assignment, lesson, exercise, homework; commission, mission, engagement, errand, quest.
2. labor, toil, drudgery, work, strain; difficulty, travail, tribulation, trial, passion; sweat, fag, grind, grindstone, treadmill; test, test of strength, tall order, tough assignment, Augean stables, Herculean task; hard work, backbreaking work, uphill work, donkey-work, manual labor, spadework.
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take to task call to account, blame, inculpate, incriminate, recriminate; impute, indict, charge, cite; censure, tax, reprove, reproach, bring to book; decry, denounce, denunciate, contemn, reprehend.
-v. 4. strain, load, burden, charge, weigh down, break the back of; encumber, cumber, tax, overload, overtask, overtax; oppress, drive, grind, crush, push too far; exhaust, tire, wear, wear out, weary, fag.
taskmaster, n. 1. martinet, disciplinarian, master; oppressor, tyrant, despot, slave driver, Simon Legree; inquisitor.
2. supervisor, overseer, overlooker, surveyor; superintendent, director, manager, inspector; boss, foreman, fugleman; monitor, proctor,
taste, v. 1. savor, relish, smack, Inf smack one's
lips, degust, degustate, sip, nibble at, try.
2. experience, meet, encounter, come up against, undergo; partake of, participate in, assay.
3. (all in reference to flavor) perceive, distinguish, differentiate, discern, discriminate.
-n. 4. gustation, degustation, libation.
5. flavor, savor, sapor, spice, tang, sapidity, piquancy; flavorfulness, savoriness, palatability.
6. morsel, grain, bit, Scot., Irish Eng. stime, bite, mouthful, sample; sip, nip, drop, dribble; touch, dash, hint, suggestion, suspicion, soupfon, trace, tinge, shade.
7. appetite, hunger, thirst, craving, hankering, yearning, longing; relish, palate, sweet tooth; zest, gusto, Fr. goQt, preference, partiality, bias, keenness; affinity, liking, affection, fondness, love; penchant; attraction, disposition, predisposition, predilection, propensity, proclivity.
8. discernment, acumen, perception; discrimination, finesse, judgement; cultivation, culture, fine feeling, refinement, polish, grace, elegance, stylishness, ton, bon ton, polish, finish; rhythm, balance, symmetry, proportion.
9. style, mode, fashion, manner, form.
10. custom, conventionality; correctness, propriety, restraint, tactfulness, politeness, politesse, delicacy, nicety.
tasteful, adj. tactful, restrained, polite; correct, appropriate, fitting, fit, proper, Fr. comme il faut, decorous; cultivated, cultured, refined, elegant, polished, finished; charming, graceful, dainty; discriminative, aesthetic, artistic; harmonious, symmetrical, balanced, proportional,
tasteless, adj. 1. unflavorful, flavorless, unflavored, savorless, vapid, insipid, Fr. fade, dead; flat, stale, unpalatable, unsavory, unappetizing; weak, thin, watery, watered-down.
2. dull, uninteresting, jejune, commonplace, prosaic, run-of-the-mill; boring, wearisome, tiresome, monotonous, humdrum, drab, heavy.
3. tactless, inappropriate, unproper, improper, unfitting, impolite, rude; uncultivated, unrefined, gauche; boorish, churlish, coarse, gross, crude, vulgar; meretricious, tawdry, loud, garish, gawdy, flashy, showy; Inf tacky, SI. schlock, cheap, trashy.
tasty, adj. 1. good-tasting, savory, savorous, sapid, palatable, toothsome, Scot, gustable; flavorful, flavorsome, flavorous, appetizing, relishable; deli-