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quack n. 1 charlatan, impostor, pretender, fake(r), fraud, Colloq
phoney or US also phony: The quack diagnosed Franny as having
appendicitis, but it turned out that she was pregnant.

--adj. 2 fake, fraudulent, sham, counterfeit, Colloq phoney or
US also phony: Are you still going to see that quack doctor -
the one who told you to take aspirin to relieve the pain from
your ulcer?

quaint adj. 1 curious, odd, strange, bizarre, peculiar, unusual,
queer, uncommon, singular, unorthodox, eccentric, whimsical,
offbeat, fanciful, outlandish, unconventional, fantastic: Her
sitting-room was furnished in a quaint mixture of Gothic and
Victorian styles. 2 old-fashioned, archaic, antiquated,

out-dated, picturesque, antique: A rotund little figure
appeared, dressed in the quaint clothing of another era.

quake v. 1 tremble, shake, quiver, shudder; vibrate, stagger: The
children were quaking with fear that their teacher would come
back and catch them red-handed. 2 earthquake, tremor, temblor or
trembler or tremblor, seismic(al) activity, Rare seism: In a
few moments the quake levelled three cities that had stood for
thousands of years.


qualification
n. 1 Often, qualifications. fitness, ability, aptitude,
capability, competence or competency, capacity, suitableness,
suitability, eligibility, proficiency, skill, knowledge, Colloq
know-how: You cannot persuade me that Powell has the
qualifications needed to do the job. 2 limitation, restriction,
modification, reservation, caveat, condition, stipulation,
proviso, prerequisite, requirement: The only qualification for
use of the club's facilities is that one must be a member. My
support for the proposal is without qualification.

qualified adj. 1 able, suitable, capable, competent, fit, fitted,
equipped, prepared, ready, trained, proficient, accomplished,
expert, talented, adept, skilful, skilled, experienced,
practised, knowledgeable, well-informed: Is Kimble qualified to
become foreman? 2 contingent, conditional, restricted,
modified, limited, provisional: The chairman has given his
qualified approval to the scheme.


qualify v. 1 equip, fit (out), ready, prepare, condition, make
eligible; certify: His training in the air force qualified him
to be a pilot. 2 be eligible, meet the requirements, be fit or
suitable or equipped or ready or prepared, make the grade: Sue
will qualify as a doctor if she passes just one more exam. 3
temper, mitigate, modify, moderate, modulate, restrict, limit:
In light of their later behaviour, I shall have to qualify my
recommendation that you accept them as students.

quality n. 1 property, attribute, characteristic, mark, distinction, je
ne sais quoi, trait: Can you describe the qualities needed to
be a good musician? 2 grade, calibre, rank, status, importance,
value, worth: In the curiosity shop items of high and low
quality are mixed together haphazardly. 3 Old-fashioned

eminence, prominence, importance, excellence, superiority,
distinction, standing, supremacy, dignity, grandeur, nobility,
blue blood: Despite her shabby appearance, from her bearing and
speech the woman was clearly a person of quality.


qualm n. second thought, doubt, uncertainty, misgiving, hesitation,
scruple, uneasiness, compunction, reluctance, disinclination,
queasiness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, twinge, pang, worry,
concern, Colloq funny feeling, sinking feeling: He had some
qualms about leaving the town where he had lived for over thirty
years.

quandary n. dilemma, predicament, difficulty, plight, cleft stick,
uncertainty: The management is in a quandary: should it risk
overstretching the company by making further capital investment,
or should it risk being left behind by its competitors by
playing safe?

quantity n. amount, extent, volume; sum, number, total; weight, measure:
There seemed to be no limit to the quantity of gold in the mine.
The person who most accurately guesses the quantity of beans in
the jar wins a prize. What quantity of flour should I buy to
make enough cakes for fifty people?


quarrel n. 1 dispute, argument, disagreement, debate, controversy,
discord, difference (of opinion), contention, misunderstanding;
wrangle, tiff, row, squabble, altercation, set-to, scuffle,
feud, fight, fray, fracas, brawl, Donnybrook, mˆl‚e or melee,
riot, battle (royal), Colloq dust-up, barney, scrap, US spat: I
have no quarrel with my accountant - it's the tax man that's the
problem. A quarrel broke out over whose turn it was to wash the
dishes.

