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Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- importunity
collapse - insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" related words >
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- discourse,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- homily,
- hortation,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- lecture,
- lobbying,
- persuasion,
- preach,
- preachification,
- preachment,
- prelection,
- religious discourse,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- sermon,
- sermonette,
- sermonizing,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- travelogue,
- wheedling,
- working on
- sweet nothings
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- inconsequential expressions of affection; "he whispered sweet nothings into her ear" related words >
- adulation,
- artful endearments,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- caress,
- compliment,
- endearment,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- oil,
- palaver,
- pat,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- wheedling
- blarney
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- flattery designed to gain favor related words >
- adulation,
- banter,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- bunkum,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- compliment,
- con,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- oil,
- palaver,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft-soap,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sweet-talk,
- sycophancy,
- wheedle,
- wheedling
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- blandishment,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- chafing,
- coaxing,
- demanding,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- insistent,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- nagging,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Byzantine intrigues,
- allurement,
- backscratching,
- backstairs influence,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- coaxing,
- connections,
- conning,
- deals,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- games,
- hortation,
- inducement,
- influence peddling,
- intrigues,
- jawboning,
- lobbyism,
- logrolling,
- persuasion,
- ploys,
- political influence,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- public opinion,
- ropes,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- schemes,
- selling,
- snow job,
- social pressure,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- special-interest pressure,
- strings,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- wheedling,
- wire-pulling,
- wires,
- working on
- solicitation
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- the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
- request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
- an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief" related words >
- addresses,
- all-out campaign,
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- campaign,
- campaign button,
- campaign commitments,
- campaign contribution,
- campaign fund,
- canvass,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- courting,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- grass-roots campaign,
- hard-hitting campaign,
- harlotry,
- hortation,
- hurrah campaign,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- media campaign,
- pandering,
- persuasion,
- pimping,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prostitution,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- soliciting,
- streetwalking,
- stump excursion,
- stumping tour,
- suasion,
- suit,
- sweet talk,
- wheedling,
- whistle-stop campaign,
- whoredom,
- whoremastery,
- whoremonging,
- wooing,
- working on
- adulation
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- servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise related words >
- acclaim,
- accolade,
- apotheosis,
- applause,
- bepraisement,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- compliment,
- congratulation,
- deification,
- eloge,
- encomium,
- eulogium,
- eulogy,
- exaltation,
- excessive praise,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- glorification,
- glory,
- grease,
- hero worship,
- homage,
- hommage,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- honor,
- idolatry,
- idolizing,
- incense,
- kudos,
- laud,
- laudation,
- lionizing,
- magnification,
- meed of praise,
- oil,
- overpraise,
- paean,
- palaver,
- panegyric,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tribute,
- wheedling
- sycophancy
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- fawning obsequiousness related words >
- adulation,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backbiting,
- backscratching,
- backstabbing,
- belittlement,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calumny,
- compliment,
- cringing,
- defamation,
- depreciation,
- disparagement,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- grease,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- oil,
- palaver,
- parasitism,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- prostration,
- scandal,
- slander,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sponging,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- wheedling
- snow job
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- a long and elaborate misrepresentation related words >
- allurement,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blandishment,
- bluffing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- hortation,
- illusion,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- kidding,
- lobbying,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persuasion,
- phantasm,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- putting on,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- self-deception,
- selling,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- suasion,
- subterfuge,
- sweet talk,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wheedling,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- working on
- allurement
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- attractiveness; "its allurement was its remoteness" related words >
- adduction,
- adorability,
- affinity,
- agreeability,
