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aggressive self-confidence
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divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
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babble
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
give away
,
inform
,
inform on
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
peach
,
rat
,
reveal a secret
,
sing
,
spill
,
squeal
,
stool
,
talk
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
surety
collapse
something clearly established
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absolute certainty
,
absoluteness
,
acceptation
,
acception
,
acquiescence
,
angel
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
backer
,
bail
,
bailsman
,
belief
,
bond
,
bondsman
,
certain knowledge
,
certainness
,
certainty
,
certitude
,
clear sailing
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
courage
,
credence
,
credit
,
credulity
,
dead certainty
,
definiteness
,
dependence
,
determinacy
,
determinateness
,
earnest
,
earnest money
,
escrow
,
faith
,
gage
,
godfather
,
godparent
,
guarantee
,
guarantor
,
guaranty
,
handsel
,
harmlessness
,
hock
,
hope
,
hostage
,
hubris
,
immunity
,
indemnity
,
ineluctability
,
inerrability
,
inerrancy
,
inevitability
,
infallibilism
,
infallibility
,
insurance
,
insurer
,
invulnerability
,
mainpernor
,
mainprise
,
mortgagor
,
necessity
,
nonambiguity
,
noncontingency
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
patron
,
pawn
,
pignus
,
pledge
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
predestination
,
predetermination
,
pride
,
probatum
,
protection
,
proved fact
,
reception
,
recognizance
,
reliance
,
reliance on
,
replevin
,
replevy
,
risklessness
,
safeguard
,
safeness
,
safety
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
settled belief
,
sponsor
,
stock
,
stocks and bonds
,
store
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
suspension of disbelief
,
tie
,
token payment
,
trust
,
truth
,
unambiguity
,
undertaking
,
underwriter
,
unequivocalness
,
univocity
,
unmistakableness
,
vadimonium
,
vadium
,
warrant
,
warrantor
,
warranty
conceit
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the trait of being unduly vain and conceited
an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
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abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
affectation
,
aggressive self-confidence
,
amour propre
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
apprehension
,
arrogance
,
assume
,
assumption
,
assurance
,
attitude
,
bee
,
believe
,
bluster
,
boast
,
boastfulness
,
boasting
,
bombast
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
brag
,
braggadocio
,
braggartism
,
bragging
,
brainstorm
,
brainwork
,
bravado
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
bumptiousness
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cerebration
,
chestiness
,
climate of opinion
,
cockiness
,
cogitation
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
complacence
,
complacency
,
conceitedness
,
conceive
,
concept
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conclusion
,
consensus gentium
,
consequence
,
consideration
,
coxcombry
,
crack
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
creative thought
,
crotchet
,
dandyism
,
egoism
,
egotism
,
epigram
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
excogitation
,
expect
,
eye
,
face
,
facetiae
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fanfaronade
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasticism
,
fantasy
,
feeling
,
flash of wit
,
flight of fancy
,
flight of wit
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
foppery
,
foppishness
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
fumes of fancy
,
gasconade
,
gasconism
,
gather
,
general belief
,
gibe
,
happy thought
,
harebrained idea
,
haughtiness
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
heroics
,
humor
,
idea
,
ideation
,
image
,
imageless thought
,
imagination
,
imaginativeness
,
imagine
,
imagining
,
imago
,
immodesty
,
impression
,
independence
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual object
,
intellectualization
,
jactation
,
jactitation
,
judgment
,
kink
,
lights
,
maggot
,
megrim
,
memory-trace
,
mental act
,
mental image
,
mental impression
