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evasive action
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shunning
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related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
jink
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
prevention
,
refraining
,
runaround
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
zigzag
reverberation
collapse
related words >
acknowledgment
,
action and reaction
,
answer
,
answering
,
antiphon
,
automatic reaction
,
autonomic reaction
,
back answer
,
back talk
,
backchat
,
boom
,
booming
,
bounceback
,
comeback
,
echo
,
evasive reply
,
growl
,
growling
,
grumble
,
grumbling
,
predictable response
,
reaction
,
ready reply
,
reboation
,
rebound
,
receipt
,
reecho
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
reflex action
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
rejoinder
,
repartee
,
replication
,
reply
,
repost
,
rescript
,
rescription
,
resound
,
resounding
,
respondence
,
response
,
responsion
,
responsory
,
retort
,
retroaction
,
return
,
revulsion
,
riposte
,
rise
,
rumble
,
rumbling
,
short answer
,
snappy comeback
,
thunder
,
thundering
,
unthinking response
,
witty reply
,
witty retort
,
yes-and-no answer
elusion
collapse
related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
buck-passing
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
foiling
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
getting round
,
jink
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
outguessing
,
outmaneuvering
,
outwitting
,
passing the buck
,
prevention
,
refraining
,
runaround
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
the slip
,
thwarting
,
zigzag
runaround
collapse
related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
buck-passing
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
foiling
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
getting round
,
jink
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
outguessing
,
outmaneuvering
,
outwitting
,
passing the buck
,
prevention
,
refraining
,
roundabout
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
the slip
,
thwarting
,
zigzag
cybernation
collapse
related words >
action
,
automatic control
,
automation
,
automatism
,
automatization
,
cascade control
,
control action
,
electronic control
,
feedback control
,
robot control
,
self-action
,
self-activity
,
self-determination
,
self-direction
,
self-government
,
self-motion
,
self-propulsion
,
self-regulation
,
servo control
,
supervisory control
refraining
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related words >
Encratism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
asceticism
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
banyan day
,
celibacy
,
chastity
,
circumvention
,
continence
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
eschewal
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fast
,
fish day
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
fruitarianism
,
getting around
,
gymnosophy
,
jink
,
nephalism
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
plain living
,
prevention
,
refrainment
,
sexual abstinence
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
simple diet
,
slip
,
spare diet
,
teetotalism
,
the pledge
,
the runaround
,
total abstinence
,
vegetarianism
,
zigzag
local color
collapse
related words >
action
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
atmosphere
,
background
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
color
,
complication
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
development
,
device
,
episode
,
fable
,
falling action
,
gimmick
,
incident
,
line
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mythos
,
peripeteia
,
plan
,
plot
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
scheme
,
secondary plot
,
slant
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
switch
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
tone
,
topic
,
twist
subplot
collapse
related words >
action
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
atmosphere
,
background
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
color
,
complication
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
development
,
device
,
episode
,
fable
,
falling action
,
gimmick
,
incident
,
line
,
local color
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mythos
,
peripeteia
,
plan
,
plot
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
scheme
,
secondary plot
,
slant
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
switch
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
tone
,
topic
,
twist
equivocation
collapse
falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
intentionally vague or ambiguous
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
amphibology
,
antinomy
,
apparent soundness
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bickering
,
boggling
,
captiousness
,
casuistry
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
circularity
,
circumvention
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
counterword
,
defense mechanism
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
dodge
,
dodging
,
double
,
double entendre
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocalness
,
equivoque
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasive reasoning
,
evasiveness
,
exaggeration
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
fencing
,
fluctuation
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
insincerity
,
irony
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
jink
,
logic-chopping
,
lying
,
misapplication
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
mystification
,
neutrality
,
nit-picking
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
oscillation
,
oversubtlety
,
oxymoron
,