--v. 2 argue, disagree, dispute, altercate, have an
altercation, differ, wrangle, be at odds or loggerheads, clash,
squabble, feud, fight, brawl, battle, Colloq fall out, scrap:
When we were children, my sister and I quarrelled all the time,
but we still loved each other.


quarrelsome
adj. testy, petulant, irascible, irritable, disagreeable,
fractious, querulous, peevish, cross, choleric, curmudgeonly,
contrary, dyspeptic, cranky, grouchy, argumentative, combative,

squabbling, disputatious, hostile, antagonistic, dissentious,
dissentient, dissident, pugnacious, bellicose, belligerent,
contentious: I have to listen to the continual bickering of my
quarrelsome neighbours.


quarryฐ n. prey, game, prize, object: The hunter's dogs had run their
quarry to ground. Wealthy widows were regarded as fair quarry by
the swindlers.


quarry n. 1 mine, pit, excavation: Only one quarry yielded the
statuary marble needed by those sculptors.

--v. 2 mine, extract, obtain, get: Gault's ideas were all
quarried from the jottings of obscure writers.


quarter n. 1 fourth: Statistics showed that a quarter of the
population attended church regularly. 2 three-month period,
three months, ninety days, thirteen weeks; fifteen minutes;
phase (of the moon), quadrature: The first quarter's rent is
now due. We waited a quarter of an hour. The moon is in its
third quarter. 3 area, region, part, section, district, zone,
division, territory, place, neighbourhood, locality, locale,
location, point, spot; direction: The army was called in to
patrol the quarter of the city where looting had occurred. It
was difficult to tell from which quarter the wind was blowing. 4
mercy, compassion, mercifulness, clemency, leniency,
forgiveness, favour, humanity, pity: The hostages expected no
quarter from their captors. 5 quarters. living quarters,
lodging(s), dwelling-place, dwelling, accommodation(s), rooms,
chambers, residence, shelter, habitation, domicile, home, house,
abode; Military billet, barracks, cantonment, casern or caserne:
We found comfortable quarters in which we remained during our
stay in the area.


--v. 6 lodge, accommodate, house, board, shelter, put up;
Military billet, post, station: The tour guide stayed at the
best hotel, while we were quartered in a youth hostel.

quarterly adj. 1 trimonthly, three-monthly: She is editor of a quarterly
medical journal.

--adv. 2 every three months, every ninety days, every thirteen
weeks, four times a year: The landlady insisted on being paid

quarterly, in advance.

quash v. 1 annul, nullify, void, declare or render null and void,
invalidate, revoke, vacate, set aside, rescind, cancel, reject,
throw out, reverse, overthrow, discharge, overrule: When the
real culprit confessed, my conviction was quashed and I was set
free. 2 suppress, subdue, quell, put down, squelch, repress,
overthrow, crush, overwhelm: The rebellion was quashed by the
secret police.


quasi- adv. 1 Sometimes, quasi. as if, as it were, seemingly,
apparently, partly, to some extent, to all intents and purposes,
more or less, virtually, almost: Her apology seemed only
quasi-sincere to me. His function in the proceedings was
quasi-judicial.

--adj. 2 Often, quasi. so to speak, kind of, sort of;
pretended, fake, pseudo, so-called, supposed, artificial, mock,
sham, Colloq phoney or US also phony: His quasi excuse does not
diminish the horror of what he did.

quaver v. 1 tremble, quiver, shake, shiver, vibrate, waver, shudder,
fluctuate, oscillate, flutter: His voice quavered with emotion
as he described his rescue.


