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related words >
accost
,
address
,
apostrophize
,
appeal to
,
approach
,
bespeak
,
buttonhole
,
call down
,
call to
,
come down on
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
invoke
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
salute
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
speak to
,
take aside
,
tell off
,
trim
speak to
collapse
related words >
accost
,
address
,
apostrophize
,
appeal to
,
approach
,
bespeak
,
buttonhole
,
call down
,
call to
,
come down on
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
invoke
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
salute
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
take aside
,
talk to
,
tell off
,
trim
blandishment
collapse
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
bring round
collapse
cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"
related words >
about ship
,
argue into
,
assure
,
back and fill
,
be convincing
,
bear away
,
bear off
,
bear to starboard
,
beat
,
beat about
,
box off
,
break
,
bring about
,
bring around
,
bring home to
,
bring over
,
bring to reason
,
cant
,
cant round
,
captivate
,
carry conviction
,
cast
,
cast about
,
change course
,
change the heading
,
charm
,
come about
,
con
,
convert
,
convict
,
convince
,
cure
,
double a point
,
draw over
,
drive home to
,
fetch about
,
gain
,
gain over
,
go about
,
gybe
,
heal
,
heave round
,
hook
,
hook in
,
inspire belief
,
jibe
,
jibe all standing
,
lead to believe
,
miss stays
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
ply
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
pull round
,
put about
,
put back
,
recure
,
remedy
,
restore to health
,
round a point
,
satisfy
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
sheer
,
shift
,
slew
,
sway
,
swerve
,
swing round
,
swing the stern
,
tack
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
throw about
,
turn
,
turn back
,
veer
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
wear
,
wear down
,
wear ship
,
win
,
win over
,
wind
,
work a cure
,
yaw
Babylonian
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the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture; "Babylonian religion"
related words >
Corinthian
,
awe-inspiring
,
awful
,
barbaric
,
deluxe
,
elaborate
,
elegant
,
extravagant
,
fancy
,
fine
,
glorious
,
grand
,
grandiose
,
imposing
,
impressive
,
luxurious
,
magnificent
,
majestic
,
noble
,
palatial
,
plush
,
posh
,
princely
,
proud
,
ritzy
,
splendacious
,
splendid
,
splendiferous
,
stately
,
sumptuous
,
superb
,
superfancy
,
superfine
,
swank
,
swanky
,
swell
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
drool
collapse
saliva spilling from the mouth
related words >
absurdity
,
amphigory
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
baloney
,
be insane
,
be stupid
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blither
,
bombast
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
burble
,
bushwa
,
claptrap
,
dither
,
dote
,
double-talk
,
dribble
,
drivel
,
expectorate
,
expectoration
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flummery
,
foam
,
folderol
,
froth
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
guff
,
have a demon
,
hawk
,
hocus-pocus
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jazz
,
maunder
,
mouth-watering
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
piffle
,
prate
,
prattle
,
ptyalism
,
rage
,
ramble
,
rant
,
rattle
,
rave
,
rhapsodize
,
rhapsody
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
saliva
,
salivate
,
salivation
,
sialagogue
,
skimble-skamble
,
slabber
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
spew
,
spit
,
spittle
,
sputum
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
talk nonsense
,
trash
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
vapor
,
vaporing
,
waffle
,
waffling
,
wander
,
water
overreach
collapse
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
related words >
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
ballyhoo
,
bamboozle
,
beat
,
beguile
,
betray
,
bilk
,
bluff
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
cajole
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
cheat on
,
chouse
,
circumvent
,
conjure
,
cozen
,
deceive
,
defraud
,
delude
,
diddle
,
do