- amiability,
- appeal,
- attractance,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- attractivity,
- bait,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call,
- capillarity,
- capillary attraction,
- centripetal force,
- charm,
- coaxing,
- come-on,
- conning,
- decoy,
- desirability,
- drag,
- draw,
- drawing power,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enticement,
- exhortation,
- gravitation,
- gravity,
- hortation,
- inducement,
- inveiglement,
- jawboning,
- likability,
- lobbying,
- lovability,
- loveliness,
- lovesomeness,
- lure,
- magnetism,
- mutual attraction,
- persuasion,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pull,
- pulling power,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- selling,
- snare,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- sweetness,
- sympathy,
- temptation,
- traction,
- trap,
- tug,
- wheedling,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- working on
- urgency
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- pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity related words >
- antecedence,
- antecedency,
- anteposition,
- anteriority,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- case of need,
- clutch,
- coaxing,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- crisis,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- dominion,
- drive,
- dunning,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- front position,
- high pressure,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importance,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- nagging,
- necessity,
- need,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pestering,
- pinch,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- precedence,
- precedency,
- preceding,
- precession,
- precursor,
- predicament,
- preference,
- prefixation,
- prelude,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- priority,
- prothesis,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- seriousness,
- stress,
- superiority,
- teasing,
- tension,
- the lead,
- top priority,
- urge,
- urgent need,
- urging,
- wheedling
- salesmanship
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- skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy; "he read a book on salesmanship but it didn't help" related words >
- advocacy,
- advocating,
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- bruiting,
- buildup,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- consumer preference study,
- consumer research,
- consumer survey,
- direct-mail selling,
- drumbeating,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- flack,
- hard sell,
- hawking,
- high-pressure salesmanship,
- hortation,
- huckstering,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- jobbing,
- lobbying,
- low-pressure salesmanship,
- mail-order selling,
- market research,
- marketing,
- marketing research,
- merchandising,
- peddling,
- persuasion,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- promoting,
- promotion,
- publicization,
- publicizing,
- retailing,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- sales talk,
- selling,
- sellout,
- snow job,
- soft sell,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- wheedling,
- wholesaling,
- working on
- sales talk
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- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- allurement,
- ballyhoo,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- chalk talk,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortation,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inducement,
- invective,
- jawboning,
- jeremiad,
- lobbying,
- oration,
- patter,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- persuasion,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales pitch,
- salesmanship,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- selling,
- set speech,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- wheedling,
- working on
- pressing
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- a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
- compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" related words >
- abetment,
- actuating,
- acute,
- animating,
- blandishment,
- burning,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- causal,
- causative,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coactive,
- coaxing,
- compelling,
- compulsatory,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- concentration,
- constraining,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- decoction,
- demanding,
- directive,
- distillation,
- draining,
- driving,
- dunning,
- encouragement,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- expression,
- extortionate,
- goading,
- grasping,
- grave,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- impelling,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulsive,
- inducive,
- infusion,
- insistence,
- insistent,
- instance,
- instant,
- irresistible,
- loud,
- major,
- momentous,
- motivating,
- motivational,
- motive,
- moving,
- nagging,
- needling,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- pivotal,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- portentous,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- profound,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- restraining,
- serious,
- significant,
- soaking,
- spurring,
- squeezing,
- steeping,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vital,
- wheedling
- adulation,
- balls,
- balm,
- baloney,
- balsam,
- bilge,
- blague,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bosh,
- brilliantine,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cerate,
- chrism,
- claptrap,
- cold cream,
- collyrium,
- compliment,
- crap,
- cream,
- demulcent,
- embrocation,
- emollient,
- eye-lotion,
- eyewater,
- face cream,
- fair words,
- fawning,
- flam,
- flattery,
- flimflam,
- gammon,
- grease,
- hand lotion,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- incense,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- jiggery-pokery,
- lanolin,
- lenitive,
- liniment,
- lotion,
- malarkey,
- moonshine,
- nard,
- oil,
- ointment,
- palaver,
- pomade,
- pomatum,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- rot,
- salve,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soothing syrup,
