gloss

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Synonyms: gross, glass, floss, loss, goss, gliss, glost, glos, glows, glose, globs

Antonyms: gross, glass, floss, loss, goss, gliss, glost, glos, glows, glose, globs

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Noun

1. A surface shine or luster.
2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
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Verb

1. To give a gloss or sheen to.
2. To make (something) attractive by deception
3. To become shiny.
4. Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

Noun

1. A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
2. Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
3. An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
4. An extensive commentary on some text.
5. An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
6. A definition or explanation of a word sense.

Verb

1. To add a gloss to (a text).

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