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
mind
,
mot
,
mystique
,
narcissism
,
nasty crack
,
noesis
,
notion
,
observation
,
obtrusiveness
,
opinion
,
pardonable pride
,
passing fancy
,
perception
,
perkiness
,
persiflage
,
personal judgment
,
pertness
,
play of wit
,
pleasantry
,
point of view
,
pomposity
,
popular belief
,
position
,
posture
,
presumption
,
prevailing belief
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
puppyism
,
purse-pride
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
quirk
,
ratiocination
,
reaction
,
reasoning
,
recept
,
reckon
,
reflection
,
repartee
,
representation
,
retort
,
riposte
,
rodomontade
,
sally
,
scintillation
,
self-admiration
,
self-assertiveness
,
self-complacency
,
self-conceit
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-love
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
sentiment
,
side
,
sight
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
smugness
,
snappy comeback
,
stance
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
straight thinking
,
stroke of wit
,
stuffiness
,
suppose
,
supposition
,
swagger
,
swelled head
,
swelled-headedness
,
theory
,
think
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
toy
,
turn of thought
,
vagary
,
vainglory
,
vainness
,
vanity
,
vaunt
,
vauntery
,
vaunting
,
view
,
way of thinking
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
bearish
collapse
expecting prices to fall
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abrupt
,
aggressive
,
beastly
,
bitchy
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
brash
,
brusque
,
cankered
,
cantankerous
,
cavalier
,
churlish
,
crabbed
,
cranky
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crotchety
,
crusty
,
curt
,
cussed
,
disagreeable
,
excitable
,
feisty
,
fractious
,
gruff
,
harsh
,
huffish
,
huffy
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
mean
,
ornery
,
perverse
,
rough
,
severe
,
sharp
,
short
,
snappish
,
snippy
,
spiteful
,
spleeny
,
splenetic
,
surly
,
testy
,
truculent
,
ugly
,
vinegarish
,
vinegary
,
waspish
factious
collapse
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aggressive
,
alienated
,
argumentative
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
breakaway
,
combative
,
conflicting
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contumacious
,
disaffected
,
discordant
,
disputatious
,
divisive
,
eristic
,
estranged
,
extreme
,
extremistic
,
factional
,
fighting
,
insurgent
,
insurrectionary
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
litigious
,
mutineering
,
mutinous
,
partisan
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
rebel
,
rebellious
,
refractory
,
revolutional
,
revolutionary
,
riotous
,
seditionary
,
seditious
,
shrewish
,
subversive
,
traitorous
,
treasonable
,
turbulent
,
warring
,
wrangling
venturesome
collapse
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adventuresome
,
adventurous
,
aggressive
,
aleatory
,
ambitious
,
audacious
,
bold
,
brave
,
chancy
,
courageous
,
daredevil
,
daring
,
determined
,
dicey
,
doughty
,
driving
,
dynamic
,
enterprising
,
experimental
,
fearless
,
foolhardy
,
forceful
,
full of risk
,
game
,
go-ahead
,
hazardous
,
hustling
,
intrepid
,
overbold
,
plucky
,
pushful
,
pushing
,
pushy
,
rash
,
reckless
,
resolute
,
riskful
,
risky
,
speculative
,
spirited
,
sporting
,
stalwart
,
stout
,
sturdy
,
temerarious
,
tentative
,
trial
,
up-and-coming
,
venturous
,
wildcat
,
willing
self-doubt
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Pyrrhonism
,
apprehension
,
diffidence
,
distrust
,
distrustfulness
,
doubt
,
doubtfulness
,
dubiety
,
dubiousness
,
half-belief
,
lack of self-confidence
,
lack of self-reliance
,
leeriness
,
misdoubt
,
misgiving
,
mistrust
,
mistrustfulness
,
question
,
scruple
,
scrupulousness
,
self-depreciation
,
self-detraction
,
self-distrust
,
self-effacement
,
shadow of doubt
,
skepticalness
,
skepticism
,
suspicion
,
suspiciousness
,
total skepticism
,
uncertainty
,
wariness
,
weak ego
equilibrium
collapse
a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
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accordance
,
aplomb
,
assurance
,
balance
,
balanced personality
,
beauty
,
bilateral symmetry
,
calm
,
coequality
,
coextension
,
communion
,
community
,
concinnity
,
confidence
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
consistency
,
consonance
,
constancy
,
continuity
,
cool
,
corelation
,
correlation
,
correlativism
,
correlativity
,
correspondence
,
counterbalance
,
counterpoise
,
dynamic symmetry
,
equability
,
equality
,
equanimity
,
equation
,
equipoise
,
equipollence
,
equiponderance
,
equity
,
equivalence
,
equivalency
,
euphony
,
eurythmics
,
eurythmy
,
evenness
,
fastness
,
finish
,
firmness
,
harmony
,
homeostasis
,
homogeneity
,
identity
,
imperturbability
,
invariability
,
inverse proportion
,
inverse ratio
,
inverse relationship
,
justice
,
keeping
,
level head
,
levelheadedness
,
levelness
,
likeness
,
measure
,
measuredness
,
monolithism
,
multilateral symmetry
,
mutuality
,
nerve
,
order
,
orderedness
,
par
,
parallelism
,
parity
,
persistence
,
poise
,
polarity
,
possession
,
presence of mind
,
proportion
,
proportionality
,
reciprocality
,
reciprocation
,
reciprocity
,
regularity
,
relativity
,
reliability
,
restraint
,
rhythm
,
rootedness
,
sang-froid
,
secureness
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-command
,
self-confidence
,
self-control
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
shapeliness
,
solidity
,
soundness
,
stability
,
stabilization
,
stable equilibrium
,
stable state
,
stasis
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
steady nerves
,
steady state
,
substantiality
,
sweetness
,
symmetricalness
,
symmetry
,
trilateral symmetry
,
undeflectability
,
uniformity
,
unity
,
unruffledness
,
unshakable nerves
,
unshakableness
,
well-regulated mind
esoterica
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secrets known only to an initiated minority
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abstruseness
,
arcanum
,
cabala
,
classified information
,
complexity
,
complication
,
confidence
,
confidential communication
,
crabbedness
,
crampedness
,
deepness
,
difficulty
,
enigma
,
guarded secret
,
hardness
,
hermetics
,
intricacy
,
knottiness
,
mystery
,
mystery of mysteries
,
personal matter
,
private matter
,
privileged communication
,
privity
,
profound secret
,
profoundness
,
profundity
,
reconditeness
,
restricted information
,
sealed book
,
secret
,
the occult
bunco artist
collapse
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bunco steerer
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
carpetbagger
,
con artist
,
con man
,
confidence man
,
crimp
,
horse coper
,
horse trader
,
jackleg
,
land pirate
,
land shark
,
land-grabber
,
mortgage shark
,
pettifogger
,
pitchman
,
shark
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
shortchanger
,
shyster
,
slicker
,
spieler
carpetbagger
collapse
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
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bunco artist
,
bunco steerer
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
con artist
,
con man
,
confidence man
,
crimp
,
horse coper
,
horse trader
,
jackleg
,
land pirate
,
land shark
,
land-grabber
,
mortgage shark
,
pettifogger
,
pitchman
,
shark
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
shortchanger
,
shyster
,
slicker
,
spieler
con artist
collapse
related words >
bunco artist
,
bunco steerer
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
carpetbagger
,
con man
,
confidence man
,
crimp
,
horse coper
,
horse trader
,
jackleg
,
land pirate
,
land shark
,
land-grabber
,
mortgage shark
,
pettifogger
,
pitchman
,
shark
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
shortchanger
,
shyster
,
slicker
,
spieler
vibrant
collapse
of colors that are bright and striking
of sounds that are strong and resonating; "the men's vibrant voices"
vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance"
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active
,
acute
,
aggressive
,
animated
,
brisk
,
consonant
,
dynamic
,
energetic
,
enterprising
,
enthusiastic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
full
,
full of pep
,
go-go
,
hearty
,
impetuous
,
incisive
,
intense
,
keen
,
kinetic
,
lively
,
living
,
lusty
,
mellow
,
mettlesome
,
orotund
,
peppy
,
plangent
,
pulsing
,
resonant
,
resonating
,
resounding
,
rich
,
ringing
,
robust
,
rolling
,
rotund
,
round
,
smacking
,
snappy
,
sonorous
,
spanking
,
spirited
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
take-charge
,
take-over
,
throbbing
,
trenchant
,
vibrating
,
vigorous
,
vivacious
,
vivid
,
zestful
,
zesty
,
zippy
warlike
collapse