--n. 2 trembling, tremble, quiver, quivering, tremor, shaking,
vibration, wavering, break, fluctuation, oscillation: Only a
slight quaver in her voice betrayed her feeling of panic.


queasy adj. 1 uncomfortable, uneasy, nervous, apprehensive, ill at
ease, troubled, worried, discomfited; doubtful, hesitant: I had
a queasy feeling that I was being watched. The manager was a bit
queasy about giving Denis so much responsibility. 2 sick,
nauseous, nauseated, ill, bilious, queer, Colloq green around or
about the gills, groggy, woozy: Catherine felt very queasy
after the ride on the roller coaster.

queen n. 1 sovereign, monarch, ruler; empress; queen consort; queen
mother; queen dowager: She was absolutely thrilled when she was
invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace and met the
Queen. 2 beauty queen, movie queen, star, prima donna, diva;
epitome, model, idol, leading light, cynosure, leader: At the
height of her career, she was known as 'the Queen of the Silver

Screen'. 'Queen of the Antilles' was once a nickname of Cuba.

queer adj. 1 odd, strange, different, peculiar, funny, curious,
uncommon, unconventional, unorthodox, atypical, singular,
exceptional, anomalous, extraordinary, unusual, weird, bizarre,
uncanny, unnatural, freakish, remarkable, offbeat, irregular,
unparalleled, incongruous, outlandish, outr‚, exotic, eccentric,
fey, quaint, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, unexampled: How do
you explain Basil's queer behaviour at the office party? Her
attire could only be described as queer, given her age and
status. 2 questionable, dubious, suspicious, suspect, doubtful,
puzzling, mysterious, Colloq fishy, shady: We had a feeling
that something queer was going on when the clocks started
running backwards. 3 (slightly) ill, queasy, sick, unwell,
poorly, faint, uneasy, dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, light-headed:
It's not surprising that you feel queer after drinking all that
wine. 4 mad, unbalanced, unhinged, demented, deranged, insane,
daft, touched, Colloq dotty, potty, nutty, nuts, loony, batty,
cracked: Francis seems to have gone a bit queer - fancies
himself a reincarnation of Cicero.

--v. 5 ruin, spoil, bungle, botch, muddle, muff, mar, wreck,
destroy, Colloq make a hash or mess of, gum up (the works),
Slang muck up, screw up, louse up, US ball up, Taboo slang Brit
balls up: Grimstone queered the deal by telling the buyer the
company was worth half what we were asking.

quell v. 1 suppress, put down, repress, subdue, quash, overcome,
crush, squelch: The army arrived to quell the uprising at the
prison. 2 moderate, mollify, soothe, assuage, alleviate,
mitigate, allay, quiet, calm; pacify, tranquillize, compose:
Any feelings of bitterness were quelled by her comforting words.

quench v. 1 satisfy, slake, sate, surfeit, satiate, allay, appease:
My thirst isn't quenched by those sweet fizzy drinks. 2 put
out, extinguish, douse, smother, snuff out, stifle, kill,
destroy, suppress, squelch, repress, overcome, subdue: Even the
most totalitarian regime cannot entirely quench the fire of
freedom in the hearts of the oppressed.


querulous adj. complaining, carping, critical, criticizing,
hypercritical, fault-finding, finicky, finical, fussy,
over-particular, censorious, petulant, whining, murmuring,

grumbling, peevish, testy, touchy, irritable, irritated,
annoyed, piqued, in a pique, irascible, fractious, perverse,
quarrelsome, ill-natured, ill-humoured, cantankerous,
curmudgeonly, crusty, crotchety, fretful, bad-tempered,
ill-tempered, waspish, crabby, cross, splenetic, choleric, sour,
dyspeptic, grumpy, Colloq grousing, pernickety or US also
persnickety, Slang bitching: He objected to almost all the
television programmes and sent querulous letters to the
broadcasters telling them so.


query n. 1 question, inquiry or enquiry: The information office will
answer any query you may have about social security benefits. 2
doubt, uncertainty, scepticism, reservation, problem: She wants
to see the manager about some query concerning her bank balance.


--v. 3 ask (about), inquire or enquire (about), question;
challenge, doubt, dispute: I am writing to query the third item
on your latest bill.


quest n. 1 search, pursuit, exploration, expedition, voyage (of
discovery), pilgrimage, mission, crusade; chase, hunt: When a
child, he was inspired by the legend of Sir Launcelot's quest
for the Holy Grail.