- spikenard,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- twaddle,
- unction,
- unguent,
- unguentum,
- vulnerary,
- wheedling
- enlistment
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- the act of enlisting (as in a military service)
- a period of time spent in military service related words >
- acceptance,
- admission,
- admittance,
- allurement,
- baptism,
- blandishment,
- booking,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call,
- call-up,
- cataloging,
- chronicling,
- coaxing,
- compulsory military service,
- conning,
- conscription,
- continuous tenure,
- draft,
- draft call,
- drafting,
- engagement,
- enrollment,
- entering,
- entry,
- exhortation,
- hitch,
- hortation,
- immission,
- impanelment,
- impressment,
- inauguration,
- indexing,
- inducement,
- induction,
- initiation,
- inscribing,
- inscription,
- insertion,
- installation,
- instatement,
- intromission,
- inventorying,
- investiture,
- jawboning,
- levy,
- listing,
- lobbying,
- logging,
- matriculation,
- mobilization,
- muster,
- ordination,
- persuasion,
- posting,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- prison term,
- record keeping,
- recordation,
- recording,
- recruiting,
- recruitment,
- register,
- registration,
- registry,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selective service,
- selling,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- stretch,
- suasion,
- summons,
- sweet talk,
- tabulation,
- tenure,
- term,
- time,
- tour,
- wheedling,
- working on
- adverse criticism,
- aggravating,
- animadversion,
- annoying,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blandishment,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- coaxing,
- criticism,
- demanding,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- exasperating,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- galling,
- hairsplitting,
- harassing,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- imputation,
- insistent,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- knock,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- overcriticalness,
- pesky,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- pettifogging,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- priggishness,
- provoking,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- trichoschistism,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Washingtonese,
- adulation,
- balls,
- baloney,
- big talk,
- bilge,
- blague,
- blah,
- blah-blah,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bop,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- claptrap,
- compliment,
- crap,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fancy talk,
- fawning,
- federalese,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flattery,
- flimflam,
- gammon,
- gas,
- gobbledygook,
- grease,
- guff,
- gup,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hooey,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- incense,
- jiggery-pokery,
- malarkey,
- moonshine,
- official jargon,
- officialese,
- oil,
- palaver,
- piffle,
- political doubletalk,
- poppycock,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- pussyfooting,
- rot,
- scat,
- shit,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tommyrot,
- tripe,
- wheedling,
- wind
- compliment
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- a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration
- say something to someone that expresses praise; "He complimented her on her last physics paper"
- express respect or esteem for related words >
- TL,
- acclaim,
- accolade,
- adulate,
- adulation,
- applaud,
- benevolence,
- beslobber,
- beslubber,
- best wishes,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bless,
- blessing,
- blessings,
- boon,
- bouquet,
- bunkum,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- commend,
- commendation,
- compliments,
- conceit,
- congratulate,
- congratulation,
- congratulations,
- encomium,
- eulogy,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- favor,
- fawn upon,
- fawning,
- felicitate,
- felicitation,
- flatter,
- flattering remark,
- flattery,
- give a bouquet,
- good wishes,
- gratulate,
- gratulation,
- grease,
- greetings,
- hail,
- hand it to,
- homage,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- honor,
- incense,
- largess,
- laud,
- laudation,
- make fair weather,
- oil,
- oil the tongue,
- orchids,
- palaver,
- pay a compliment,
- polite commendation,
- posy,
- praise,
- present,
- pretty lies,
- recommend,
- regards,
- rejoice with,
- respects,
- salutations,
- slobber over,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- take off,
- trade-last,
- tribute,
- wheedle,
- wheedling
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- catty,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chronic,
- coaxing,
- continual,
- continuous,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- distressing,
- dunning,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- fretful,
- hairsplitting,
- haunting,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- imputation,
- indelible,
- insistent,
- knock,
- naggy,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- obsessive,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- peevish,
- persistent,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- priggishness,
- querulous,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reflection,
- relentless,
- reproachfulness,
- resentful,
- shrewish,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- teasing,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- unforgettable,
- unrelenting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wheedling
- selling
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- the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money related words >
- accouterment,
- allurement,
- armament,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- catering,
- chandlery,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- consumer preference study,
- consumer research,
- consumer survey,
- direct-mail selling,
- endowment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- equipment,
- exhortation,
- finding,
- fitting out,
- furnishing,
- furnishment,
- hard sell,
- hawking,
- high-pressure salesmanship,
- hortation,
- huckstering,
