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| NOUN: | 1. An easily accomplished task: child's play, cinch, pushover, walkaway, walkover. Informal : breeze. Slang : duck soup. See EASY. 2. A sudden motion, such as a pull: jerk, lurch, tug, twitch, wrench, yank. See MOVE, PUSH. 3. A sudden sharp, explosive noise: bang, bark, clap, crack, explosion, pop1, rat-a-tat-tat, report. See SOUNDS. 4. A light, sharp noise: clack, click. See SOUNDS. 5. Informal. A quality of active mental and physical forcefulness: dash, punch, starch, verve, vigor, vigorousness, vim, vitality. Idioms: vim and vigor. See ACTION, TIRED. | | VERB: | 1. To give way mentally and emotionally: break (down), collapse, crack. Informal : crack up, fold. See EXPLOSION. 2. To make a sudden sharp, explosive noise: bang, bark, clap, crack, pop1. See SOUNDS. 3. To move or cause to move with a sudden abrupt motion: jerk, lurch, twitch, wrench, yank. See MOVE, PUSH. 4. To grasp at (something) eagerly, forcibly, and abruptly with the jaws: catch, nip1, snatch, strike. See REACH. 5. To make a light, sharp noise: clack, click. See SOUNDS. 6. To speak abruptly and sharply: bark, snarl1. Idioms: bite someone's head off, snap someone's head (or nose) off. See WORDS. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Informal. Posing no difficulty: easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth. Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it. See EASY. 2. Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, spur-of-the-moment, unrehearsed. Informal : off-the-cuff. See PREPARED.
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