mass over the mountains. 8 aggregate, accumulate, collect,
assemble, congregate, meet, get or come together, gather,
forgather or foregather, throng, convene, flock together, rally,
group, cluster, marshal, muster, mobilize: Thousands of people
massed in front of the embassy. The massed bands made a
tremendous noise.
massacre n. 1 slaughter, slaughtering, carnage, annihilation,
annihilating, blood bath, killing, execution, extermination,
exterminating, butchery, butchering, (mass) murder, murdering,
slaying, liquidation, pogrom, genocide: The massacre of
millions of innocent people followed the coup.
--v. 2 slaughter, annihilate, kill, execute, exterminate,
butcher, murder, slay, liquidate, destroy, eliminate,
obliterate, eradicate, put to the sword, decimate, Colloq mow
down, Slang bump off: It was their policy to massacre all the