--v. 2 Usually, quest after or for. seek (after or for), search
after or for, hunt (for), track down, pursue, stalk: In 1928,
joined by his father, he quested for gold along the Orinoco
river.


question n. 1 query, inquiry or enquiry: I asked you a simple question,
'Where were you last night?', and I expect a civil answer. 2
problem, difficulty, confusion, doubt, dubiousness, uncertainty,
query, mystery, puzzle: Is there some question about the
qualifications of the new employee? 3 matter, issue, point,
subject, topic, theme, proposition: Whether you stay is not the
question. The question remains, How are you going to earn a
living? 4 beyond (all or any) question. beyond (the shadow of) a
doubt, without question, without a doubt, indubitably,
undoubtedly, doubtlessly, definitely, certainly, assuredly: He
is guilty beyond all question. 5 call in or into question.
question, doubt, query, challenge, dispute, harbour or entertain
or have doubts or suspicions about, suspect, cast doubt or
suspicion on: I cannot see why he has called her loyalty into

question. 6 in question. a under discussion or consideration:
The person in question never worked for this company. b
questionable, debatable, at issue, in doubt, doubtful, open to
debate: Her honesty was never in question. 7 out of the
question. unthinkable, impossible, absurd, ridiculous,
preposterous, inconceivable, beyond consideration,
insupportable: An increase in salary at this time is out of the
question. 8 without question. See 4, above.


--v. 9 ask, examine, interrogate, query, interview, sound out,
quiz, Colloq pump, grill, Slang give (someone) the third degree:
He was questioned for six hours as to his whereabouts. 10 call
in or into question, doubt, query, mistrust, distrust, cast
doubt upon, dispute, suspect: Investigators have long
questioned the relationship between the banks and the drug
barons.

questionable
adj. doubtful, dubious, debatable, moot, disputable,
borderline, suspect, suspicious, shady; open to question, in
question, in dispute, problematic(al), uncertain, arguable,
unsure, unreliable, ambiguous: The evidence shows that the
defendant engaged in questionable banking practices while a
director of Offshore Ltd. The advantages of quick divorce are
questionable.

queue n. 1 line, row, file, column, string, train, cortege or
cortŠge, retinue, procession, succession, chain, concatenation,
series, order, cordon, Brit tailback, Colloq Brit crocodile,
Military picket: There were dozens of people in the queue in
front of me. 2 pigtail, braid, plait; tail, pony-tail: Not
long ago, Chinese men wore their hair in a queue.

--v. 3 Often, queue up. line up, get in or into or form a line
or queue or file, get into or in line, Military fall in: All he
remembers about the war is that everyone had to queue up for
everything and wait.

quibble v. 1 equivocate, split hairs, evade, be evasive, palter, chop
logic, bandy words, cavil, pettifog, Colloq nit-pick: While
people continued to be kept in slavery, the politicians quibbled
over the difference between 'liberty' and 'freedom'.

--n. 2 quibbling, equivocation, hair-splitting, splitting
hairs, evasion, paltering, sophistry, Colloq nit-picking:
Lawyers often become involved in a quibble over the mot juste
and forget their clients. 3 cavil, sophism, subtlety, nicety:
It's a quibble whether you say 'either' and 'neither' to rhyme
with 'peek' or 'pike'.

quick adj. 1 rapid, fast, speedy, swift, fleet; expeditious, express:
We made a quick descent to reach the camp before dark. The hand
is quicker than the eye. Can you arrange the quick delivery of
this parcel to Aylesbury? 2 sudden, precipitate, hasty, brisk,
short, abrupt, hurried, perfunctory, summary; immediate, prompt,
timely, instantaneous: There is no quick answer to your
question about the causes of World War II. Don't be so quick to
criticize others. I had a quick response to my letter
complaining about service. 3 agile, lively, nimble, energetic,
vigorous, alert, animated, keen, sharp, acute, spry, spirited,
vivacious, rapid, swift: In three quick steps she was at my
side. Antonia is known for her quick mind. 4 intelligent,
bright, brilliant, facile, adept, adroit, dexterous, apt, able,
expert, skilful, deft, astute, clever, shrewd, smart, ingenious,
perceptive, perspicacious, discerning, far-sighted, responsive;
nimble-witted, quick-witted: You can rely on Rob's quick
thinking to come up with a solution to the problem. 5 excitable,
touchy, testy, petulant, irascible, irritable, impatient: She
said that I have a quick temper because of my red hair.

