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Jab, n. (Colloq.) thrust, punch, dig.
jabber, n. gibberish, chatter, gabble, babble.--v. gabble, gibber, babble, chatter.
jackass, n. donkey; dolt, simpleton, witling, ignoramus, fool.
jacket, n. coat, jerkin, blouse, spencer, bolero, pea-jacket sontag, blazer, sweater, reefer, jersey, jumper, cardigan jacket, grego, garibaldi, camisole, temiak (Eskimo); cleading.
jade, n. nephrite, jadeite; nag, plug; hussy, wench, quean.
jag, n. notch, cleft, barb, protuberance.--v. notch.
jagged, a. cleft, jaggy, notched, serrated, erose, sharp.
jail, n. prison, lockup, calaboose, workhouse, limbo.
jail bird. prisoner.
jailer, n. warden, turnkey, sheriff.
jail fever. typhus fever.
jam, n. preserve, conserve; crowd, throng, crush.
jam, v. squeeze, crowd, press, wedge in, bruise.
jamboree, n. (Slang) carousal, revelry, carouse, spree.
jangle, n. clashing, clang, discord, dissonance; wrangling, quarrel, dispute, altercation.
jangle, v. clash, clang; quarrel, wrangle, dispute, altercate.
jangling, a. discordant, dissonant, clashing, inharmonious.
janitor, n. doorkeeper, porter, concierge; (female) janitress, janitrix.
Japan, n. Nippon, Flowery Kingdom. Associated words: Japanese, geisha, coolie, Mikado, samurai, shizoku, heimin, kwazoku, Mongol, Mongolian, kimono, Dairi, daimio, saki, Tycoon, Shogun.
japan, n. lacquer, varnish, enamel.
jar, n. crock; gurglet; shock, jolt, vibration.--v. jolt, jounce, shock, discompose, unsettle; grate.
jargon, n. gibberish, drivel, babble, gabble, twaddle, bosh; cant, slang, flash, argot, dialect.
jaundice, n. icterus.--v. prejudice.
jaundiced, a. prejudiced, biased, warped.
jaunty, a. airy, showy, finical, affected, fine.
jaw, n. Jawbone, jowl; maxilla (upper jaw); mandible (lower jaw).
jaw, v. (Low) scold, upbraid, berate, clamor, rail at.
jawless, a. agnathic, agnathous.
jaw muscle. masseter.
jayhawker, n. guerrilla.
jealous, a. suspicious, distrustful.
jealousy, n. suspicion, distrust.
jeer, v. mock, deride, ridicule, taunt, jibe.
jeering, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, scoffing, sneer, taunt.
jellylike, a. gelatinous, colloid.
jeopard, v. imperil, risk, expose, endanger, hazard.
jeopardize, v. jeopard.
jeopardy, n. danger, peril, hazard, exposure.
jerk, v. twitch, yerk.
jerked beef. charqui.
jerky, a. abrupt, unconnected.
jest, n. joke, witticism, quip, jeu d' esprit, Joe Miller.
jest, v. joke.
jester, n. joker, wag; buffoon, merry-andrew, clown, harlequin, zany.
jesting, n. joking, jest, raillery, banter, persiflage, facetiousness, badinage, jocularity.
jesting, a. waggish, jocular, facetious, sportive.
jet, v. spurt, spout, gush; protrude, project.--n. spouting, spurt, gush.
Jew, n. Hebrew, Israelite, Judahite, Judean, Semite, Yid; Rabbi, Sadducee, Pharisee, Levite. Associated words: Yiddish, ghetto, kosher, tref, Talmud, kittel, sephardic, Sanhedrim, synagogue, Jewry, Judaism, judaize.
Jewish, a. Hebrew, Judaic, Israelitish, Hebraic, Semitic.
Jewish beggar. schnorrer.
Jewish marriage broker. schatchen.
jewelry, n. jewels; bijoutry.
Jew's pitch. asphaltum, bitumen.
Jezebel, n.virago, she-devil, fury, Gorgon, termagant.
jibe, v. (Colloq.) agree, harmonize, fit.
jiffy, n. (Colloq.)moment, instant, second, trice.
jill, n. coquette, flirt; sweetheart, gill.
jingle, n. tinkling, jingling, tintinnabulation; rhyme.--v. tinkle.
job, n. task; situation, position.
jocose, a. facetious, waggish, sportive, merry, jocular, humorous.
jocular, a. jesting, jocose, sportive, merry, waggish.
jocularity, n. jesting, waggishness, waggery, facetiousness, drollery.
jog, n. shake, jolt, jar, shove; hitch, break.
jog, v. push, shake, jostle; suggest to, notify, remind.
johnny cake. hoecake, corncake.
join, v. connect, couple, unite, combine, associate, add, append, annex, link, conjoin, mortise, dowel, splice, knit, dovetail, mingle, coalesce, unify, confederate; abut. Antonyms: disjoin, disconnect. See separate.
joiner, n. link, coupling, bond; woodworker, carpenter.
joint, n. gimbal joint, dove-tail joint, joggle joint, mortise joint, miter, dowel, scarf joint, rabbet joint.
