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3. pleasure, taste, preference, wish, desire; propensity, bias, inclination, prejudice, partiality, predisposition, predilection, prepossession; elect, elite, pick, select, best part, tidbit, prize, best, rarest, prime, treasure; gem, jewel, pearl, flower, cream of the crop; paragon, nonesuch, nonpareil, one in a million; champion, prodigy; excerpt, excerption, extract, extraction.
4. supply, store, fund, stock, surplus, accumulation; variety, alternative, selection; display, array, assemblage; profusion, large quantity, multitude, abundance, host. -adj. 5. superior, superlative, supreme, paramount, preeminent, exalted; unique, extraordinary, special, peculiar, unusual; rare, uncommon, scarce; best, first-rate, first-class, prime, Inf. champion, tiptop; consummate, perfect, excellent, ideal, sterling; precious, fine, superfine, exquisite, dainty; valuable, priceless, prize; exceptional, singular, particular; exclusive, restricted; preferred, preferable, preferential.
6. select, elect, singled out, chosen, hand-picked, elite, cream. choke, v. 1. strangle, strangulate, throttle, gar-rote, bowstring, gibbet, hang; asphyxiate, suffocate, burke, smother, stifle; gag, retch, gasp.
2. clog, dam up, plug, stop, cork, seal; congest, constrict, close, shut, occlude; obstruct, block, blockade, bar, prohibit; hinder, hamper, cramp, restrict, restrain, trammel, impede; check, inhibit, suppress, repress, curb, muzzle.
3. overload, overlade, surcharge, gorge; saturate, glut, satiate, cloy; engulf, submerge, flood, deluge, inundate, envelop; deaden, damp down, burn out, die out. choleric, adj. irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered, Inf. short-fused; testy, crusty, fractious, touchy, thin-skinned, edgy, on edge, SI. uptight, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, atrabilious, cranky, ill-humored, ill-tempered, Australian, crook, bad-tempered; irritable, cross, surly, churlish, snappish, petulant, peevish; crabbed, grouchy, gruff, brusque, rude, impolite, discourteous; rancorous, acerbic, bitter; vixenish, shrewish, waspish, sharp; quarrelsome, contentious, belligerent, up in arms, pugnacious, bellicose; volatile, ignitable, volcanic, explosive, hot-tempered, hot-headed, fiery, wrathful. choose, v. select, cull, pick, Inf. hand-pick, take, draw, check, x; prefer, favor, fancy, like, want, desire; single out, set apart, sort, separate, winnow, distinguish; balance, weigh, discriminate; determine, judge, decide, opt, see fit, think fit, resolve, make up one's mind; accept, adopt, espouse, embrace, take up, join, cast in one's lot; assign, appoint, elect, co-opt. chop1, v. 1. Often chop down or off cut, hack, hew, hackle, haggle, fell, bring down; sever, split, cleave, sunder, rend; lop, prune, trim, shear, slip, crop, truncate.
2. Often chop up cut up, divide, partition, apportion; cube, dice, mince, hash, chip, splinter, shiver, crumb, crumble, fragment. -n. 3. cuff, buffet, knock, punch, box, Inf. whack, Inf. wallop, Inf. whomp, Inf clout, SI. plug, SI. bop, SI. sock, SI. shot; blow, bastinado, Scot. dunt, SI. conk, SI. bash, U.S. SI. biff, SI. bop; strike, hit, smack, thwack, slap.
4. cutlet, rib, Fr. cotelette; piece, portion, slice, cut.
chop2, v. 1. jerk, bump or bounce along, start and stop, dart about; shift, shuffle, dodge, change, vary; swerve, veer, turn, whirl, swirl, whip around, reverse, Naut. jibe, Naut. tack; wave, undulate, fluctuate, vacillate. -n. 2. waviness, undulation, choppiness, roughness, unevenness; turbulence, storminess.
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