quicken v. 1 accelerate, hasten, speed up: As we neared the house, our
pace quickened. 2 expedite, hurry, accelerate, hasten, speed
(up): We did everything we could to quicken her departure. 3
stimulate, arouse, kindle, spark, invigorate, excite, animate,
vitalize, vivify, galvanize, enliven, awaken, energize, revive,
resuscitate, reinvigorate: Olivia's inspiring lectures
quickened the imagination of everyone who heard them.


quickly adv. 1 rapidly, swiftly, speedily, fast: Although share prices
dropped in the morning, they recovered quickly during afternoon
trading. 2 rapidly, swiftly, speedily, fast, with dispatch or
despatch, apace, post-haste, at or on the double, with all
speed, quick, Colloq US and Canadian lickety-split: Run
quickly, and you'll get there before the shop closes. 3
instantly, promptly, hastily, at once, immediately, straight
away, right away, shortly, without delay, (very) soon,

hurriedly, quick, Colloq pronto: You'll have to leave quickly
to catch your train.

quick-tempered
adj. excitable, impulsive, temperamental, hot-tempered,
waspish, choleric, splenetic, impatient, short-tempered, touchy,
irascible, irritable, snappish, abrupt, short, short-spoken,
quarrelsome, testy, volatile, hot-blooded, bad-tempered,
ill-tempered, churlish, highly-strung, US high-keyed: Len is
very quick-tempered these days and flies into a rage at the
slightest provocation.

quick-witted
adj. acute, sharp, clever, smart, nimble-witted, alert, keen,
astute, perceptive, perspicacious: Hallam is known for his
quick-witted responses to hecklers in the audience.

quiet adj. 1 silent, soundless, noiseless, hushed, still: We have to
be very quiet so as not to wake the children. 2 still, serene,
silent, peaceful, unperturbed, calm, tranquil, placid, pacific,
smooth, mild, restful, unagitated: The sea was very quiet as we
rowed towards the beach. 3 dormant, quiescent, inactive,
retired, withdrawn, unobtrusive: His last days were spent
living a quiet life in the Outer Hebrides. 4 still, motionless,
unmoving, fixed, stationary, at rest, inactive, composed,
temperate, unexcited, calm: There was a knock at the door and
everyone suddenly became quiet.

--n. 5 silence, stillness, soundlessness, noiselessness, hush,
quietness, quietude, ease, rest, calmness, serenity,
tranquillity, peace, peace of mind, repose: In the quiet of the
cave I could hear my heart beating.

--v. 6 See quieten, below.


quieten v. Often, quieten down. quiet (down), still, silence, hush,
calm, tranquillize, lull: He gradually quietened down the
audience, and the curtain rose.


quietly adv. 1 silently, soundlessly, noiselessly, inaudibly, in
silence, softly: She tiptoed quietly out of the room. 2 in
hushed tones, in whispers: In a corner of the room a young
couple were quietly conversing. 3 peacefully, calmly, serenely,

peaceably, meekly, mildly: When the police explained they only
wanted him to help in their inquiries, he went with them
quietly. 4 modestly, humbly, demurely, unpretentiously,
unostentatiously, unobtrusively, unassumingly, sedately: The
applicants sat quietly, waiting to be called in for the
interview.

quintessence
n. essence, heart, core, quiddity, essentialness, essentiality,
pith, marrow, sum and substance, epitome, nonpareil, embodiment,
personification, model, prototype, exemplar, ideal, beau id‚al,
paragon: Hernandez considered the ancient Greek temple the
quintessence of classic design.


quip n. 1 (bon) mot, witticism, sally, jest, ad lib, joke, gibe,
barb, aphorism, epigram, apophthegm or apothegm, pun, double
entendre, equivoque or equivoke, Colloq gag, one-liner, crack,
wisecrack, wheeze, chestnut: In his worst quip he attributed
the breakdown of his computer to a slipped diskette.


