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paraphrase collapse: rewording for the purpose of clarification; express the same message in different words

courteous collapse: characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; "if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world"-Francis Bacon; exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture"

proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

minister collapse: the job of a head of a government department; a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador; a person appointed to a high office in the government; "Minister of Finance"; work as a minister; "She is ministering in an old parish"; attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"

chancellor collapse: the honorary or titular head of a university; the person who is head of state (in several countries)

casebook collapse: a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work; according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"

longhand collapse: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper; having words written out in full by hand; "longhand writing"

cagey collapse: characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"; showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

cursive collapse: having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"

ministerial collapse: of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"; of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties"

exemption collapse: an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution"; a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.); "additional exemptions are allowed for each dependent"; immunity from an obligation or duty

prose collapse: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse; matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

politeness collapse: the act of showing regard for others; a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage

playbook collapse: a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"; a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"; a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)

good form collapse: behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time; "it is not good form to brag about winning"

allocution collapse: (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

glossary collapse: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

workmanlike collapse: worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index"

transcription collapse: a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording); something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation; (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA

oration collapse: an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"

politic collapse: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound; marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

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