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, assess; 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, hoard, 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. _plumbum_ (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.
leadership, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy,
domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, principal, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). Associated
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, association.
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.
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