--v. 2 joke, jest, gibe, Colloq wisecrack, US crack wise: As
Mae West quipped, 'It's not the men in my life that count; it's
the life in my men'.


quirk n. peculiarity, caprice, vagary, eccentricity, fancy, twist,
warp, aberration, idiosyncrasy, oddity, kink, characteristic,
crotchet, whim, trick: By some strange quirk of fate, after
weeks in an open boat I was cast ashore at Cap d'Antibes.


quit v. 1 leave, depart from, go (away) from, get away from, decamp,
exit, desert, flee, forsake, abandon, Colloq take off, beat it,
skip: They think that he will try to quit the country if he is
released on bail. 2 resign, give up, relinquish, leave,
renounce, retire from, withdraw from: Would you really quit
your job to sail around the world? 3 cease, stop, discontinue,
leave off, desist from: They would always quit laughing when I
walked into the room.

--adj. 4 free, clear, discharged, rid of, released (from),
exempt (from): When my ex-wife remarried I was quit of the
burden of paying alimony.

quite adv. 1 completely, very, totally, utterly, entirely, from head

to toe, from A to Z, fully, wholly, thoroughly, unequivocally,
absolutely, perfectly, altogether, unreservedly: Her trouble is
that she is quite certain of many things that are simply not the
case. The last time I saw him, he was quite drunk. 2 rather,
fairly, moderately, somewhat, relatively, to some or a certain
extent or degree, noticeably: I thought that the paintings were
quite well done. 3 rather: We had quite a good dinner last
night. 4 very much, totally, entirely, wholly, altogether;
really, actually, truly, definitely, positively, undoubtedly,
indubitably, absolutely, unequivocally, certainly, surely,
unreservedly, honestly: What you are talking about is quite
another matter. Your home-made chutney is quite the best I have
ever tasted.


quiver v. 1 shake, tremble, vibrate, shiver, quaver; shudder, tremor,
oscillate, fluctuate, wobble: He felt his lips quivering as he
told her that he was dying. The outcome of the contest quivered
in the balance.


--n. 2 tremble, quaver, shudder, spasm, shake, tremor, shiver:
Pierced by the dart, the tiny bird fell to the earth, gave a
little quiver, and lay still.

quixotic adj. idealistic, impractical, impracticable, unrealistic,
unrealizable, visionary, romantic, fantastic, chimerical,
fanciful, dreamlike, dreamy, nephelococcygeal, starry-eyed,
optimistic, rash, absurd, mad, foolhardy, reckless, wild,
preposterous, ridiculous: When he was young, he had a quixotic
notion that he could improve the world.


quiz n. 1 examination, test, Colloq exam: We have a ten-minute quiz
every week on our reading assignment.

--v. 2 question, interrogate, ask, examine, Colloq grill, pump:
The police have quizzed everyone in the neighbourhood about what
they might have seen.

quizzical adj. curious, queer, odd, inquiring or enquiring, questioning,
puzzled: The interviewer had a quizzical expression, as if he
didn't quite understand his own questions.

quota n. apportionment, portion, allotment, allocation, allowance,
ration, share, part, proportion, percentage, equity, interest,

Colloq cut: Each shareholder is allowed a quota of the new
shares based on the number now held.

quotation n. 1 quote, passage, citation, reference, allusion, extract,
excerpt, selection: For many years Frances collected quotations
from the speeches of politicians. 2 quote, (bid or asking or
offer or market) price, charge, fixed price, rate, cost; value:
The quotation for Universal General International stood at 486
pence at the close of the market on Friday.


quote v. 1 cite, mention, recite, repeat, retell, reproduce,
duplicate, call up, bring up, bring in, instance, exemplify,
refer to, reference, extract, excerpt: Let me quote to you the
relevant passage from Paradise Lost .


--n. 2 See quotation, above.

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