paltering
,
paradox
,
parrying
,
pendulation
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pettifoggery
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
prevarication
,
prevention
,
pun
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
rationalization
,
refraining
,
self-contradiction
,
shifting
,
shilly-shally
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
squinting construction
,
straining
,
subterfuge
,
subtlety
,
suppressio veri
,
tergiversation
,
the runaround
,
trichoschistism
,
vacillation
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
wavering
,
weasel word
,
weasel words
,
wobbling
,
zigzag
nonintervention
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a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes
related words >
autarky
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bimetallism
,
capitalism
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
economic self-sufficiency
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
free competition
,
free enterprise
,
free trade
,
getting around
,
governmentalism
,
isolationism
,
jink
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
let-alone policy
,
let-alone principle
,
liberalism
,
line
,
localism
,
managed currency
,
neutrality
,
noninterference
,
noninvolvement
,
nullification
,
party line
,
party principle
,
planned economy
,
policy
,
polity
,
position
,
prevention
,
price supports
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
public policy
,
pump-priming
,
refraining
,
sectionalism
,
self-regulating market
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
zigzag
forestalling
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
arrestation
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
circumvention
,
confident
,
debarment
,
defense mechanism
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
deterrent
,
deterring
,
discouragement
,
discouraging
,
dodge
,
duck
,
eager
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
estoppel
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forbearance
,
forbiddance
,
forbidding
,
forearmed
,
foreclosure
,
forestallment
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
getting around
,
halt
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
jink
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
not surprised
,
obviation
,
optimistic
,
preclusion
,
preclusive
,
prepared
,
preventative
,
prevention
,
preventive
,
prohibition
,
prohibitive
,
prophylactic
,
ready
,
refraining
,
sanguine
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping
,
sure
,
the runaround
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
zigzag
circumvention
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the act of evading by going around
related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
buck-passing
,
calculated deception
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defense mechanism
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dodge
,
duck
,
dupery
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
foiling
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
getting round
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
illusion
,
jink
,
kidding
,
mirage
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
outguessing
,
outmaneuvering
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
passing the buck
,
phantasm
,
prevention
,
putting on
,
refraining
,
self-deception
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
the runaround
,
the slip
,
thwarting
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
zigzag
elusive
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skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
related words >
baffling
,
cagey
,
elusory
,
evanescent
,
evasive
,
fleeting
,
fugitive
,
impalpable
,
imponderable
,
incomprehensible
,
indefinable
,
insubstantial
,
intangible
,
malingering
,
mysterious
,
phantom
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
slippery
,
transitory
,
tricky
noninvolvement
collapse
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abstention
,
anythingarianism
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
circumvention
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
cop-out
,
defense mechanism
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dodge
,
dormancy
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fence-sitting
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
independence
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
jink
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
meditation
,
mugwumpery
,
mugwumpism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
nonalignment
,
noncommitment
,
nonintervention
,
nonparticipation
,
nonpartisanism
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothingarianism
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
prevention
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
refraining
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
strict neutrality
,
the runaround
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
,
zigzag
judicial process
collapse
related words >
action
,
case
,
cause
,
cause in court
,
judgment
,
judicatory
,
judicature
,
judiciary
,
justice
,
lawsuit
,
legal action
,
legal case
,
legal proceedings
,
legal process
,
legal remedy
,
litigation
,
proceedings
,
prosecution
,
suit
,
suit at law
,
the courts
malingering
collapse
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
related words >
cagey
,
clock-watching
,
dodging
,
ducking
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
evasive
,
goofing off
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
skulking
,
slacking
,
slippery
,
soldiering
,
tax dodging
,
tax evasion
,
truancy
,
welshing
defense mechanism
collapse
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
related words >
