elected

• accepted
• adopted
• appointed
• cherry-picked
• chose
• culled
• designated
• embraced
• espoused
• fixed
• handpicked
• marked
• named
• nominated
• picked
• preferred
• preselected
• selected
• set
• tabbed
• tagged
• tapped
• took
• voted in

• declined
• disapproved
• discarded
• jettisoned
• negatived
• refused
• rejected
• repudiated
• spurned
• threw away
• threw out
• turned down

• verb
  1. To choose or make a decision (to do something).
  2. To choose (a candidate) in an election.
• noun
  1. One who is elected.

• She was elected as the student body president after a strong campaign.
• The mayor was elected for a second term due to his popularity.
• They elected a new board of directors at the annual meeting.
• After much debate, the committee elected John as the chairperson.
• He was elected to represent his district in the national parliament.

big

• Brobdingnagian
• Bunyanesque
• Himalayan
• VIP
• a whale of a
• abundant
• adult
• all-important
• altruistic
• ample
• appreciable
• arch
• arty
• astronomic
• astronomical
• august
• awash
• baron
• benevolent
• big boy
• big cheese
• big gun
• big leaguer
• big shot
• big time
• big wheel
• big-league
• big-time
• big-timer
• bigfoot
• biggie
• biggish
• bighearted
• bigwig
• boastful
• boxcar
• bragging
• brimming
• brooding
• bulky
• bumper
• burly
• capacious
• capital
• cardinal
• caught
• cavernous
• celebrated
• central
• chief
• childbearing
• chivalrous
• chock-full
• colossal
• commodious
• conceited
• conceiving
• concentrated
• consequential
• considerable
• considerate
• copious
• cosmic
• cosmical
• critical
• crowd-pleasing
• crowded
• crucial
• cyclopean
• czar
• decisive
• desirable
• distinctive
• distinguished
• dominant
• du jour
• earnest
• earth-shattering
• earthshaking
• elder
• elephantine
• elevated
• eminent
• enceinte
• ennobled
• enormous
• enriched
• essential
• establishment
• eventful
• exalted
• exceptional
• excessive
• exorbitant
• expectant
• expecting
• extensive
• extravagant
• extreme
• fabled
• fabulous
• faddish
• faddy
• famed
• famous
• fashionable
• fat
• fat cat
• fatal
• fateful
• favorite
• first
• flamboyant
• foremost
• fortified
• free
• full
• full-bodied
• full-grown
• galactic
• gallant
• gargantuan
• gestational
• gigantic
• glorified
• gone
• goodly
• gracious
• grand
• grave
• gravid
• great
• greatest
• greathearted
• gross
• grown-up
• handsome
• happening
• haughty
• heady
• heavy
• heavy hitter
• heavy-duty
• heavyweight
• hefty
• hellacious
• herculean
• heroic
• heroical
• high
• high-level
• high-minded
• high-muck-a-muck
• high-muckety-muck
• high-octane
• high-sounding
• high-test
• highest
• historic
• honcho
• honorable
• hot
• huge
• hulking
• humongous
• humungous
• husky
• illustrious
• immense
• immoderate
• imperious
• important
• imposing
• impregnated
• impressive
• in
• incomparable
• inflated
• influential
• inordinate
• inspiring
• jumbo
• kahuna
• key
• king
• king-size
• king-sized
• kingfish
• kingpin
• knightly
• large
• largish
• leading
• legendary
• leviathan
• liberal
• liked
• lion
• lofty
• lordly
• lusty
• magnanimous
• magnate
• magnificent
• main
• majestic
• major
• major league
• major leaguer
• major-league
• mammoth
• massive
• master
• matchless
• material
• mature
• meaningful
• mighty
• modish
• mogul
• momentous
• mondo
• monolithic
• monster
• monstrous
• monumental
• mountainous
• moving
• much
• muck-a-muck
• muckety-muck
• mucky-muck
• muscular
• nabob
• natural
• nawab
• nibs
• nob
• noble
• notable
• noted
• noteworthy
• notorious
• number one
• numero uno
• numinous
• old guard
• outsize
• outsized
• outstanding
• overbearing
• overblown
• overmastering
• overriding
• oversize
• oversized
• packed
• paramount
• parturient
• pharaonic
• pivotal
• plentiful
• plush
• pompous
• ponderous
• poo-bah
• pooh-bah
• pop
• popular
• popularized
• potent
• powerful
• predominant
• preeminent
• preferred
• pregnant
• premier
• prenatal
• prestigious
• presumptuous
• pretentious
• primal
• primary
• prime
• prince
• princely
• princess
• principal
• prior
• prodigious
• prominent
• proud
• queen
• quick
• red-hot
• regal
• remarkable
• renowned
• rich
• robust
• roomy
• selected
• seminal
• semipopular
• senior
• serious
• signal
• significant
• sincere
• sizable
• sizeable
• sovereign
• sovran
• spacious
• staggering
• star
• stellar
• straight
• strapping
• strategic
• strong
• stuffed
• stupendous
• sublime
• substantial
• super
• super-duper
• supercolossal
• superior
• supersized
• supreme
• tall
• tectonic
• thick
• thundering
• tidy
• titanic
• top
• tremendous
• tsar
• tycoon
• tzar
• undiluted
• unequaled
• unequalled
• unmixed
• unparalleled
• unselfish
• unsurpassed
• uplifting
• valiant
• valuable
• vast
• vasty
• venerable
• vital
• vogue
• voguish
• voluminous
• walloping
• wanted
• weighty
• well-known
• whacking
• wheel
• whopper
• whopping
• with child
• with young
• worthwhile
• worthy

called

• abandoned
• aborted
• abrogated
• accounted
• alerted
• amassed
• announced
• annulled
• anticipated
• asked
• assembled
• augured
• bade
• baptised
• baptized
• bawled
• bayed
• beckoned
• beeped
• believed
• bellowed
• bid
• boded
• branded
• broke off
• buzzed
• calculated
• called for
• called in
• called off
• called out
• called up
• came by
• came over
• canceled
• cancelled
• caterwauled
• cautioned
• chosen
• christened
• cited
• cleped
• code-named
• cold-called
• collected
• commanded
• conceived
• concluded
• conjectured
• considered
• convened
• convoked
• counted
• countermanded
• cried
• cried off
• crowed
• declared
• decreed
• deduced
• deemed
• demanded
• denominated
• denoted
• designated
• dialed
• dialled
• dictated
• directed
• discontinued
• divined
• dropped
• dropped by
• dropped in
• dubbed
• ended
• entitled
• esteemed
• estimated
• extrapolated
• fancied
• felt
• figured
• forboded
• foreboded
• forecast
• forecasted
• foreknew
• foresaw
• foretold
• forewarned
• frequented
• gaged
• gathered
• gauged
• gave up
• grouped
• guessed
• hailed
• hallooed
• halted
• haunted
• held
• held back
• heralded
• hollered
• holloed
• howled
• imagined
• inferred
• interrupted
• invalidated
• invited
• invoked
• judged
• knelled
• labeled
• labelled
• looked up
• made
• mandated
• miscalled
• misnamed
• mistitled
• mustered
• named
• nicknamed
• nominated
• nullified
• ordained
• ordered
• paged
• petitioned
• phoned
• placed
• portended
• predicted
• presaged
• proclaimed
• prognosticated
• promised
• prophesied
• put
• rallied
• ran in
• rang
• rated
• read
• reasoned
• reassembled
• recalled
• recanted
• rechristened
• reckoned
• reconvened
• regarded
• relabeled
• relabelled
• relinquished
• renamed
• repealed
• requested
• required
• requisitioned
• rescinded
• retracted
• reversed
• revoked
• roared
• rolled back
• rounded up
• sang
• saw
• scrapped
• screamed
• screeched
• scrubbed
• selected
• sensed
• sent for
• set down
• shouted
• shrieked
• shrilled
• sounded off
• specified
• spoke out
• spoke up
• squeaked
• squealed
• stepped in
• stigmatized
• stopped
• styled
• subpoenaed
• summoned
• sung
• supposed
• surnamed
• surrendered
• suspended
• tagged
• telephoned
• termed
• terminated
• thought
• thundered
• titled
• took back
• took for
• ululated
• understood
• vaticinated
• viewed
• visited
• vociferated
• voided
• wailed
• warned
• whistled
• whooped
• withdrew
• wrote off
• yauped
• yawped
• yelled
• yowled

dainty

• acute
• agreeable
• airy
• ambrosial
• appetizing
• attractive
• beautiful
• better
• bijou
• bit
• bonny
• candy
• captious
• careful
• carping
• cate
• caviling
• cavilling
• charming
• choice
• choosey
• choosy
• classic
• comely
• critical
• cute
• darling
• delectable
• delicacy
• delicate
• delicious
• delightful
• delish
• demanding
• dessert
• diaphanous
• digestible
• discerning
• discriminating
• eatable
• edible
• elegant
• elite
• ethereal
• exacting
• excellent
• exceptional
• exclusive
• exquisite
• extraordinary
• fabulous
• fair
• fancy
• fastidious
• faultfinding
• fine
• finical
• finicking
• finicky
• first-class
• first-rate
• flavorful
• flavorsome
• fragile
• frail
• fussbudgety
• fussy
• goodie
• goody
• graceful
• grand
• gratifying
• great
• heavenly
• high-grade
• hypercritical
• hyperfastidious
• incomparable
• insightful
• jewellike
• junket
• kickshaw
• knowledgeable
• lacy
• light
• lovely
• luscious
• lush
• marvellous
• marvelous
• meticulous
• mincing
• morsel
• mouthwatering
• neat
• nice
• niminy-piminy
• noble
• nuanced
• old-maidish
• outstanding
• overcritical
• overdemanding
• painstaking
• palatable
• par excellence
• particular
• peerless
• peevish
• perceptive
• pernickety
• persnickety
• petite
• petulant
• picked
• picky
• pleasant
• pleasing
• precious
• preeminent
• premium
• pretty
• prickly
• prim
• prime
• prissy
• punctilious
• queasy
• queazy
• rare
• refined
• satisfying
• savory
• savoury
• scrumptious
• scrupulous
• select
• selected
• selective
• sensational
• soft
• special
• splendid
• squeamish
• stellar
• sterling
• subtle
• succulent
• superb
• superior
• superlative
• supernal
• supreme
• sweet
• sweetmeat
• tasteful
• tasty
• tender
• terrific
• tidbit
• tip-top
• titbit
• toothsome
• toothy
• top
• top-notch
• touchy
• transcendent
• treat
• trim
• twee
• ultrafastidious
• ultrarare
• unsurpassed
• viand
• well-made
• wonderful
• yummy