,
double-cross
,
draw the longbow
,
dupe
,
elude
,
evade
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
flimflam
,
foil
,
forestall
,
frustrate
,
gammon
,
get around
,
get round
,
give the runaround
,
give the slip
,
go beyond
,
go one better
,
go to extremes
,
gull
,
gyp
,
have
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
hornswaggle
,
humbug
,
hyperbolize
,
juggle
,
lay it on
,
let down
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
mock
,
outfigure
,
outflank
,
outfox
,
outgeneral
,
outguess
,
outmaneuver
,
outplay
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outwit
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overpraise
,
overreact
,
overrun
,
oversell
,
overshoot
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstep
,
overstress
,
overstride
,
pass
,
pass the buck
,
pigeon
,
pile it on
,
play one false
,
puff
,
put something over
,
snow
,
stonewall
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
string along
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
take in
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tout
,
transcend
,
travesty
,
trick
,
two-time
,
undo
,
victimize
dote
collapse
shower with love; show excessive affection for; "Grandmother dotes on her the twins"
be foolish or senile due to old age
related words >
adore
,
babble
,
be fond of
,
be insane
,
be stupid
,
blather
,
blither
,
burble
,
coddle
,
dither
,
drivel
,
drool
,
enjoy
,
fancy
,
have a demon
,
hold dear
,
idolize
,
indulge
,
like
,
love
,
make much of
,
maunder
,
pamper
,
rage
,
ramble
,
rant
,
rave
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
spoil
,
wander
,
worship
inflationary
collapse
associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation; "inflationary prices"
related words >
cutthroat
,
dilatant
,
distensive
,
elastic
,
exacting
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
expansible
,
expansile
,
expansional
,
expansive
,
extensile
,
extensional
,
extensive
,
extortionate
,
extravagant
,
fancy
,
gouging
,
grossly overpriced
,
immoderate
,
inflatable
,
inordinate
,
out of bounds
,
out of sight
,
outrageous
,
overpriced
,
preposterous
,
prohibitive
,
skyrocketing
,
spiraling
,
unconscionable
,
undue
,
unreasonable
,
unwarranted
,
usurious
overworked
collapse
related words >
arabesque
,
baroque
,
busy
,
chichi
,
commonplace
,
elaborate
,
elegant
,
fancy
,
fine
,
flamboyant
,
florid
,
flowery
,
frilly
,
fussy
,
hackneyed
,
high-wrought
,
labored
,
luxuriant
,
luxurious
,
moresque
,
ornate
,
ostentatious
,
overelaborate
,
overelegant
,
overlabored
,
overwrought
,
picturesque
,
platitudinous
,
pretty-pretty
,
rich
,
rococo
,
stereotyped
,
trite
,
truistic
aggrandize
collapse
related words >
add to
,
advance
,
amplify
,
apotheose
,
apotheosize
,
augment
,
ballyhoo
,
beatify
,
beef up
,
bloat
,
blow up
,
boost
,
broaden
,
build
,
build up
,
bulk
,
bulk out
,
burlesque
,
canonize
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
crescendo
,
crown
,
deify
,
develop
,
dignify
,
dilate
,
distend
,
distinguish
,
draw the longbow
,
elevate
,
enlarge
,
ennoble
,
enshrine
,
enthrone
,
erect
,
exaggerate
,
exalt
,
expand
,
extend
,
fatten
,
fill out
,
glamorize
,
glorify
,
go to extremes
,
graduate
,
heighten
,
hike
,
hike up
,
honor
,
huff
,
hyperbolize
,
immortalize
,
increase
,
inflate
,
jack up
,
jump up
,
kick upstairs
,
knight
,
lay it on
,
lengthen
,
lionize
,
magnify
,
make legendary
,
make much of
,
maximize
,
multiply
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstress
,
parlay
,
pass
,
pile it on
,
prefer
,
promote
,
puff
,
puff up
,
pump
,
pump up
,
put up
,
pyramid
,
raise
,
rarefy
,
saint
,
sanctify
,
set up
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
sublime
,
sufflate
,
swell
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
thicken
,
throne
,
tout
,
travesty
,
up
,
upgrade
,
uplift
,
uprear
,
widen
pancake
collapse
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
related words >
alight
,
blintz
,
buckwheat cake
,
cheese blintz
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
crepe
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
flapcake
,
flapjack
,
griddlecake
,
hot cake
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
overshoot
,
palacsinta
,
settle down
,
talk down
,
touch down
,
upwind
,
waffle
enhancement
collapse
