noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ great
▪ active , creative , fertile , lively , rich , strong , vivid
▪ fevered , overactive , overheated , wild
▪
It's just a product of your fevered ~!
▪ limited
▪
a movie of such limited ~
▪ collective , popular , public
▪
a popular hero who inspired the collective ~
▪ visual
▪
I was no good at art—I have a very poor visual ~.
▪ artistic , cultural , historical , literary , musical , poetic , political , romantic
▪
It requires a strong effort of historical ~ to understand the Roman attitude to death.
▪ moral ( esp. AmE ), religious
▪
an education that stimulates the moral ~
▪ human
▪
the powers of the human ~
▪ pure
VERB + IMAGINATION
▪ have
▪ show
▪ lack
▪
Today's music lacks ~.
▪ require , take
▪
It does not take great ~ to guess what happened next.
▪ use
▪
I don't have a picture of this, so you'll just have to use your ~.
▪ captivate , capture , catch , excite , feed , fire , fuel , grab ( esp. BrE ), ignite , inspire , seize , spark , stimulate , stir
▪
19th-century writers fired the popular ~ with their tales of adventure.
▪ engage , grip
▪ haunt
▪
The film haunted the ~s of viewers.
▪ exercise , stretch
▪ defy
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The scale of the disaster defied ~ (= was greater than you could imagine) .
▪ leave sth to
▪
As for their reaction, I'll leave that to your ~!
IMAGINATION + VERB
▪ conjure sth up
▪
His ~ conjured up a vision of the normal family life he had never had.
▪ play tricks on you , run away with you , run riot ( esp. BrE ), run wild , work
▪
Was it only her ~ playing tricks on her?
PREPOSITION
▪ beyond (your) ~
▪
misery that is beyond most people's ~
▪ in the/your ~
▪
Nobody hates you—it's all in your ~!
▪ with ~ , without ~
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He was totally without ~.
PHRASES
▪ a lack of ~
▪ a figment of sb's ~ , a product of sb's ~
▪
The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her ~.
▪ by no stretch of the ~ , not by any stretch of the ~
▪
Not by any stretch of the ~ could she be called beautiful (= she was definitely not beautiful in any way) .
▪ with a little ~
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With a little ~ you can create a delicious meal from yesterday's leftovers.
▪ a hold on the/sb's ~
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the Pyramids retain a remarkable hold on the human ~.