MODALS Synonyms

• thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America

• the month following April and preceding June

• physical strength

• a necessary or essential thing

• grape juice before or during fermentation

• the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

• highly recommended

• the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

• a fixed and persistent intent or purpose

• a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die

• decree or ordain

• determine by choice

• leave or give by will after one's death

• airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

• the quantity contained in a can

• a buoy with a round bottom and conical top

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

• a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

• preserve in a can or tin

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

• (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

• Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.

• Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.

• To owe.

• (modal, auxiliary verb, defective) Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.

• Used similarly to indicate determination or obligation in the second and third persons singular or plural.

• Used in questions with the first person singular or plural to suggest a possible future action.

• To owe.

• To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.

• (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no authority to enforce it.

• (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable.

• (auxiliary) Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.

• (auxiliary, subjunctive) Used as a variant of the present subjunctive.

• (auxiliary) A variant of would when used with first person subjects.

• A statement of what ought to be the case as opposed to what is the case.

• Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

• a statistic describing the location of a distribution

• (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities

• an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual

• approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

• lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered

• lacking exceptional quality or ability

• around the middle of a scale of evaluation

• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

• relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)

• amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain

• achieve or reach on average

• compute the average of

• an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality

• an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality

• an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality