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  • 91flat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. level, smooth, plane; even, flush; positive, exact; dull, stale, insipid; slang, penniless. See horizontal, certainty, poverty, insipidity. n. plain, shoal; apartment (see abode).Ant., curved,… …

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  • 92horizontal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Parallel to the earth s surface Nouns 1. horizontality, horizontalness, flatness; level, plane; stratum (see layer); horizon, azimuth; recumbency, lying down, reclination, proneness, supination,… …

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  • 93prone — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inclined, disposed, likely, predisposed; recumbent, flat, prostrate, horizontal. See possibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Inclined] Syn. inclined, predisposed, apt; see likely 4 . 2. [Lying down] …

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  • 94prostrate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. recumbent, prone, flat, supine; debased, abased, humbled; helpless, powerless, resigned. See horizontal. v. t. debase, abase, flatten; bow, submit. See dejection, lowness, servility. II (Roget s IV) …

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  • 95recumbent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lying, reclining, leaning. See obliquity, horizontal. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. reclining, prostrate, lying down; see lying 4 , supine 1 . See Synonym Study at supine . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 96creeping — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of creeping] Syn. crawling, worming, squirming, writhing, wriggling, slithering, groveling, crouching, cowering, quailing, slinking, skulking, inching, dragging, lagging, shambling, limping, faltering, shuffling …

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  • 97lying — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of lying] Syn. untruthful, falsifying, prevaricating, swearing falsely, committing perjury, fibbing, misstating, misrepresenting, inventing, dissimuLating, equivocating, malingering. Ant. frank*, truthful,… …

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  • 98decumbent — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Lying down: flat, horizontal, procumbent, prone, prostrate, recumbent. See HORIZONTAL …

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  • 99Horizontality — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Horizontality >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 horizontality horizontality Sgm: N 1 flatness flatness Sgm: N 1 level level plane Sgm: N 1 stratum stratum &c. 204 Sgm: N 1 dead level dead level …

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  • 100humifusa —   L. procumbent. Culms prostrate …

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