an improvement that makes something more agreeable
related words >
Great Leap Forward
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
advance
,
advancement
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amelioration
,
amendment
,
amplification
,
annoyance
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballyhoo
,
beefing-up
,
bettering
,
betterment
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boost
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
complement
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
consolidation
,
contentiousness
,
deepening
,
deliberate aggravation
,
deterioration
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
embittering
,
embitterment
,
enlargement
,
enrichment
,
eugenics
,
euthenics
,
exacerbation
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
exasperation
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
explosion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
furtherance
,
grandiloquence
,
headway
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
improvement
,
increase
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
inordinacy
,
intensification
,
irritation
,
lift
,
magnification
,
melioration
,
mend
,
mending
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
pickup
,
population explosion
,
preferment
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
progress
,
progression
,
promotion
,
provocation
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
recovery
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
restoration
,
revival
,
rise
,
sensationalism
,
sharpening
,
souring
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
tightening
,
touting
,
travesty
,
upbeat
,
uplift
,
upping
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upward mobility
,
worsening
have a mind to
collapse
related words >
aim at
,
be desirous of
,
choose
,
choose to
,
command
,
contemplate
,
decide
,
decree
,
desiderate
,
desire
,
determine
,
envisage
,
envision
,
fancy
,
favor
,
have designs on
,
have in mind
,
have in view
,
like
,
love
,
lust
,
lust after
,
meditate
,
prefer
,
resolve
,
see fit
,
take to
,
think fit
,
think good
,
think proper
,
want
,
will
,
wish
,
wish to goodness
,
wish very much
,
would fain do
pomposity
collapse
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
bedizenment
,
belief
,
big talk
,
buckram
,
ceremonial
,
ceremoniousness
,
ceremony
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
convolution
,
courage
,
dignity
,
extrinsicality
,
faith
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
form
,
formality
,
formalization
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
gravity
,
high-flown diction
,
hubris
,
impersonality
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
poise
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomp
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
positiveness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pride
,
primness
,
prose run mad
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rigidness
,
ritual
,
rituality
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
settled belief
,
showiness
,
solemnity
,
starchiness
,
stiffness
,
stiltedness
,
stuffiness
,
stylization
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trust
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
weight
gobbledegook
collapse
related words >
balderdash
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
circumlocution
,
crap
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
equivocation
,
eyewash
,
garbage
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
hogwash
,
humbug
,
jargon
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
mumbo-jumbo
,
nonsense
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
quibbling
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
shiftiness
,
vagueness
fantasize
collapse
portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife"
related words >
coin
,
conceit
,
conceive
,
conceptualize
,
concoct
,
cook up
,
counterfeit
,
create
,
dream
,
dream up
,
envisage
,
envision
,
experience imaginatively
,
fabricate
,
fake
,
fancy
,
fictionalize
,
forge
,
fudge
,
hallucinate
,
hatch
,
hoke up
,
ideate
,
imagine
,
invent
,
make up
,
manufacture
,
mold
,
mull over
,
muse
,
originate
,
produce
,
shape
,
speculate
,
suppose