alienation
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance
,
avoidance mechanism
,
avoidance reaction
,
avoiding reaction
,
blame-shifting
,
block
,
blocking
,
circumvention
,
compensation
,
conversion
,
decompensation
,
defence
,
defense
,
defense in depth
,
defenses
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
deterrent capacity
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
dodge
,
duck
,
ego defenses
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
emotional insulation
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
flight
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
guard
,
isolation
,
jink
,
mental block
,
negative taxis
,
negativism
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
overcompensation
,
prevention
,
projection
,
protection
,
psychological defenses
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
refraining
,
repression
,
resistance
,
self-defense
,
self-preservation
,
self-protection
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
suppression
,
symbolization
,
the defensive
,
the runaround
,
ward
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
,
zigzag
simultaneity
collapse
happening or existing or done at the same time
related words >
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
association
,
cahoots
,
co-occurrence
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
collectivity
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combined effort
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concomitancy
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conjunction
,
consilience
,
conspiracy
,
cooperation
,
correspondence
,
immediacy
,
immediateness
,
instantaneity
,
instantaneousness
,
junction
,
momentaneousness
,
momentariness
,
parallelism
,
parasitism
,
saprophytism
,
symbiosis
,
synchronism
,
synergy
,
togetherness
,
union
,
united action
,
withness
incident
collapse
a single distinct event
a public disturbance; "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
falling or striking of light rays on something; "incident light"
related words >
action
,
adventure
,
affair
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
atmosphere
,
background
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
circumstance
,
color
,
commotion
,
complication
,
condition
,
conjuncture
,
contingency
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
development
,
device
,
disturbance
,
do
,
episode
,
event
,
eventuality
,
experience
,
fable
,
fact
,
falling action
,
fracas
,
gimmick
,
hap
,
happening
,
happenstance
,
juncture
,
line
,
local color
,
matter of fact
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mythos
,
occasion
,
occurrence
,
particular
,
peripeteia
,
phenomenon
,
plan
,
plot
,
proceeding
,
reality
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
scene
,
scheme
,
secondary plot
,
set-to
,
skirmish
,
slant
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
switch
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
to-do
,
tone
,
topic
,
turn of events
,
twist
,
upset
reflex action
collapse
related words >
action and reaction
,
answer
,
automatic reaction
,
automatic writing
,
automatism
,
autonomic reaction
,
blind impulse
,
bounceback
,
compulsiveness
,
conditioning
,
echo
,
echolalia
,
echopraxia
,
impulse
,
instinct
,
instinctiveness
,
involuntariness
,
predictable response
,
reaction
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
reply
,
respondence
,
response
,
retroaction
,
return
,
reverberation
,
revulsion
,
rise
,
sheer chemistry
,
unthinking response
,
unwilledness
retroaction
collapse
related words >
action and reaction
,
answer
,
automatic reaction
,
autonomic reaction
,
backset
,
backsliding
,
backward motion
,
backward step
,
bounceback
,
echo
,
lapse
,
predictable response
,
reaction
,
recession
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
reentry
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
reflex action
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
regress
,
regression
,
relapse
,
reply
,
respondence
,
response
,
retrocession
,
retroflexion
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
retrusion
,
return
,
reverberation
,
revulsion
,
rise
,
rollback
,
setback
,
sternway
,
throwback
,
unthinking response
logic chopping
collapse
related words >
bickering
,
boggling
,
captious
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
choplogic
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
equivocatory
,
evasion
,
evasive
,
fencing
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
pettifoggery
,
petty
,
picayune
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
subterfuge
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistic
,
trichoschistism
,
trifling
,
trivial
countermove
collapse
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
answer
,
artifice
,
contrivance
,
coup
,
course of action
,
demarche
,
device
,
dodge
,
effort
,
expedient
,
gimmick
,
improvisation
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
move
,
pis aller
,
resort
,
resource
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
solution
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trump
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
course of action
collapse
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
answer
,
artifice
,
contrivance
,
countermove
,
coup
,
demarche
,
device
,
dodge
,
effort
,
expedient
,
gimmick
,
improvisation
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
move
,
pis aller
,
resort
,
resource
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
solution
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trump
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
secretive
collapse
related words >
close
,
closemouthed
,
dark
,
discreet
,
disinclined to communicate
,
evasive
,
excretory
,
lachrymal
,