suggesting war or military life
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aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
combative
,
contending
,
contentious
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
disputant
,
enemy
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
inimical
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
martial
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
striving
,
struggling
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
warmongering
,
warring
shrewish
collapse
continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
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aggressive
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
beyond control
,
bickering
,
breachy
,
catty
,
combative
,
contumacious
,
defiant
,
disputatious
,
divisive
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
fractious
,
fretful
,
incorrigible
,
indocile
,
indomitable
,
insuppressible
,
intractable
,
irascible
,
irrepressible
,
irritable
,
litigious
,
nagging
,
naggy
,
obstreperous
,
out of hand
,
partisan
,
peevish
,
pettish
,
petulant
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
querulous
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
resentful
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
restive
,
unbiddable
,
uncontrollable
,
ungovernable
,
unmalleable
,
unmanageable
,
unmoldable
,
unruly
,
unsubmissive
,
vixenish
,
vixenly
,
wild
,
wrangling
without doubt
collapse
related words >
actually
,
admittedly
,
assuredly
,
believingly
,
beyond doubt
,
beyond question
,
certainly
,
clearly
,
decidedly
,
demonstrably
,
devoutly
,
doubtless
,
doubtlessly
,
for a certainty
,
for real
,
in all conscience
,
incontestably
,
indeed
,
indisputably
,
indubitably
,
irrefragably
,
irrefutably
,
manifestly
,
no doubt
,
noticeably
,
observably
,
obviously
,
on faith
,
on trust
,
out of question
,
patently
,
piously
,
positively
,
quite
,
really
,
sensibly
,
seriously
,
truly
,
trustfully
,
trustingly
,
unambiguously
,
undeniably
,
undoubtedly
,
undoubtfully
,
undoubtingly
,
unmistakably
,
unquestionably
,
unquestioningly
,
unsuspectingly
,
unsuspiciously
,
upon trust
,
verily
,
visibly
,
with confidence
,
with faith
tell on
collapse
produce an affect or strain on somebody; "Each step told on his tired legs"
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babble
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
bear witness against
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blow the whistle
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
fink
,
give away
,
inform
,
inform against
,
inform on
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
narc
,
peach
,
rat
,
reveal a secret
,
sell out
,
sing
,
snitch
,
snitch on
,
spill
,
spill the beans
,
squeal
,
stool
,
talk
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
,
testify against
,
turn informer
confidence man
collapse
a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
related words >
bunco artist
,
bunco steerer
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
carpetbagger
,
con artist
,
con man
,
crimp
,
defrauder
,
diddler
,
gyp
,
horse coper
,
horse trader
,
jackleg
,
land pirate
,
land shark
,
land-grabber
,
mortgage shark
,
pettifogger
,
pitchman
,
shark
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
shortchanger
,
shyster
,
slicker
,
spieler
,
trickster
boiler room
collapse
related words >
Klaxon
,
boiler factory
,
brokerage
,
brokerage house
,
brokerage office
,
bucket shop
,
bull-roarer
,
bunco game
,
catcall
,
cherry bomb
,
clack
,
clacker
,
clapper
,
con game
,
confidence game
,
cracker
,
cricket
,
firecracker
,
goldbrick
,
horn
,
noisemaker
,
rattle
,
rattlebox
,
shell game
,
siren
,
skin game
,
snapper
,
steam whistle
,
stockbrokerage
,
thimblerig
,
thimblerigging
,
ticktack
,
whistle
,
whizgig
,
whizzer
twister
collapse
related words >
apple fritter
,
baguio
,
beignet
,
beignet aux pommes
,
bismarck
,
cheat
,
con man
,
confidence man
,
crook
,
cruller
,
cyclone
,
deceiver
,
doughnut
,
dust devil
,
fastnacht
,
fraud
,
friedcake
,
fritter
,
hurricane
,
imposter
,
impostor
,
mountebank
,
olykoek
,
rainspout
,
raised doughnut
,
rogue
,
rotary storm
,
sand column
,
sandspout
,
scoundrel
,
sinker
,
swindler
,
tornado
,
trickster
,
typhoon
,
waterspout
,
whirlblast
,
whirlwind
,
wind eddy
cabala
collapse