,
think up
,
trump up
transmigratory
collapse
related words >
circumforaneous
,
discursive
,
divagatory
,
drifting
,
errant
,
flitting
,
floating
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
fugitive
,
gadding
,
gypsy-like
,
gypsyish
,
landloping
,
meandering
,
migrant
,
migrational
,
migratory
,
mobile
,
nomad
,
nomadic
,
rambling
,
ranging
,
roaming
,
roving
,
shifting
,
straggling
,
straying
,
strolling
,
traipsing
,
transient
,
transitory
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
wandering
migratory
collapse
used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds"
related words >
circumforaneous
,
discursive
,
divagatory
,
drifting
,
errant
,
flitting
,
floating
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
fugitive
,
gadding
,
gypsy-like
,
gypsyish
,
landloping
,
meandering
,
migrant
,
migrational
,
mobile
,
nomad
,
nomadic
,
rambling
,
ranging
,
roaming
,
roving
,
shifting
,
straggling
,
straying
,
strolling
,
traipsing
,
transient
,
transitory
,
transmigratory
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
wandering
pontificate
collapse
talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"
administer a pontifical office
related words >
Apostolic See
,
Barnumize
,
See of Rome
,
aedileship
,
archbishopric
,
archiepiscopacy
,
archiepiscopate
,
aristocracy
,
bishopric
,
blow
,
bombast
,
chairmanship
,
chancellery
,
chancellorate
,
chancellorship
,
chiefery
,
chiefry
,
chieftaincy
,
chieftainry
,
chieftainship
,
cock
,
consulate
,
consulship
,
deanery
,
dictatorship
,
dictature
,
directorship
,
dogmatize
,
emirate
,
episcopacy
,
governorship
,
headship
,
hegemony
,
hierarchy
,
inflate
,
lay it on
,
leadership
,
look big
,
lordship
,
magistracy
,
magistrateship
,
magistrature
,
masterdom
,
mastership
,
mastery
,
mayoralty
,
mayorship
,
metropolitanate
,
metropolitanship
,
nobility
,
oracle
,
oraculate
,
papacy
,
papality
,
pashadom
,
pashalic
,
patriarchate
,
patriarchy
,
peacock
,
pile it on
,
pontificality
,
popedom
,
popehood
,
popeship
,
prefectship
,
prefecture
,
premiership
,
presidency
,
presidentship
,
prime-ministership
,
prime-ministry
,
princedom
,
princeship
,
principality
,
proclaim
,
proconsulate
,
proconsulship
,
protectorate
,
protectorship
,
provostry
,
provostship
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
put on side
,
rectorate
,
rectorship
,
regency
,
regentship
,
ritz it
,
ruling class
,
seigniory
,
seneschalship
,
seneschalsy
,
sheikhdom
,
sheriffalty
,
sheriffcy
,
sheriffdom
,
shrievalty
,
supervisorship
,
suzerainship
,
suzerainty
,
swagger
,
swank
,
swell
,
swell it
,
talk big
,
talk highfalutin
,
the Vatican
,
tribunate
,
vapor
,
vizierate
,
viziership
untalkative
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
word-bound
,
wordless
wordage
collapse
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
locution
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
talk
,
thesaurus
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vocabulary
,
wordhoard
,
wording
,
words
tight lipped
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
parlance
collapse
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
parole
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
talk
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
fantasy
collapse
imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"
related words >
Marchen
,
Walter Mitty
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
absence of mind
,
absentmindedness
,
absorption
,
abstractedness
,
abstraction
,
adventure story
,
alienation
,
allegory
,
apologue
,
apparition
,
appearance
,
ardor
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
be absent
,
bedtime story
,
bemusement
,
bizarrerie
,
blame-shifting
,
boutade
,
brainchild
,
brainstorm
,
brown study
,
bubble
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
castle-building
,
chimera
,
compensation
,
conceit
,
conceiving
,
concoction
,
concupiscence
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
creativity
,
crotchet
,
curiosity
,
daydream
,
daydreamer
,
daydreaming
,
decompensation
,
defense mechanism
,
delirium
,
delusion
,
depth of thought
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
desideration
,
desire
,
detective story
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
divagate
,
dream
,
dream of
,
dreaming
