WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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embarrassment, overplus, plethora, superfluity,
1. NOUN. (embarrassment)
extreme excess
"an embarrassment of riches"
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2. NOUN. (embarrassment)
some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
"the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
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3. NOUN. (embarrassment)
the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
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self-consciousness, uneasiness, uncomfortableness, shamefacedness, sheepishness, chagrin, humiliation, mortification, confusion, discombobulation, abashment, bashfulness, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment,