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret
related words >
anagoge
,
anagogics
,
anthroposophy
,
arcanum
,
cabalism
,
classified information
,
confidence
,
confidential communication
,
enigma
,
esoterica
,
esotericism
,
esoterics
,
esoterism
,
esotery
,
guarded secret
,
hermetics
,
hocus-pocus
,
mumbo jumbo
,
mystery
,
mystery of mysteries
,
mysticism
,
mystification
,
occultism
,
personal matter
,
private matter
,
privileged communication
,
privity
,
profound secret
,
restricted information
,
sealed book
,
secret
,
symbolics
,
symbolism
,
the occult
,
yoga
,
yogeeism
,
yogism
martial
collapse
Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)
related words >
aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
brave
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
combative
,
contentious
,
courageous
,
enemy
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
high-spirited
,
hostile
,
inimical
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
mettlesome
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
spirited
,
stalwart
,
staunch
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
valiant
,
valorous
,
warlike
,
warmongering
,
warring
pitchman
collapse
an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something
related words >
ballyhoo man
,
ballyhooer
,
barker
,
bunco artist
,
bunco steerer
,
canvasser
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
carpetbagger
,
con artist
,
con man
,
confidence man
,
crimp
,
horse coper
,
horse trader
,
jackleg
,
land pirate
,
land shark
,
land-grabber
,
mortgage shark
,
pettifogger
,
shark
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
shortchanger
,
shyster
,
slicker
,
solicitor
,
spieler
,
tout
,
touter
let drop
collapse
related words >
allude to
,
babble
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
call attention to
,
comment
,
drop
,
exclaim
,
give away
,
inform
,
inform on
,
interject
,
leak
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
make reference to
,
mention
,
muse
,
note
,
observe
,
opine
,
peach
,
rat
,
refer to
,
reflect
,
remark
,
reveal a secret
,
sing
,
speak
,
spill
,
spill the beans
,
squeal
,
stool
,
talk
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
smacking
collapse
related words >
active
,
activist
,
activistic
,
acute
,
aggressive
,
alive
,
animated
,
bouncing
,
bouncy
,
breezy
,
brisk
,
bubbly
,
chipper
,
dynamic
,
ebullient
,
effervescent
,
energetic
,
enterprising
,
enthusiastic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
frisky
,
full of go
,
full of life
,
full of pep
,
go-go
,
hearty
,
impetuous
,
incisive
,
intense
,
keen
,
kinetic
,
live
,
lively
,
living
,
lusty
,
mercurial
,
mettlesome
,
militant
,
peppy
,
perky
,
pert
,
quicksilver
,
robust
,
snappy
,
spanking
,
spirited
,
sprightly
,
spry
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
take-charge
,
take-over
,
trenchant
,
vibrant
,
vigorous
,
vivacious
,
vivid
,
zestful
,
zesty
,
zingy
,
zippy
disputatious
collapse
related words >
aggressive
,
argumental
,
argumentative
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
cat-and-dog
,
cat-and-doggish
,
combative
,
complaining
,
contentious
,
controversial
,
dialectic
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
divisive
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
fractious
,
ill-humored
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
litigious
,
logomachic
,
noncooperative
,
objecting
,
obstructive
,
on the barricades
,
partisan
,
pilpulistic
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
polemical
,
pro and con
,
proof against
,
protesting
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
reluctant
,
renitent
,
repellent
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
scrappy
,
shrewish
,
uncooperative
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
up in arms
,
withstanding
,
wrangling
shell game
collapse
a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
related words >
bingo
,
boiler room
,
bucket shop
,
bunco game
,
card games
,
chuck and toss
,
chuck farthing
,
chuck-a-luck
,
con game
,
confidence game
,
crack-loo
,
crap game
,
crap shooting
,
craps
,
fan-tan
,
goldbrick
,
hazard
,
horse racing
,
keno
,
lotto
,
pinball
,
pitch and toss
,
policy
,
rouge et noir
,
roulette
,
skin game
,
sweepstake
,
sweepstakes
,
the numbers
,
the numbers game
,
thimblerig
,
thimblerigging