- inducement,
- investment,
- jawboning,
- jobbing,
- lobbying,
- logistics,
- low-pressure salesmanship,
- mail-order selling,
- market,
- market research,
- marketing,
- marketing research,
- merchandising,
- outfitting,
- peddling,
- persuasion,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- preparation,
- procurement,
- promotion,
- providing,
- provision,
- provisioning,
- purveyance,
- reinforcement,
- replenishment,
- resupply,
- retail,
- retailing,
- sales,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sellout,
- snow job,
- soft sell,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- supply,
- supplying,
- sweet talk,
- victualing,
- wheedling,
- wholesale,
- wholesaling,
- working on
- Grade A,
- Washingtonese,
- adulation,
- applesauce,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- baloney,
- bang-up,
- big talk,
- bilge,
- blague,
- blah,
- blah-blah,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blue-ribbon,
- bop,
- bosh,
- boss,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- champion,
- claptrap,
- compliment,
- crap,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fancy talk,
- fawning,
- federalese,
- fine talk,
- first-string,
- fish story,
- fit,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flattery,
- flimflam,
- gammon,
- gas,
- gobbledygook,
- grease,
- guff,
- gup,
- hale,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hooey,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- incense,
- jiggery-pokery,
- malarkey,
- moonshine,
- official jargon,
- officialese,
- oil,
- palaver,
- piffle,
- political doubletalk,
- poppycock,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- pussyfooting,
- right,
- rot,
- sane,
- scat,
- shit,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sound,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tommyrot,
- top,
- top-notch,
- tripe,
- well,
- wheedling,
- wholesome,
- wind
- blandishment
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- the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
- flattery intended to persuade related words >
- adulation,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- artful endearments,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishments,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- caress,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- compliment,
- conning,
- dunning,
- enchantment,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fascination,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- magnetism,
- nagging,
- oil,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- selling,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tantalization,
- teasing,
- temptation,
- urgency,
- urging,
- wheedling,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- working on
- inducement
collapse
- act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep" related words >
- Trinkgeld,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- bait,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- bonus,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- carrot,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- come-on,
- conning,
- consideration,
- donative,
- double time,
- enchantment,
- encouragement,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- fascination,
- fee,
- fillip,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- honorarium,
- hortation,
- incentive,
- incentive pay,
- incitement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jawboning,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- liberality,
- lobbying,
- lure,
- magnetism,
- palm oil,
- payment,
- percentage,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- pourboire,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- premium,
- profit,
- provocation,
- reward,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- salve,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- selling,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- something extra,
- sportula,
- spur,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- tantalization,
- temptation,
- tip,
- wheedling,
- whet,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- working on
- adulation,
- adulatory,
- allurement,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blarneying,
- bunkum,
- buttery,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- complimentary,
- conning,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- demanding,
- dunning,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flattery,
- fulsome,
- grease,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insistent,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthed,
- nagging,
- obsequious,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- palaver,
- persuading,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soapy,
- soft soap,
- soft-soaping,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- suasive,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- teasing,
- unctuous,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- working on
- abject,
- adulation,
- adulatory,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- bunkum,
- buttery,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- compliant,
- compliment,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- envious,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fair-spoken,
- fawnery,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flattery,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- grease,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- incense,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insinuation,
- kowtowing,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- mean,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- palaver,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- praise,
- pretty lies,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- servile,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soap,
- soapy,
- soft soap,
- soft-soaping,
- spineless,
- sponging,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- sycophant,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- unctuous,
- wheedling,
- yielding
- exhortation
collapse
- a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action
- the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion related words >
