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land: We have been lumbered with looking after our neighbours'<br />

six cats.<br />

luminous adj. 1 shiny, shining, bright, brilliant, lighted (up), lit<br />

(up), illuminated, radiant, alight, resplendent, lustrous,<br />

gleaming, shimmering, glistening, sparkling, dazzling,<br />

refulgent, effulgent: The moon shone with a luminous beauty. 2<br />

glowing, aglow, luminescent, incandescent, phosphorescent,<br />

fluorescent: He had a watch with luminous hands. 3 clear,<br />

lucid, perspicuous, percipient, perspicacious, penetrating,<br />

discerning, perceptive, clear-eyed, clear-headed, keen, acute,<br />

sharp, explicit, incisive, specific, express; understandable,<br />

intelligible: His latest novel provides another example of his<br />

luminous style.<br />

lump° n. 1 mass, piece, gob, gobbet, clod, chunk, clot, wad, clump,<br />

hunk, nugget; cube, wedge, cake: There was a lump of earth was<br />

clogging the drain. May I have two lumps of sugar, please? 2<br />

bump, growth, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, prominence,<br />

bulge, excrescence, tumescence, nodule, knob; wen, cyst, boil,<br />

carbuncle, blister, wart, corn: You ought to see a doctor about<br />

that lump on your foot.<br />

--v. 3 Often, lump together. combine, join, consolidate,<br />

collect, bunch, group, unite, mass, aggregate, blend, mix, throw<br />

or put together: Don't lump me together with everyone else,<br />

without even asking my opinion.<br />

lumpý v. Usually, lump it. allow, tolerate, suffer, put up with,<br />

bear, stand, brook, endure: I'm afraid you'll just have to lump<br />

it, whether you like it or not.<br />

lumpy adj. chunky, bumpy, uneven, granular, grainy: Mix the batter<br />

till it is no longer lumpy.<br />

lunacy n. 1 madness, insanity, dementia, craziness, derangement,<br />

psychosis, mania: Formerly, it was believed that lunacy<br />

fluctuated in accordance with the phases of the moon. 2 folly,<br />

foolishness, bad or poor judgement, illogicality, illogic,<br />

senselessness, ridiculousness, irrationality, foolhardiness,<br />

stupidity: It would be sheer lunacy to confess to something you<br />

did not do.

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