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lax, a. loose, slack, flabby, relaxed; loose, vague, equivocal, doubtful; slack, remiss, negligent; unrestrained, dissolute, licentious.
laxative, a. aperient.
laxative, n. aperient.
laxness, n. laxity, looseness; relaxation, flabbiness; remissness, negligence, slackness.
lay, v. deposit, place; impose, a.s.sess; impute, charge, ascribe, attribute; submit, present, offer; superimpose.
lay, n. song, ballad, lyric.
lay, a. laic, laical.
layer, n. stratum, course, tier.
laymen, n. pl. laity.
lay open. uncover, reveal, expose, disclose, exhibit, show.
lay over. overlay, cover, apply; defer, postpone, prorogue.
lay siege to. besiege, beset, bombard, obsess.
lay to heart. take to heart, be grieved at, feel keenly, consider seriously.
lay up. store, treasure, save, h.o.a.rd, garner; confine, disable.
lay wait for. lie in ambush for.
lay waste. desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate.
laziness, n. indolence, sloth.
lazy, a. indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish. Antonyms: diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking.
lazy person. sluggard, drone, idler.
lea, n. meadow, lay, mead.
leach, v. lixiviate.
leaching, n. lixiviation.
lead, n. _plumb.u.m_ (Chem.); graphite, plumbago (black lead); plummet; blende (mock lead).
lead, v. guide, conduct, escort, direct; precede; induce, entice, influence, allure, persuade, actuate, impel; conduce, contribute, tend; have precedence; have charge of, command, head.
lead, n. precedence, initiative, command, guidance.
lead astray. mislead, seduce.
leader, n. guide, commander, corypheus, pilot, bellwether, protagonist, chief.
leaders.h.i.+p, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy, domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, princ.i.p.al, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). a.s.sociated words: foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation, frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl, acanthus deciduous, indeciduous.
leaf-green, n. chlorophyll.
leaf-stalk, n. petiole.
league, n. alliance, confederation, coalition, confederacy, union, federation, a.s.sociation.
league, v. combine, confederate.
leak, v. percolate, filter, ooze.
leaky, a. defective.
lean, v. incline, slope, recline, tend; rely, depend; careen.
lean, a. thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated, marcid, angular; slender, scant, bare.
leaning, a. reclining, inclining, supine.
leaning, n. inclination, tendency, propensity, bent, bias, p.r.o.neness, predisposition, proclivity; reclination.
lean-to, n. penthouse, addition, shed.
leap, v. spring, jump, vault, bound, caper, gambol, prance, cavort, curvet.
leap, n. spring, jump, vault, bound, capriole.
leaping, a. springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory.
leaping, n. springing, saltation, salience.
leap year. biss.e.xtile.
learn, v. master, acquire knowledge.
learned, a. educated, erudite, lettered, scholarly.
learning, n. education, erudition, lore, scholars.h.i.+p, knowledge.
a.s.sociated Words: savant, philomath, philomathy, misology, oracle, pedant, pedantry.