- address,
- admonition,
- advice,
- advising,
- advocacy,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- briefing,
- bugle call,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call to arms,
- call-up,
- catchword,
- caution,
- caveat,
- chalk talk,
- clarion,
- clarion call,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- conscription,
- consultation,
- council,
- counsel,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- direction,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- eulogy,
- expostulation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- go for broke,
- guidance,
- gung ho,
- harangue,
- hortation,
- hortatory address,
- idea,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inducement,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jawboning,
- jeremiad,
- levy,
- lobbying,
- mobilization,
- monition,
- muster,
- opinion,
- oration,
- parley,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- persuasion,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- proposal,
- public speech,
- rally,
- rallying cry,
- reading,
- rebel yell,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recommendation,
- recruitment,
- remonstrance,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- selling,
- set speech,
- slogan,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- suasion,
- suggestion,
- sweet talk,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- thought,
- tirade,
- trumpet call,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- warning,
- watchword,
- wheedling,
- working on
- soft soap
collapse
- a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- be hypocritical,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- butter up,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- empty gesture,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- get around,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honey,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- jolly,
- kid along,
- lay it on,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overdo it,
- palaver,
- persuasion,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- play up to,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft words,
- soften up,
- solicitation,
- string along,
- stroke,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sweet-talk,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- work on,
- working on
- teasing
collapse
- playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing"
- arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile" related words >
- aggravating,
- alluring,
- annoying,
- appealing,
- appetizing,
- attractive,
- bantering,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- booing,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captivating,
- catcalling,
- catching,
- chaffing,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- coquettish,
- demanding,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disappointing,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- enravishing,
- enthralling,
- enticing,
- entrancing,
- exasperating,
- exciting,
- exotic,
- falling short,
- fascinating,
- fetching,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- flirtatious,
- fooling,
- galling,
- glamorous,
- grinning,
- harassing,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- hypnotic,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- insistent,
- interesting,
- intriguing,
- inviting,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irresistible,
- irritating,
- jeering,
- jesting,
- joking,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- mesmeric,
- mocking,
- mouth-watering,
- nagging,
- panning,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- piquant,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- prepossessing,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- provoquant,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- ravishing,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- second best,
- seducing,
- seductive,
- siren,
- sirenic,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- spellbinding,
- spellful,
- taking,
- tantalizing,
- taunting,
- tempting,
- tickling,
- tiresome,
- titillating,
- titillative,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- twitting,
- unsatisfactory,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- winning,
- winsome,
- witching,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- artful endearments,
- be hypocritical,
- bill and coo,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- caress,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- copulate,
- dally,
- empty gesture,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- neck,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pet,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smooch,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- solicitation,
- spoon,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- toy,
- trifle,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wanton,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- work on,
- working on
- praise
collapse
- an expression of approval and commendation; "he always appreciated praise for his work"
- offering words of homage as an act of worship; "they sang a hymn of praise to God"
- express approval of; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance" related words >
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- accolade,
- acknowledgment,
- adoration,
- adore,
- adulate,
- adulation,
- aggrandize,
- apotheosis,
- apotheosize,
- applaud,
- applause,
- approbation,
- approval,
- approve,
- belaud,
- benediction,
- bepraise,
- bepraisement,
- beslobber,
- beslubber,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- bless,
- bless the Lord,
- blow up,
- boast of,
- brag about,
- bunkum,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- celebrate,
- citation,
- cite,
- cognizance,
- commend,
- commendation,
- compliment,
- compliments,
- conceit,
- congratulation,
- credit,
- crediting,
- crown,
- crown with laurel,
- cry up,
- decorate,
- deification,
- deify,
- devotion,
- dignify,
- distinguish,
- do honor,
- doxologize,
- eloge,
- emblazon,
- encomium,
- endorse,
- endorsement,
- enhance,
- ennoble,
- erect,
- eulogium,
- eulogize,
- eulogy,
- exalt,