,
trente-et-quarante
self-control
collapse
the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
acceptance
,
aplomb
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
assurance
,
balance
,
calm
,
calmness
,
check
,
composure
,
confidence
,
conservatism
,
constancy
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
coolness
,
curb
,
curtailment
,
deceleration
,
denial
,
determination
,
dignity
,
discipline
,
dispassion
,
doggedness
,
endurance
,
equability
,
equanimity
,
equilibrium
,
even temper
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
fortitude
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
hindrance
,
impartiality
,
imperturbability
,
independence
,
indulgence
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
legal restraint
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenity
,
level head
,
level-headedness
,
levelheadedness
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
meden agan
,
mettle
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monopoly
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
obduracy
,
pacifism
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
placidity
,
poise
,
possession
,
presence of mind
,
prohibition
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
protective tariff
,
prudence
,
rationing
,
rein
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
reserve
,
resoluteness
,
resolve
,
restraint
,
restraint of trade
,
retardation
,
retrenchment
,
self-abnegation
,
self-assurance
,
self-command
,
self-confidence
,
self-conquest
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-government
,
self-mastery
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
slowing down
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
sweet reasonableness
,
tariff wall
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thought control
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
via media
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
well-regulated mind
,
will
,
willpower
blurt
collapse
related words >
allude to
,
babble
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blurt out
,
burst out
,
call attention to
,
comment
,
disclose
,
divulge
,
ejaculate
,
exclaim
,
give away
,
inform
,
inform on
,
interject
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
make reference to
,
mention
,
muse
,
note
,
observe
,
opine
,
peach
,
rat
,
refer to
,
reflect
,
remark
,
reveal
,
reveal a secret
,
sing
,
speak
,
spill
,
spill the beans
,
squeal
,
stool
,
talk
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
,
utter
bellicose
collapse
related words >
aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
assertive
,
battling
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
combative
,
contentious
,
disputatious
,
divisive
,
enemy
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
inimical
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
litigious
,
martial
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
partisan
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pugnacious
,
quarrelsome
,
rebellious
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
shrewish
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
warlike
,
warmongering
,
warring
,
wrangling
credible
collapse
appearing to merit belief or acceptance; "a credible witness"
capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information"
a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate; "she was not the...credible fool he expected"
related words >
acknowledgment
,
admissible
,
asset
,
attention
,
authority
,
believable
,
cogent
,
colorable
,
conceivable
,
conclusive
,
confidence
,
convincing
,
credence
,
credit
,
creditable
,
determinative
,
distinction
,
faith
,
faithful
,
fame
,
fiduciary
,
glory
,
honor
,
just
,
justifiable
,
kudos
,
legitimate
,
likely
,
logical
,
notice
,
plausible
,
prestige
,
probable
,
rational
,
reasonable
,
recognition
,
reliable
,
reliance
,
renown
,
reputation
,
repute
,
sane
,
satisfactory
,
satisfying
,
sensible
,
solid
,
sound
,
straight
,
tenable
,
trust
,
trustworthy
,
trusty
,
unexceptionable
,
unimpeachable
,
unquestionable
,
valid
,
weight
,
well-argued
,
well-founded
,
well-grounded
,
wholesome
,
worthy of faith
mimicry
collapse
the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
related words >
acting
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
