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- tier
collapse - one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"
- something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"
- a worker who ties something
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another related words >
- Indian file,
- array,
- articulation,
- band,
- bank,
- bed,
- bedding,
- belt,
- buzz,
- category,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- couche,
- course,
- cycle,
- deck,
- descent,
- drone,
- echelon,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- file,
- filiation,
- floor,
- gallery,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- grade,
- group,
- grouping,
- hum,
- layer,
- league,
- ledge,
- level,
- line,
- lineage,
- measures,
- monotone,
- nexus,
- order,
- overlayer,
- overstory,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- pigeonhole,
- plenum,
- powder train,
- progression,
- queue,
- range,
- rank,
- recurrence,
- reticulation,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- scale,
- seam,
- sequence,
- series,
- shelf,
- single file,
- spectrum,
- stage,
- step,
- story,
- stratum,
- string,
- substratum,
- succession,
- superstratum,
- swath,
- thickness,
- thread,
- topsoil,
- train,
- underlayer,
- understory,
- understratum,
- windrow,
- zone
- elated
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- exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
- full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart" related words >
- beaming,
- blissful,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bloated,
- bloated with pride,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- bursting with happiness,
- carried away,
- cheerful,
- cheery,
- chuffed,
- cock-a-hoop,
- crowing,
- delighted,
- delighting,
- ecstatic,
- elate,
- elevated,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- entranced,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- exultant,
- exulting,
- flushed,
- flushed with pride,
- freaked out,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- gleeful,
- gloating,
- glowing,
- happy,
- high,
- hopeful,
- imparadised,
- in ecstasies,
- in good spirits,
- in heaven,
- in high feather,
- in high spirits,
- in paradise,
- in raptures,
- in seventh heaven,
- irrepressible,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- jubilant,
- laughing,
- of good cheer,
- on cloud nine,
- optimistic,
- overjoyed,
- overjoyful,
- pleasant,
- pleased as Punch,
- possessed,
- puffed up,
- radiant,
- rapt,
- raptured,
- rapturous,
- ravished,
- rejoicing,
- rhapsodic,
- riant,
- rosy,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- sent,
- smiling,
- sparkling,
- sunny,
- swollen,
- thrilled,
- tickled,
- tickled pink,
- transported,
- triumphant,
- turned-on,
- uplifted,
- winsome
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- bag,
- ballocks,
- baloney,
- basket,
- beard,
- blague,
- bosh,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- breasts,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- cervix,
- claptrap,
- clitoris,
- cod,
- cods,
- crap,
- cullions,
- daring,
- dauntlessness,
- derring-do,
- enterprise,
- eyewash,
- family jewels,
- female organs,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- foolhardiness,
- gammon,
- genitalia,
- genitals,
- gonads,
- guts,
- heart,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jiggery-pokery,
- labia,
- labia majora,
- labia minora,
- lingam,
- lips,
- male organs,
- meat,
- mettle,
- moonshine,
- moxie,
- nuts,
- nymphae,
- ovary,
- overboldness,
- penis,
- phallus,
- pluck,
- private parts,
- privates,
- privy parts,
- pubic hair,
- pudenda,
- reproductive organs,
- resolution,
- rocks,
- scrotum,
- secondary sex characteristic,
- sex organs,
- spermary,
- spirit,
- testes,
- testicles,
- uterus,
- vagina,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness,
- vulva,
- womb,
- yoni
- recount
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- an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
- count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made" related words >
- account,
- accounts,
- add up,
- allegorize,
- battologize,
- body count,
- capitulation,
- cast up,
- census,
- cipher up,
- communicate,
- count,
- count up,
- describe,
- detail,
- election returns,
- enumerate,
- fable,
- fabulize,
- fictionalize,
- figure up,
- fill,
- foot up,
- give an encore,
- go over,
- go through,
- head count,
- impart,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iterate,
- landslide,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- narrate,
- nose count,
- novelize,
- official count,
- pad,
- particularize,
- poll,
- practice,
- reaffirm,
- reassert,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recapitulation,
