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season. b ill, sickly, unhealthy, unwell, not (very) well, not<br />

oneself, not in good or the best shape, in bad shape, Brit off<br />

form, off colour; Colloq under the weather, poorly, not up to<br />

snuff: I was feeling below par. 6 up to par. all right,<br />

adequate, average, satisfactory, good enough, passable,<br />

acceptable, Colloq OK or okay, up to scratch or snuff, fair to<br />

middling: If your game had been up to par, Davis would not have<br />

won.<br />

parable n. allegory, fable, lesson, morality tale: When we first read<br />

Aesop's Fables we didn't know they were parables.<br />

parade n. 1 procession, march, train, file, promenade, cortŠge,<br />

column; entourage: They held a parade to celebrate the<br />

soldiers' safe return from the war. 2 exhibition, (ostentatious)<br />

display, show, spectacle, array, pomp, splash: She often makes<br />

a parade of her knowledge of architecture. 3 promenade, walk,<br />

(pedestrian) way, mall, esplanade: Let's meet in the Parade<br />

when you have finished shopping.<br />

--v. 4 march, pass in review, promenade, walk, file: The<br />

generals saluted smartly as the troops paraded past. 5 strut,<br />

flaunt, show (off), brandish, wave, vaunt, display, air: Why<br />

does he feel it necessary to parade every new girlfriend in<br />

front of all the neighbours?<br />

paradise n. 1 heaven, City of God, Zion, Elysium, Elysian Fields, happy<br />

hunting-grounds, Abraham's bosom, heavenly kingdom, Promised<br />

Land, Celestial City, New Jerusalem, Avalon, Valhalla,<br />

Hesperides, Isles or Islands of the Blessed, seventh heaven:<br />

People all have their own ideas of paradise, but everyone agrees<br />

it's a nice place to be. 2 heaven on earth, (Garden of) Eden,<br />

(land of) Goshen, Utopia, Shangri-La, Land of Beulah: Early<br />

settlers of California thought it a paradise. 3 bliss,<br />

happiness, rapture, heaven, delight, blessedness, ecstasy,<br />

seventh heaven, joy, dreamland, nirvana: Being with you has<br />

been sheer paradise.<br />

paradox n. contradiction, self-contradiction, incongruity,<br />

inconsistency, absurdity, ambiguity, enigma, puzzle, mystery,<br />

quandary, problem, dilemma: Can you explain away Zeno's paradox<br />

of Achilles and the tortoise? The paradox was that although it<br />

was Edward's fifth birthday, he was 20 years old.

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