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palate, n. 1. roof of the mouth, soft palate, hard palate, pharynx, epiglottis.
2. taste, Fr. gobt, appetite, tongue, stomach, taste buds.
3. appreciation, liking, enjoyment; zest, gusto, enthusiasm, relish, delight.
palatial, adj. magnificent, luxurious, sumptuous, posh; stately, majestic, grand, imposing, massive; huge, large, commodious, roomy; ornate, elegant, fancy; pretentious, ostentatious, showy, SI. ritzy, Inf. swanky, hoity-toity, Inf. high-toned,
palaver, n. 1. parley, Inf. powwow, conference, round table, colloquy; session, meeting, gathering, consultation, brainstorming, deliberation; interview, audience, hearing; talk, dialogue, discussion, confabulation, Inf. confab; conversation, causerie, coze, chat, Inf. rap, Inf. rap session, Inf. bull session.
2. chatter, chitchat, SI. yakety-yak, SI. yak, twaddle, blather, prattle, idle talk, SI. shmooze, small talk, Scot. clishmaclaver, gossip, SI. chinning, SI. chin session; buzzing, Inf. gab, babble, Brit, natter.
3. flattery, cajolery, wheedling, honeyed words, sweet talk, soft soap, blarney; balderdash, hogwash, eyewash, nonsense, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh; flummery, SI. bunk, rubbish, SI. horsefeathers, tom-myrot, foolishness.
-v. 4. parley, Inf. powwow, confer, meet, sit down together; converse, discuss, talk, talk over, chat; deliberate, get in a huddle, put heads together, brainstorm; consult, exchange views or opinions, compare notes; negotiate.
5. chatter, chitchat, SI. yak, SI. shmooze; gibber, jabber, SI. gibber-jabber, blather, gabble, run off at the mouth, SI. have diarrhea of the mouth, SI. jaw, SI. chin; shoot the breeze, pass the time of day, make conversation; prattle, prate, cackle, babble, Inf. beat one's gums; chew the fat or the rag, tittle-tattle, tattle, Scot. clishmaclaver, gossip.
pale1, adj. 1. colorless, hueless, toneless, uncolored, achromic, achromous, achromatic; drab, dreary, flat, mat, lusterless, lackluster; bleached, blanched, washed-out, etiolated; wan, pallid, Obs. blate, palefaced, anemic, sickly; waxen, sallow, pasty, ashen, ashy, livid, ghostly, ghastly, deathlike, cadaverous, lurid; bloodless, white, drained; whey-faced, sallowfaced, unhealthy looking, unwholesome looking, peaked looking; deathly pale, drained of color, like death, pale as a ghost.
2. dim, imperceptible, hardly noticeable, indiscernible; ill-defined, unclear, indistinct, blurred, blurry, clouded, obscured; obfuscated, muffled, bleared.
3. feeble, weak, impotent, powerless; enfeebled, debilitated, enervated; ineffective, incompetent, poor, unsatisfactory, half-baked; lame, insufficient, inadequate, unconvincing; faint, flimsy, thin, watery, meager.
-v. 4. blanch, whiten, go white, grow pale; become pallid, Archaic, wan; droop, flag, sag, faint.
5. bleach, gray, wash out; etiolate, achromatize, dim, fade, cloud, grow dull, lose luster or brightness.
6. take alarm, fear, grow afraid, be afraid, dread; start, shy away, stand aghast; wince, flinch, hesitate, falter, lose heart.
7. lessen, abate, diminish, decrease, slacken; subside, let up, intermit, cease; taper off, drop off, die out; fade away, melt away, dissolve; evanesce, vanish.
pale*, n. 1. picket, paling, slat; post, upright, member, palisade.
2. enclosure, fenced area, pen, sty, fold, corral, paddock, pound; ring, arena, precincts; (in South Africa) kraal, yard, prison yard; compound, stockade, concentration camp; court, close, cloister, schoolyard, enceinte.
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