joint, n. articulation; suture, commissure, knuckle. Associated words: arthrology, arthrography, synosteology arthrectomy, synovia, articular, bursa, synovial, internode, internodal, anchylose, dislocate, dislocation, luxate, luxation.
joint, a. combined, joined, united.
jointed, a. articulated, hinged; knotted, gnarled.
jointless, a. acondylous, anarthrous, inarticulate.
joke, n. jest, witticism, jocosity, sally, jeu d'esprit, quip, quirk, Joe Miller.
joking, n. jesting, rallying, banter, persiflage, jocularity, waggishness.
jokingly, adv. sportively, jestingly, waggishly, jocularly.
jolly, a. jovial, vivacious, congenial, convivial, mirthful, sportive, gay, facetious, boon, waggish, jocular, jocose, witty, blithe, sprightly, cheery.
jolly, v. (Colloq.) make good-natured, joke, jest, cheer, encourage.
jolt, n. jar, shock, jounce, jolting.--v. shake, jar, jounce.
jot, n. iota, point, tittle, bit, mite, atom, scintilla, ace, particle, whit.
jotting, n. memorandum, note, entry.
jounce, n. jolt, shake, jolting.--v. jolt, shake, jar.
journal, n. day-book, daily register, record; diary; periodical, publication, magazine, gazette, ephemeris.
journey, n. trip, tour, pilgrimage, excursion, travel, jaunt, peregrination. Associated words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.
journeyman, n. handicraftsman, artisan. Antonyms: apprentice, amateur.
joust, v. tilt.
Jove, n. Jupiter.
jovial, a. jolly, mirthful, gay, merry, sportive, hilarious, gleeful.
joviality, n. gayety, jollity, sportiveness, liveliness.
joy, n. gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee, elation, merriment.
joyful, a. joyous, glad, elated, jubilant, exhilarating, happy, buoyant, merry, encouraging, felicitous.
joyous, a. joyful.
jubilant, a. joyful, exultant, triumphant.
jubilation, n. rejoicing, exultation, triumph.
Judas, n. betrayer, traitor.
Judas, a. traitorous, treacherous, disloyal, perfidious.
judge, v. adjudge, adjudicate, try; discern, distinguish, discriminate, decide; esteem, think, consider, reckon, deem, regard; arbitrate.
judge, n. justice, judger; arbitrator, arbiter, umpire, referee; connoisseur, critic; puisne; deemster (Isle of Man). Associated words: judicial, judicially, judicable, judicatory, judicature, judiciary.
judges, n. pl. judiciary.
judgment, n. decision, adjudication, arbitrament, arbitration, adjudgment; sentence, decree, verdict; discrimination, discernment.
judgment-seat, n. court, tribunal, bar, judicatory.
judicial, a. judicative, judicatory, juridical, judiciary.
judicious, a. prudent, discreet, well-advised.
jug, n. pitcher, ewer, demijohn, flagon; bellarmine, long-beard.
juggler, n. prestidigitator, magician, conjurer; cheat, impostor; jongleur.
jugglery, n. sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring; imposture, trickery, hankey-pankey.
juicy, a. succulent, sappy, lush, luscious. Antonyms: juiceless, sapless, dry.
jumble, v. confuse, disarrange, entangle, mix
jumble, n. disorder, confusion, disarray, mixture, entanglement, chaos, hodgepodge.
jump, v. spring, bound, leap, hop, caper, vault; bounce, jolt.
jump, n. leap, spring, bound, hop, vault, caper, jolt.
junction, n. union, coalition; juncture.
juncture, n. joint, seam; crisis, conjuncture, point, exigency.
jungle, n. thicket, brake, boscage, brush.
junket, n. delicacy, sweetmeat; feast, banquet.--v. feast, banquet, regale, entertain.
junta, n. council, tribunal, assembly, convention.
junto, n. secret council, cabal, clique, faction.
jury, n. Associated words: impanel, panel, venire, venire, facias, tales, talesman.
juryman, n. juror.
just, a. upright, honest, conscientious, honorable, straightforward; condign, merited, deserved, due; reasonable, conscionable, equitable, fair; unbiased, impartial correct, exact, accurate, proper, appropriate. Antonyms: dishonest, inequitable, undeserved. See unjust.
just, adv. precisely, exactly; closely, nearly, almost; barely, scarcely, only.
justice, n. justness, quity, impartiality; judge. Antonyms: inequity, injustice.
justifiable, a. warrantable, defensible, vindicable.
justification, n. vindication, exuplpation, exoneration, defense.
justifier, n. justificatior, vindicator, defender.
justify, v. vindicate, warrant, excuse, exonorate, exculpate, absolve, defend.
justle, v. clash, bump, jostle, collide.
justly, adv. honestly, fairly, equitably, impartially.
justness, n. justice, fairness, equity, impartiality, condignness.
jut, v. jut out, project, protrude.--n. projection, jutt.
jutting, a. projecting, protruding.
jutting out projection, projecture, protrusion
jutty, n. pier, mole, jetty.
juvenile, a. youthful, young, immature.
juvenility, n. youthfulness, immaturity.