decided

• absolute
• adjudged
• adjudicated
• affirmed
• apparent
• appreciable
• approved
• arbitrated
• arranged
• ascertained
• assertive
• assumed
• assured
• authorized
• bald
• bald-faced
• barefaced
• bargained
• bent
• black-and-white
• blueprinted
• bright-line
• broad
• calculated
• categorical
• certain
• chaffered
• charted
• chewed over
• chose
• cinched
• clarified
• clean
• clean-cut
• clear
• clear-cut
• cleared
• clinched
• closed
• cocksure
• cogitated
• cognizable
• cognoscible
• completed
• comprehendible
• comprehensible
• concerted
• concluded
• confirmed
• conjectured
• considered
• construed
• contemplated
• contracted
• crystal clear
• culled
• dealt
• debated
• decipherable
• decisive
• decreed
• deduced
• deemed
• defined
• deliberate
• deliberated
• demonstrated
• derived
• designed
• destined
• determined
• dickered
• digestible
• discernable
• discernible
• disposed of
• distinct
• drafted
• drew a conclusion
• earnest
• elected
• emphatic
• ended
• ensured
• entertained
• established
• evident
• explicit
• express
• extrapolated
• fair
• fated
• fathomable
• figured
• finalized
• finished
• firm
• fixed
• for sure
• found
• found out
• framed
• gathered
• graspable
• guessed
• haggled
• hammered out
• handpicked
• heard
• horse-traded
• illuminated
• in the bag
• indisputable
• inferred
• inflexible
• insured
• intelligible
• intent
• interpreted
• intrigued
• iron-jawed
• judged
• knowable
• laid out
• legible
• lucid
• luculent
• luminous
• made out
• maneuvered
• manifest
• mediated
• meditated
• moderated
• mulish
• nailed
• named
• negotiated
• nonambiguous
• noticeable
• observable
• obvious
• okayed
• on ice
• open-and-shut
• opted
• overt
• palpable
• patent
• pellucid
• perceptible
• perspicuous
• philosophized
• picked
• plain
• planned
• pledged
• pondered
• positive
• prearranged
• predetermined
• preferred
• programed
• programmed
• promised
• pronounced
• prosecuted
• proved
• purposeful
• questioned
• rationalized
• read
• readable
• reasoned
• recognizable
• redetermined
• refereed
• rejudged
• resolute
• resolved
• ringing
• ruled
• ruminated
• runaway
• sanctioned
• schematized
• schemed
• secured
• selected
• self-evident
• self-explanatory
• sensible
• serious
• set
• settled
• shaped
• showed
• simple
• sized up
• specified
• speculated
• squared away
• stated
• stipulated
• straightforward
• strong-minded
• studied
• supposed
• sure
• surmised
• tangible
• thought
• tidy
• transparent
• trenchant
• tried
• umpired
• unalterable
• unambiguous
• unambivalent
• unbending
• uncomplicated
• undeniable
• understandable
• understood
• undisguised
• undisputed
• unequivocal
• unfaltering
• unhesitating
• unmistakable
• unquestionable
• unwavering
• unyielding
• visible
• warranted
• weighed
• well-defined
• winded up
• worked out
• wound up
• wrapped up

elect

• A-list
• Hall of Fame
• accept
• admit
• adopt
• appoint
• aristocracy
• ballot
• best
• caviar
• caviare
• cherry-pick
• cherry-picked
• choice
• choose
• chosen
• conclude
• cream
• cream of the crop
• cull
• culled
• decide upon
• designate
• determine
• elite
• embrace
• espouse
• establishment
• exclusive
• fashionable
• fat
• favored
• favorite
• first-line
• fix
• flower
• gentry
• go down the line
• handpick
• handpicked
• illuminati
• judge
• mark
• name
• nobility
• nominate
• of choice
• opt for
• optate
• pick
• pick out
• picked
• picked over
• pink
• prefer
• preferred
• preselect
• pride
• priesthood
• prime
• quality
• receive
• resolve
• royalty
• screened
• select
• selected
• set
• settle
• settle on
• single out
• society
• tab
• tag
• take
• tap
• top
• top drawer
• upper class
• upper crust
• vote
• vote for

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