caricature
,
characterization
,
cryptic mimicry
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
miming
,
mock
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
playing possum
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
protective coloration
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
taking a role
take charge
collapse
related words >
active
,
acute
,
aggressive
,
animated
,
arrogate
,
assume
,
assume command
,
be able
,
be up to
,
brisk
,
can
,
can do
,
cut it
,
cut the mustard
,
dynamic
,
energetic
,
enterprising
,
enthusiastic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
full of pep
,
go-go
,
hack it
,
hearty
,
impetuous
,
incisive
,
intense
,
keen
,
kinetic
,
lively
,
living
,
lusty
,
make it
,
make the grade
,
may
,
mettlesome
,
mount the throne
,
peppy
,
possess authority
,
robust
,
seize
,
seize power
,
seize the throne
,
smacking
,
snappy
,
spanking
,
spirited
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
take command
,
take over
,
take the helm
,
take the lead
,
take-over
,
trenchant
,
usurp
,
vibrant
,
vigorous
,
vivacious
,
vivid
,
zestful
,
zesty
,
zippy
adventurous
collapse
willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
related words >
adventuresome
,
adversary
,
aggressive
,
aleatory
,
ambitious
,
antagonist
,
anti
,
assaulter
,
attacker
,
audacious
,
bold
,
brash
,
brave
,
chancy
,
con
,
courageous
,
daredevil
,
daring
,
death-defying
,
devil-may-care
,
dicey
,
doughty
,
driving
,
dynamic
,
enterprising
,
fire-eating
,
foolhardy
,
forceful
,
forward
,
full of risk
,
go-ahead
,
harebrained
,
hazardous
,
hotheaded
,
hustling
,
impetuous
,
imprudent
,
intrepid
,
madbrain
,
madbrained
,
madcap
,
match
,
opposer
,
oppugnant
,
overbold
,
overconfident
,
presumptuous
,
pushful
,
pushing
,
pushy
,
rash
,
reckless
,
riskful
,
risky
,
speculative
,
temerarious
,
up-and-coming
,
venturesome
,
venturous
,
wild
,
wild-ass
,
wildcat
pride
collapse
unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; "he takes pride in his son's success"
a group of lions
be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
related words >
Olympian detachment
,
Olympian loftiness
,
acedia
,
anger
,
army
,
arrogance
,
arrogantness
,
assumption of superiority
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
avarice
,
avaritia
,
be proud of
,
belief
,
best
,
bighead
,
boast
,
boastfulness
,
brag
,
bunch
,
catch
,
celebrate
,
certitude
,
circumstance
,
cockiness
,
cocksureness
,
colony
,
conceit
,
condescendence
,
condescension
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
congratulate
,
conviction
,
courage
,
crow
,
deadly sin
,
delight in
,
diamond
,
dignity
,
domineering
,
domineeringness
,
drift
,
drive
,
drove
,
egoism
,
egotism
,
envy
,
faith
,
felicitate
,
find
,
flock
,
flower
,
formality
,
gam
,
gang
,
gasconade
,
gem
,
glory in
,
gluttony
,
godsend
,
good thing
,
greed
,
gula
,
haughtiness
,
haughty airs
,
hauteur
,
heraldry
,
herd
,
high horse
,
hoity-toitiness
,
hoity-toity
,
honor
,
host
,
hubris
,
invidia
,
ira
,
jewel
,
kennel
,
litter
,
loftiness
,
lust
,
luxuria
,
overbearing pride
,
overbearingness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweening pride
,
overweeningness
,
pack
,
patronization
,
patronizing
,
patronizing attitude
,
pearl
,
pique
,
plum
,
plume
,
pod
,
poise
,
pomp
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
preen
,
pride and joy
,
prize
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
revel in
,
school
,
security
,
self-admiration
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-love
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
settled belief
,
shoal
,
side
,
skulk
,
sloth
,
smugness
,
snobbery
,
snobbishness
,
solemnity
,
state
,
stiff-necked pride
,
subjective certainty
,
superbia
,
sureness
,
surety
,
take pride in
,
toploftiness
,
treasure
,
trip
,
troop
,
trophy
,
trouvaille
,
trust
,
uppishness
,
uppityness
,
vainglory
,
vanity
,
vaunt
,
windfall
,
winner
,
wrath
emphatic
collapse
forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"
sudden and strong; "an emphatic no"
spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"
related words >
absolute
,
accented
,
accentuated
,
affirmative
,
affirmatory
,
aggressive
,
ardent
,
assertative
,
assertional
,
assertive
,
burning
,
categorical
,
certain
,
decided
,
declarative
,
declaratory
,
definite
,