lachrymose
,
lacrimatory
,
lactational
,
lacteal
,
lacteous
,
meaningless
,
mum
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
rheumy
,
salivant
,
salivary
,
salivous
,
secret
,
secretional
,
secretory
,
seminal
,
serous
,
shifty
,
sialagogic
,
silent
,
spermatic
,
taciturn
,
tight-lipped
,
uncommunicative
,
unconversable
,
unsociable
,
watering
,
watery
last resort
collapse
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
answer
,
artifice
,
contrivance
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
demarche
,
dernier ressort
,
device
,
dodge
,
effort
,
expedient
,
gimmick
,
hope
,
improvisation
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
last expedient
,
last shift
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
means
,
measure
,
move
,
pis aller
,
recourse
,
resort
,
resource
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
solution
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
tactic
,
temporary expedient
,
trick
,
trump
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
topic
collapse
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
synergy
collapse
the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects
related words >
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
association
,
bipartisanship
,
cahoots
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coadjuvancy
,
coadministration
,
coagency
,
cochairmanship
,
codirectorship
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
collaborativeness
,
collectivism
,
collectivity
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combined effort
,
commensalism
,
common effort
,
common enterprise
,
communalism
,
communism
,
communitarianism
,
community
,
complicity
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concord
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conjunction
,
consilience
,
conspiracy
,
cooperation
,
cooperativeness
,
correspondence
,
duet
,
duumvirate
,
ecumenicalism
,
ecumenicism
,
ecumenism
,
esprit
,
esprit de corps
,
fellow feeling
,
fellowship
,
harmony
,
joining of forces
,
joint effort
,
joint operation
,
junction
,
mass action
,
morale
,
mutual assistance
,
mutualism
,
mutuality
,
octet
,
parasitism
,
pooling
,
pooling of resources
,
pulling together
,
quartet
,
quintet
,
reciprocity
,
saprophytism
,
septet
,
sextet
,
simultaneity
,
solidarity
,
symbiosis
,
synchronism
,
synergism
,
team spirit
,
teamwork
,
trio
,
triumvirate
,
troika
,
union
,
united action
joint operation
collapse
related words >
action
,
amphibious operations
,
bipartisanship
,
coaction
,
coadjuvancy
,
coadministration
,
coagency
,
cochairmanship
,
codirectorship
,
collaboration
,
collaborativeness
,
collectivism
,
collusion
,
combined operations
,
commensalism
,
common effort
,
common enterprise
,
communalism
,
communism
,
communitarianism
,
community
,
complicity
,
concert
,
concord
,
concordance
,
concurrence
,
cooperation
,
cooperativeness
,
dry run
,
duet
,
duumvirate
,
ecumenicalism
,
ecumenicism
,
ecumenism
,
esprit
,
esprit de corps
,
fellow feeling
,
fellowship
,
fluid operations
,
harmony
,
joining of forces
,
joint effort
,
logistics
,
maneuver
,
maneuvers
,
mass action
,
military operations
,
minor operations
,
mission
,
morale
,
movement
,
mutual assistance
,
mutualism
,
mutuality
,
octet
,
operation
,
operations
,
overseas operations
,
pooling
,
pooling of resources
,
pulling together
,
quartet
,
quintet
,
reciprocity
,
septet
,
sextet
,
solidarity
,
staff work
,
symbiosis
,
synergism
,
synergy
,
team spirit
,
teamwork
,
trio
,
triumvirate
,
troika
,
united action
,
war game
,
war plans
reply
collapse
the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply"
related words >
ESP
,
acknowledge
,
acknowledgment
,
action and reaction
,
advocate
,
allege in support
,
answer
,
answer back
,
answering
,
antiphon
,
approach
,
argue for
,
argument
,
assert
,
automatic reaction
,
autonomic reaction
,
back answer
,
back talk
,
backchat
,
billet
,
boomerang
,
bounceback
,
business letter
,
champion
,
chit
,
come back
,
come back at
,
come in
,
comeback
,
commerce
,
communicate with
,
communication
,
communion
,
congress
,
connection
,
contact
,
contend for
,
conversation
,
converse
,
correspond
,
correspondence
,
counter
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterstatement
,
counterstroke
,
dealing
,
dealings
,
defend
,
defense
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
dispatch
,
echo
,
epistle
,
espouse
,
establish connection
,
evasive reply
,
exception
,
exchange
,
favor
,
flash back
,
get to
,
give acknowledgment
,
give answer
,
give-and-take
,
information
,
interaction
,
interchange
,
intercommunication
,
intercommunion
,
intercourse
,
interplay
,
interrogate
,
letter
,
line
,
linguistic intercourse
,
maintain
,
maintain connection
,
make a plea
,
make advances
,
make contact with
,
make overtures
,
make up to
,
message
,
missive
,
note
,
objection
,
plea
,
plead for
,
pleading
,
predictable response
,
question
,
raise
,
reach
,
react
,
reaction
,
ready reply
,
rebut
,
rebuttal
,
receipt
,
reciprocation
,
recoil
,
reecho
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
reflex action
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
refutation
,
refute
,
rejoin
,
rejoinder
,
relate to
,
repartee
,
replication
,
reply to
,
repost
,
rescript
,
rescription
,
respond
,
respond to
,
respondence
,
response
,
responsion
,
responsory
,
retaliation
,
retort
,
retroaction
,
return
,
return answer
,
return for answer
,
reverberate
,
reverberation
,
revulsion
,
riposte
,
rise
,
say
,
say in defense
,
say in reply
,
shoot back
,
short answer
,
snap back
,
snappy comeback
,
social intercourse
,
speak for
,
speak up for
,
speaking
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
speech
,
speech circuit
,
speech situation
,
stand up for
,
statement of defense
,
stick up for
,
support
,
sustain