- exaltation,
- excessive praise,
- extol,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fawn upon,
- fawning,
- flatter,
- flattery,
- glorification,
- glorify,
- glorify the Lord,
- glory,
- grace,
- grease,
- hail,
- hallow,
- heighten,
- hero worship,
- hero-worship,
- homage,
- hommage,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- honor,
- honorable mention,
- hosanna,
- hymn,
- hymn of praise,
- idolatry,
- idolize,
- idolizing,
- incense,
- intensify,
- kudos,
- laud,
- laudation,
- lionize,
- lionizing,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make fair weather,
- make much of,
- meed of praise,
- mention,
- oil,
- oil the tongue,
- ovation,
- overpraise,
- paean,
- palaver,
- panegyric,
- panegyrize,
- pay homage to,
- pay regard to,
- pay tribute,
- pay tribute to,
- plaudits,
- porter aux nues,
- praise God,
- prayer of thanks,
- pretty lies,
- proclaim,
- psalm,
- psalmody,
- puff,
- puff up,
- recognition,
- recommend,
- render honor to,
- resound,
- revere,
- reverence,
- revile,
- salute,
- sing praises,
- slobber over,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- sublime,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- thank offering,
- thank-you,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving,
- tribute,
- trumpet,
- uprear,
- venerate,
- veneration,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- worship
- persuasion
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- the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action related words >
- adherents,
- affiliation,
- allurement,
- ascendancy,
- authority,
- belief,
- bias,
- blandishment,
- blood,
- body,
- branch,
- brand,
- breed,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cast,
- character,
- charisma,
- charm,
- church,
- clan,
- class,
- clout,
- coaxing,
- color,
- communion,
- community,
- confession,
- connection,
- conning,
- consequence,
- control,
- conversion,
- conviction,
- credit,
- creed,
- cult,
- denomination,
- description,
- designation,
- disciples,
- division,
- dominance,
- domination,
- effect,
- eminence,
- enchantment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- esteem,
- evangelization,
- exhortation,
- exhorting,
- eye,
- faction,
- faith,
- favor,
- feather,
- feeling,
- fellowship,
- fixed opinion,
- followers,
- force,
- form,
- genre,
- genus,
- good feeling,
- grain,
- group,
- hold,
- hortation,
- ilk,
- implicit belief,
- importance,
- incidental power,
- inducement,
- inducing,
- influence,
- influencing,
- influentiality,
- insinuation,
- ism,
- jawboning,
- kidney,
- kin,
- kind,
- label,
- leadership,
- leverage,
- line,
- lobbying,
- lot,
- magnetism,
- make,
- manner,
- mark,
- mastery,
- mature judgment,
- mind,
- mold,
- moment,
- nature,
- number,
- offshoot,
- opinion,
- order,
- organization,
- partiality,
- party,
- personality,
- persuading,
- phylum,
- potency,
- power,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- predilection,
- predominance,
- prejudice,
- preponderance,
- prepossession,
- pressure,
- prestige,
- proselytism,
- proselytization,
- purchase,
- race,
- reign,
- religion,
- religious order,
- repute,
- rule,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- say,
- schism,
- school,
- school of thought,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- segment,
- selling,
- sentiment,
- settled judgment,
- shape,
- snow job,
- society,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- sort,
- species,
- stamp,
- staunch belief,
- steadfast faith,
- strain,
- stripe,
- style,
- suasion,
- subtle influence,
- suggestion,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- sweet talk,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- tribe,
- type,
- unshaken confidence,
- upper hand,
- variety,
- version,
- view,
- weight,
- wheedling,
- whip hand,
- working on
- grease
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- a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
- lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels" related words >
- Trinkgeld,
- adulation,
- aid,
- animal oil,
- anoint,
- approach,
- beeswax,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blunt,
- bonus,
- boodle,
- bounty,
- brass,
- bread,
- bribe,
- bucks,
- bunkum,
- buy,
- buy off,
- cabbage,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cerate,
- chips,
- clear the way,
- compliment,
- consideration,
- corrupt,
- dab,
- daub,
- dinero,
- donative,
- double time,
- dough,
- drag,
- dress,
- drying oil,
- dub,
- ease,
- embrocate,
- equalize,
- essential oil,
- ester,
- even,
- expedite,
- explain,
- eyewash,
- facilitate,
- fair words,
- fat,
- fatty oil,
- fawning,
- fee,
- fix,
- fixed oil,
- flatten,
- flattery,
- gelt,
- get at,
- get to,
- gilt,
- glycerolate,
- grade,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease the palm,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- green,
- green stuff,
- harrow,
- hasten,
- help along,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- honorarium,
- hydrogenated fat,
- incense,
- incentive pay,
- inducement,
- jack,
- kale,
- lagniappe,
- lard,
- largess,
- lay,
- level,
- liberality,
- lipid,
- loose,
- lubricate,
- make clear,
- make way for,
- mazuma,
- mineral oil,
- moolah,
- mopus,
- mow,
- oil,
- oil of palms,
- ointment,
- oleum,
- oof,
- ooftish,
- open the way,
- open up,
- palaver,
- palm oil,
- pave the way,
- pay off,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- plane,
- planish,
- plaster,
- polyunsaturated fat,
- pomade,
- pourboire,
- praise,
- premium,
- prepare the way,
- pretty lies,
- purchase,
- quicken,
- reach,
- remove friction,
- rhino,
- rocks,
- run interference for,
- salve,
- sebum,
- shave,
- shekels,
- simoleons,
- simplify,
- slick,
- slick on,
- smear,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- smooth the way,
- soap,
- soap the ways,
- soft soap,
- something extra,
- speed,
- spondulics,
- sportula,
- suborn,
- sugar,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sweetener,
- sycophancy,
- take care of,
- tallow,
- tamper with,
- the needful,
- tickle the palm,
- tin,
- tip,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- unclog,
- unguent,
- unjam,
- unsaturated fat,
- vegetable oil,
- volatile oil,
- wampum,
- wax,
- wheedling
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