definitive
,
determined
,
direct
,
distinct
,
dogged
,
dogmatic
,
earnest
,
emphasized
,
energetic
,
enthusiastic
,
exciting
,
explicit
,
express
,
fervent
,
fiery
,
firm
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
glowing
,
impassioned
,
in red letters
,
incisive
,
insistent
,
intense
,
italicized
,
marked
,
passionate
,
peremptory
,
pointed
,
positive
,
predicational
,
predicative
,
pronounced
,
provoking
,
punctuated
,
resolute
,
resounding
,
specific
,
starred
,
stimulating
,
stirring
,
stressed
,
strong
,
sure
,
unambiguous
,
uncompromising
,
underlined
,
underscored
,
unequivocal
,
unmistakable
,
urgent
,
vehement
,
vigorous
,
warm
self-respect
collapse
related words >
amour propre
,
amour-propre
,
arrogance
,
autoeroticism
,
boastfulness
,
complacency
,
conceit
,
consequentiality
,
dignity
,
ego trip
,
face
,
haughtiness
,
honor
,
independence
,
integrity
,
morale
,
narcism
,
narcissism
,
overproudness
,
overweening pride
,
pardonable pride
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
self-admiration
,
self-approbation
,
self-complacency
,
self-confidence
,
self-congratulation
,
self-consequence
,
self-content
,
self-delight
,
self-endearment
,
self-esteem
,
self-gratulation
,
self-importance
,
self-infatuation
,
self-love
,
self-regard
,
self-reliance
,
self-satisfaction
,
self-sufficiency
,
self-worship
,
smugness
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
vaingloriousness
,
vainglory
,
vainness
,
vanity
defiant
collapse
boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
related words >
aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
arrogant
,
audacious
,
belligerent
,
beyond control
,
bold
,
brash
,
brassy
,
brazen
,
breachy
,
bumptious
,
challenging
,
cheeky
,
cocky
,
contemptuous
,
contumacious
,
daring
,
defying
,
derisive
,
disdainful
,
disobedient
,
disregardful
,
fractious
,
greatly daring
,
gutsy
,
headstrong
,
hostile
,
impatient of control
,
impertinent
,
impudent
,
incorrigible
,
indocile
,
indomitable
,
insolent
,
insubordinate
,
insuppressible
,
intractable
,
irrepressible
,
mutinous
,
obstinate
,
obstreperous
,
ornery
,
out of hand
,
pert
,
pugnacious
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
regardless of consequences
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
restive
,
saucy
,
self-willed
,
shrewish
,
spunky
,
stubborn
,
unbiddable
,
uncontrollable
,
ungovernable
,
unmalleable
,
unmanageable
,
unmoldable
,
unruly
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
wild
pugnacious
collapse
ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
related words >
aggressive
,
antagonistic
,
battling
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bickering
,
bloodthirsty
,
bloody
,
bloody-minded
,
brawling
,
chauvinist
,
chauvinistic
,
combative
,
contentious
,
disputatious
,
divisive
,
enemy
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
fight
,
fighting
,
full of fight
,
hawkish
,
hostile
,
inimical
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
jingo
,
jingoish
,
jingoist
,
jingoistic
,
litigious
,
martial
,
militant
,
militaristic
,
military
,
offensive
,
partisan
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
pushing
,
pushy
,
quarrelsome
,
rebellious
,
saber-rattling
,
sanguinary
,
sanguineous
,
savage
,
scrappy
,
self-assertive
,
shrewish
,
soldierlike
,
soldierly
,
trigger-happy
,
truculent
,
unfriendly
,
unpacific
,
unpeaceable
,
unpeaceful
,
warlike
,
warmongering
,
warring
,
wrangling
peppy
collapse
related words >
active
,
activist
,
activistic
,
acute
,
aggressive
,
alert
,
alive
,
animate
,
animated
,
bouncing
,
bouncy
,
breezy
,
bright
,
brisk
,
bubbly
,
chipper
,
dynamic
,
ebullient
,
effervescent
,
energetic
,
enterprising
,
enthusiastic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
frisky
,
full of go
,
full of life
,
full of pep
,
gay
,
go-go
,
hearty
,
impetuous
,
incisive
,
intense
,
keen
,
kinetic
,
live
,
lively
,
living
,
lusty
,
mercurial
,
mettlesome
,
militant
,
perky
,
pert
,
piquant
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
quicksilver
,
racy
,
robust
,
smacking
,
snappy
,
spanking
,
sparkling
,
spirited
,
sprightly
,
spry
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
take-charge
,
take-over
,
trenchant
,
vibrant
,
vigorous
,
vivacious
,
vivid
,
zestful
,
zesty
,
zingy
,
zippy
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