,
take the bait
,
talk back
,
talking
,
telepathy
,
touch
,
traffic
,
truck
,
two-way communication
,
unthinking response
,
uphold
,
urge reasons for
,
witty reply
,
witty retort
,
yes-and-no answer
mythos
collapse
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
action
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
apologue
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
atmosphere
,
background
,
bedtime story
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
color
,
complication
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
detective story
,
development
,
device
,
episode
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fairy tale
,
falling action
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
folk story
,
folklore
,
folktale
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
gimmick
,
horse opera
,
incident
,
legend
,
line
,
local color
,
love story
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
nursery tale
,
parable
,
peripeteia
,
plan
,
plot
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
romance
,
scheme
,
science fiction
,
secondary plot
,
shocker
,
slant
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
suspense story
,
switch
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
thriller
,
tone
,
topic
,
tradition
,
twist
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
captious
collapse
tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
related words >
bickering
,
carping
,
caviling
,
censorious
,
choplogic
,
contrary
,
critic
,
critical
,
cynical
,
demanding
,
equivocatory
,
evasive
,
exacting
,
faultfinding
,
finicky
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
hypercritical
,
irritable
,
logic-chopping
,
nagging
,
niggling
,
nit-picking
,
overcritical
,
paltering
,
particular
,
peevish
,
pernickety
,
perverse
,
pettifogging
,
petty
,
petulant
,
picayune
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shuffling
,
snappish
,
snappy
,
testy
,
trichoschistic
,
trifling
,
trivial
,
ultracritical
unethical
collapse
not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior; "unethical business practices"
related words >
amoral
,
conscienceless
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
criminal
,
crooked
,
dark
,
devious
,
dishonest
,
dishonorable
,
doubtful
,
dubious
,
evasive
,
felonious
,
fishy
,
fraudulent
,
ill-got
,
ill-gotten
,
immoral
,
indirect
,
insidious
,
mercenary
,
not kosher
,
questionable
,
rotten
,
shady
,
shameless
,
shifty
,
sinister
,
slippery
,
suspicious
,
tricky
,
unconscienced
,
unconscientious
,
unconscionable
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unprincipled
,
unsavory
,
unscrupulous
,
unstraightforward
,
venal
,
without remorse
,
without shame
prevention
collapse
the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
related words >
Eighteenth Amendment
,
Prohibition Party
,
Volstead Act
,
abortion
,
anticipation
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
arresting
,
avoidance
,
avoiding
,
avoiding reaction
,
balk
,
balking
,
ban
,
banning
,
bar
,
barring
,
block
,
blocking
,
check
,
checking
,
circumvention
,
contraband
,
control
,
controlling
,
curb
,
curbing
,
debarment
,
debarring
,
defense mechanism
,
delay
,
delaying
,
denial
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
disallowance
,
discouragement
,
dodge
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
embargo
,
enjoining
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
estoppel
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
exclusion
,
foiling
,
forbearance
,
forbiddance
,
forbidden fruit
,
forbidding
,
foreclosure
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustrating
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
halt
,
halting
,
hampering
,
hindering
,
hindrance
,
impedance
,
impeding
,
index
,
index expurgatorius
,
index librorum prohibitorum
,
inhibiting
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
intercepting
,
interception
,
interdict
,
interdicting
,
interdiction
,
interdictum
,
jink
,
law
,
mitigating
,
mitigation
,
neutrality
,
no-no
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
obstructing
,
obstruction
,
obviation
,
preclusion
,
prohibiting
,
prohibition
,
prohibitory injunction
,
proscribing
,
proscription
,
refraining
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
repression
,
restraining
,
restraint
,
restrictive covenants
,
retardation
,
ruling out
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
slowing
,
statute
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping
,
sumptuary laws
,
suppression
,
taboo
,
the runaround
,
thwarting
,
zigzag
,
zoning
,
zoning laws
fable
collapse
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
action
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
apologue
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
atmosphere
,
background
,
bedtime story
,
canard
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
color
,
complication
,
concoction
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
detective story
,
development
,
device
,
episode
,
extravaganza
,
fabliau
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
falling action
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figment
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
forgery
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
gimmick
,
horse opera
,
incident
,
invention
,
legend
,
line
,
local color
,
love story
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
nursery tale
,
parable
,
peripeteia
,
plan
,
plot
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
romance
,
scheme
,
science fiction
,
secondary plot
,
shocker
,
slant
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
suspense story
,
switch
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
thriller
,
tone
,
topic
,
twist