- recite,
- reckon up,
- reckoning,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- repertory,
- report,
- reprint,
- restate,
- resume,
- retail,
- retell,
- returns,
- review,
- reword,
- romance,
- run over,
- say over,
- say over again,
- score up,
- specify,
- state,
- statement,
- storify,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summary,
- summate,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- tally up,
- tautologize,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- tidal wave,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- unfold,
- unfold a tale
- trill
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- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula; "he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill"
- pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's" related words >
- Bebung,
- anthem,
- babble,
- ballad,
- bubble,
- burble,
- cackle,
- call,
- carol,
- caw,
- chant,
- chatter,
- cheep,
- chirk,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- choir,
- chorus,
- chuck,
- clack,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- coo,
- croak,
- cronk,
- croon,
- crow,
- cuckoo,
- descant,
- distill,
- do-re-mi,
- dribble,
- drip,
- drop,
- drum,
- falter,
- flutter,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- gobble,
- guggle,
- gurgle,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- hum,
- hymn,
- intonate,
- intone,
- lap,
- leak,
- leak out,
- lilt,
- minstrel,
- peep,
- pip,
- pipe,
- plash,
- psalm,
- purl,
- quack,
- quaver,
- quiver,
- ripple,
- roll,
- roulade,
- scold,
- serenade,
- shake,
- sing,
- sing in chorus,
- slosh,
- sol-fa,
- solmizate,
- splash,
- squawk,
- swash,
- swish,
- tremble,
- tremolando,
- tremolant,
- tremolo,
- tremor,
- trickle,
- trillet,
- trilleto,
- trillo,
- troll,
- tweedle,
- tweedledee,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- vibrato,
- vocalize,
- warble,
- wash,
- weep,
- whistle,
- yodel
- tamp
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- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) related words >
- assault,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- boost,
- buck,
- bull,
- bulldoze,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bunt,
- butt,
- butt against,
- concentrate,
- cram,
- cram in,
- crowd,
- crowd in,
- dent,
- depress,
- dig,
- dimple,
- dint,
- drive,
- drive in,
- elbow,
- engrave,
- fill up,
- force,
- force in,
- goad,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- impact,
- impress,
- imprint,
- indent,
- jab,
- jam,
- jam in,
- jam-pack,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- knock in,
- notch,
- nudge,
- pack in,
- pang,
- pile drive,
- pit,
- plug up,
- plunge in,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- poke,
- poke in,
- pound in,
- press,
- press in,
- prod,
- punch,
- punch in,
- push,
- push in,
- ram,
- ram down,
- ram in,
- rattle,
- recess,
- run,
- run against,
- run in,
- set back,
- set in,
- shake,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- squeeze in,
- stamp,
- stress,
- stuff,
- stuff in,
- tamp in,
- thrust,
- thrust in,
- wedge in
- ADC,
- CO,
- OD,
- aide,
- aide-de-camp,
- brigadier,
- brigadier general,
- bull,
- captain,
- castellan,
- chatelain,
- chatelaine,
- chicken colonel,
- chief of staff,
- colonel,
- commander,
- commander in chief,
- commanding officer,
- commissioned officer,
- company officer,
- custodian,
- director,
- exec,
- executive,
- executive officer,
- field marshal,
- field officer,
- first lieutenant,
- five-star general,
- four-star general,
- gaoler,
- general,
- general officer,
- generalissimo,
- governor,
- guard,
- guardian,
- intendant,
- jailer,
- jemadar,
- junior officer,
- keeper,
- lieutenant,
- lieutenant colonel,
- lieutenant general,
- major,
- major general,
- manager,
- marechal,
- marshal,
- master,
- officer,
- one-star general,
- orderly officer,
- principal keeper,
- prison guard,
- risaldar,
- ruler,
- screw,
- senior officer,
- shavetail,
- sirdar,
- staff officer,
- subahdar,
- subaltern,
- sublieutenant,
- the Old Man,
- the brass,
- three-star general,
- top brass,
- turnkey,
- two-star general,
- warden,
- warder
- composer
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- someone who composes music as a profession related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- arranger,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- ballad maker,
- balladeer,
- balladist,
- balladmonger,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- contrapuntist,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- ethnomusicologist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- harmonist,
- harmonizer,
- humorist,
- hymnist,
- hymnographer,
- hymnologist,
- inditer,
- librettist,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- madrigalist,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- melodist,
- melodizer,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- musicographer,
- musicologist,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- orchestrator,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scorer,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- song writer,
- songsmith,
- storyteller,
- symphonist,
- technical writer,
- tone poet,
- tunesmith,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- notoriety
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- the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality related words >
- PR,
- acclaim,
- arrantness,
- ballyhoo,
- blatancy,
- blot,
- blurb,
- boldness,
- bright light,
- celebrity,
- character,
- common knowledge,
- conspicuousness,
- cry,
- currency,
- daylight,
- discredit,
- discreditableness,
- disgrace,
- disgracefulness,
- dishonor,
- dishonorableness,
- disreputability,
- disreputableness,
- disrepute,
- eclat,
- exposure,
- fame,
- famousness,
- figure,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- glare,
- glory,
- high relief,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- ignominy,
- infamy,
- kudos,
- limelight,
- maximum dissemination,
- name,
- noticeability,
- notoriousness,
- obloquy,
- obtrusiveness,
- opprobrium,
- ostentation,
- outstandingness,
- plug,
- popularity,
- press notice,
- prominence,
- promotion,
- pronouncedness,
- propaganda,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- renown,
- rep,
- report,
- reputation,
- repute,
- salience,
- saliency,
- scandal,
- shame,
- shamefulness,
- spotlight,
- stain,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- the bubble reputation,
- unrespectability,
- unsavoriness,
- vogue,
- write-up
- get up
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- get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
- cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M." related words >
- arise,
- assemble,
- awake,
- awaken,
- bedizen,
- bone up,
- brew,
- bristle,
- brush up,
- build,
- cast,
- cock up,
- come alive,
- compose,
- compound,
- concoct,
- construct,
- cram,
- cram up,
- create,
- deck out,
- decoct,
- devise,
- dizen,
- doll up,
- dress up,
- elaborate,
- erect,
- evolve,
- extrude,
- fabricate,
- fancy up,
- fashion,
- fig out,
- fix up,
- form,
- formulate,
- frame,
- fudge together,
- get up on,
- greet the day,
- gussy up,
- hit the deck,
- indite,
- jump up,
- make,
- make up,
- manufacture,
- mature,
- mix,
- mold,
- overdress,
- patch together,
- piece together,
- pile out,
- polish up,
- prank,
- prefabricate,
- prepare,
- pretty up,
- primp,
- prink,
- produce,
- put together,
- put up,
- rag out,
- raise,
- ramp,
- read up on,
- rear,
- rear up,
- rise,
- rise up,
- roll out,
- rouse,
- rub up,
- run up,
- set up,
- shape,
- sit bolt upright,
- sit up,
- slick up,
- spruce up,
- stand up,
- stick up,
- stir,
- study up,
- study up on,
- titivate,
- trick out,
- trick up,
- turn out,
- upheave,
- uprear,
- uprise,
- wake,
- wake up,
- whomp up,
- work up,
- write
- topic
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- some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" related words >
- action,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bone of contention,
- catastrophe,
- catechism,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- cross-interrogatory,
- cross-question,
- debating point,
- demand,
- denouement,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- episode,
- fable,
- falling action,
- feeler,
- gimmick,
- head,
- incident,
- inquiry,
- interrogation,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- issue,
- keynote,
- leader,
- leading question,
- line,
- local color,
- matter,
- mood,
- moot point,
- motif,
- motive,
- movement,
- mythos,
- peripeteia,
- plan,
- plot,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- problem,
- proposition,
- query,
- question,
- question at issue,
- question mark,
- quodlibet,
- recognition,
- rising action,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- slant,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subplot,
- switch,
- text,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thesis,
- tone,
- trial balloon,
- twist,
- vexed question
- attend to
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- get down to; pay attention to; take seriously; "Attend to your duties, please" related words >
- abide by,
- act up to,
- adhere to,
- advert to,
- attend,
- auscultate,
- baby-sit,
- be all ears,
- be aware of,
- be engrossed in,
- be faithful to,
- bend an ear,
- bug,
- care for,
- chaperon,
- cherish,
- cock the ears,
- come down on,