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
parasitism
collapse
the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
related words >
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
association
,
backscratching
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cahoots
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
collectivity
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combined effort
,
commensality
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conjunction
,
consilience
,
conspiracy
,
cooperation
,
correspondence
,
cringing
,
ecology
,
ecosystem
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
junction
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
prostration
,
saprophytism
,
simultaneity
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
symbiosis
,
symbiotics
,
synchronism
,
synergy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
union
,
united action
closemouthed
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-lipped
,
close-tongued
,
concise
,
curt
,
dark
,
discreet
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
evasive
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
secret
,
secretive
,
shifty
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
uncommunicative
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
forbearance
collapse
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
related words >
abandonment
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
acceptance
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
benevolence
,
cessation
,
charitableness
,
charity
,
circumvention
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
cold storage
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
condonation
,
constraint
,
defense mechanism
,
denial
,
desistance
,
discontinuance
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
duck
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
endurance
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
favor
,
feeling
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
forgiveness
,
forgivingness
,
fortitude
,
frugality
,
generousness
,
gentleness
,
getting around
,
golden mean
,
grace
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
indulgence
,
jink
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
magnanimity
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
neutrality
,
nonexercise
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
nothing in excess
,
overlooking
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
permissiveness
,
perseverance
,
pity
,
prevention
,
quarter
,
refraining
,
relief
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
reprieve
,
resignation
,
restraint
,
ruth
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-pity
,
self-restraint
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
softness
,
sophrosyne
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
suspension
,
sweet reasonableness
,
sympathy
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tenderness
,
the runaround
,
thoughtful
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
uncomplainingness
,
unrevengefulness
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
waiver
,
zigzag
atmosphere
collapse
the mass of air surrounding the Earth; "there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere"; "it was exposed to the air"
the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
the weather or climate at some place; "the atmosphere was thick with fog"
a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
related words >
action
,
aerial
,
aerodynamics
,
aerosphere
,
air
,
ambience
,
ambient
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
arrangement
,
atmospheric
,
aura
,
background
,
balance
,
biosphere
,
brushwork
,
catastrophe
,
character
,
characteristic
,
characterization
,
climate
,
color
,
complication
,
composition
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
development
,
device
,
draftsmanship
,
ecosphere
,
episode
,
fable
,
falling action
,
feel
,
feeling
,
flavor
,
fluid
,
gas
,
gaseous envelope
,
gimmick
,
grouping
,
halogen gas
,
impression
,
incident
,
individuality
,
inert gas
,
lift
,
line
,
local color
,
medium
,
milieu
,
mise-en-scene
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mythos
,
noosphere
,
note
,
overtone
,
painterliness
,
peculiarity
,
peripeteia
,
perspective
,
plan
,
plot
,
pneumatic
,
pneumatics
,
property
,
quality
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
scheme
,
secondary plot
,
semblance
,
sense
,
shading
,
shadow
,
slant
,
spirit
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
suggestion
,
surroundings
,
switch
,
technique
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
tone
,
topic
,
treatment
,
twist
,
undertone
,
values
,
welkin
cahoots
collapse
related words >
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
affiliation
,
agreement
,
alignment
,
alliance
,
amalgamation
,
association
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coadunation
,
coalescence
,
coalition
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
colleagueship
,
collectivity
,
collegialism
,
collegiality
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combined effort
,
comradeship
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confederacy
,
confederation
,
confluence
,
confraternity
,
conjunction
,
consilience
,
consolidation
,
conspiracy
,
cooperation
,
copartnership
,
copartnery
,
correspondence
,
federation
,
fellowship
,
fraternalism
,
fraternity
,
fraternization
,
freemasonry
,
fusion
,
hookup
,
inclusion
,
incorporation
,
integration
,
junction
,
league
,
merger
,
parasitism
,
partnership
,
saprophytism
,
simultaneity
,
sodality
,
sorority
,
symbiosis
,
synchronism
,
synergy
,
tie-in
,
tie-up
,
unification
,
union
,
united action
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