- comply with,
- conform to,
- conserve,
- do for,
- do justice to,
- drink in,
- eavesdrop,
- examine by ear,
- fill,
- fix,
- follow,
- foster,
- fulfill,
- give attention,
- give audience to,
- give ear,
- give heed to,
- give it to,
- give mind to,
- give thought to,
- hark,
- hear,
- hear out,
- hearken,
- heed,
- hold by,
- intercept,
- keep,
- keep faith with,
- keep watch over,
- lend an ear,
- listen,
- listen at,
- listen in,
- listen to,
- live up to,
- look after,
- look out for,
- look to,
- make good,
- matronize,
- meet,
- mind,
- minister to,
- mother,
- not forget,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- observe,
- pay,
- pay attention to,
- pay out,
- pay regard to,
- preserve,
- protege,
- provide for,
- regard,
- respect,
- ride herd on,
- satisfy,
- see after,
- see to,
- serve one out,
- settle,
- settle the score,
- shepherd,
- sit in on,
- support,
- take care of,
- take charge of,
- tap,
- tend,
- turn to,
- watch,
- watch out for,
- watch over,
- wiretap
- Tammany Hall
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- a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism related words >
- American Party,
- Anti-Monopoly Party,
- Bull Moose Party,
- Communist Party,
- Conservative Party,
- Constitutional Union Party,
- Democratic Party,
- Democratic-Republican Party,
- Farmer-Labor Party,
- Federalist Party,
- Free Soil Party,
- Greenback Party,
- Know-Nothing Party,
- Labour Party,
- Liberal Party,
- Liberal Republican Party,
- Liberty Party,
- Machtpolitik,
- National Republican Party,
- Populist Party,
- Progressive Party,
- Prohibition Party,
- Realpolitik,
- Republican Party,
- Socialist Labor Party,
- Socialist Party,
- Socialist Workers Party,
- Tory Party,
- Whig Party,
- bossism,
- camp,
- career politics,
- city hall,
- confrontation politics,
- consensus politics,
- economics in action,
- empirical politics,
- faction,
- kid-glove politics,
- machine,
- machine politics,
- major party,
- minor party,
- multiple party system,
- one-party system,
- opposition party,
- partisan politics,
- partisanism,
- party,
- party in power,
- peanut politics,
- petty politics,
- political machine,
- political party,
- politics,
- polity,
- pork-barrel politics,
- power politics,
- practical politics,
- pressure-group politics,
- reform politics,
- silk-stocking politics,
- splinter party,
- third party,
- two-party system,
- ward politics
- rescript
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- a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality related words >
- acknowledgment,
- amendment,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphon,
- appointment,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- billet,
- brevet,
- bull,
- business letter,
- chit,
- comeback,
- communication,
- correction,
- declaration,
- decree,
- decree-law,
- decreement,
- decretal,
- decretum,
- dictum,
- diktat,
- dispatch,
- echo,
- edict,
- edictum,
- editing,
- emendation,
- epistle,
- evasive reply,
- favor,
- fiat,
- ipse dixit,
- law,
- letter,
- line,
- message,
- missive,
- note,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- proclamation,
- pronouncement,
- pronunciamento,
- reaction,
- ready reply,
- receipt,
- recension,
- rectification,
- redaction,
- redraft,
- rejoinder,
- repartee,
- replication,
- reply,
- repost,
- rescription,
- respondence,
- response,
- responsion,
- responsory,
- retort,
- return,
- revampment,
- reverberation,
- review,
- revisal,
- revise,
- revised edition,
- revision,
- rewrite,
- rewriting,
- riposte,
- rule,
- ruling,
- senatus consult,
- senatus consultum,
- short answer,
- snappy comeback,
- ukase,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- yes-and-no answer
- about the bush,
- alternate,
- around the bush,
- avoid,
- back and fill,
- be untruthful,
- beat about,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- change,
- choplogic,
- deceive,
- dither,
- dodge,
- double-talk,
- draw the longbow,
- duck,
- elude,
- escape,
- eschew,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- exaggerate,
- falsify,
- fence,
- fib,
- fluctuate,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hum and haw,
- lie,
- lie flatly,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- mislead,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- oscillate,
- palter,
- parry,
- pendulate,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- quibble,
- recoil,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- skirt,
- speak falsely,
- split hairs,
- step aside,
- story,
- stretch the truth,
- swerve,
- teeter,
- tell a lie,
- tergiversate,
- totter,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- waffle,
- ward off,
- waver,
- weasel,
- wobble
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