,
drive
,
eagerness
,
eidolon
,
emotional insulation
,
enchantment
,
engrossment
,
envisioning
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fad
,
fairy tale
,
fancy
,
fantasizing
,
fantasque
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasticism
,
fantasying
,
ferlie
,
fiction
,
figment
,
figure
,
fit of abstraction
,
flight
,
flight of fancy
,
flimflam
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
fool notion
,
form
,
freak
,
freak out
,
freakish inspiration
,
fumes of fancy
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
go woolgathering
,
grotesquerie
,
hallucination
,
harebrained idea
,
hope
,
horme
,
horse opera
,
humor
,
idle fancy
,
idolum
,
illusion
,
image
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imaginativeness
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
intellectual curiosity
,
invention
,
inventiveness
,
isolation
,
kink
,
legend
,
libido
,
love story
,
lust for learning
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
masquerade
,
megrim
,
mind
,
miracle
,
mirage
,
moon
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
muse
,
musefulness
,
musing
,
muted ecstasy
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
need
,
negativism
,
nightmare
,
notion
,
nursery tale
,
originality
,
overcompensation
,
parable
,
passing fancy
,
passion
,
phantasm
,
phantasma
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
pipe
,
pipe dream
,
pipe-dream
,
pipe-dreaming
,
pleasure
,
pleasure principle
,
preoccupation
,
presence
,
prodigy
,
projection
,
psychotaxis
,
quirk
,
rainbow
,
rationalization
,
resistance
,
reverie
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
sexual desire
,
shade
,
shadow
,
shape
,
shocker
,
sick fancy
,
sign
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
specter
,
stargaze
,
stargazing
,
stray
,
study
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
suspense story
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thirst for knowledge
,
thriller
,
toy
,
trance
,
trip
,
urge
,
vagary
,
vapor
,
vision
,
waking dream
,
wander
,
want
,
wanting
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
whodunit
,
wildest dream
,
wildest dreams
,
will
,
will and pleasure
,
wish
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
,
wonder
,
wonderwork
,
woolgathering
,
work of fiction
,
wraith
fictionalize
collapse
make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
related words >
allegorize
,
coin
,
conceit
,
conceive
,
conceptualize
,
concoct
,
create
,
dream up
,
experience imaginatively
,
fable
,
fabricate
,
fabulize
,
fancy
,
fantasize
,
hatch
,
ideate
,
imagine
,
invent
,
mold
,
mythicize
,
mythify
,
mythologize
,
narrate
,
novelize
,
originate
,
produce
,
recite
,
recount
,
rehearse
,
relate
,
report
,
retell
,
romance
,
shape
,
storify
,
suppose
,
tell
,
tell a story
,
think up
,
unfold a tale
freeborn
collapse
born free of free parents
related words >
afoot and lighthearted
,
at large
,
at liberty
,
clear
,
detached
,
disengaged
,
easygoing
,
emancipated
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
free
,
free and easy
,
free as air
,
freed
,
go-as-you-please
,
in the clear
,
liberated
,
loose
,
on the loose
,
released
,
scot-free
,
unattached
,
uncommitted
,
unengaged
,
uninvolved
wheedling
collapse
related words >
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
envision
collapse
picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President"
related words >
anticipate
,
call to mind
,
call up
,
conceive
,
conjure up
,
contemplate
,
envisage
,
fancy
,
feature
,
forecast
,
foreglimpse
,
foresee
,
foretaste
,
have in mind
,
have in view
,
image
,
imagine
,
just see
,
look ahead
,
look beyond
,
look forward to
,
look upon
,
meditate
,
objectify
,
picture
,
predict
,
prophesy
,
realize
,
regard
,
represent
,
see
,
see ahead
,
see beforehand
,
summon up
,
view
,
viewpoint
,
vision
,
visualize
overshoot
collapse
an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
aim too high; "The plan overshoots its aim"
shoot beyond or over (a target)
related words >
alight
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
go beyond
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
overdo
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overreach
,
overrun
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overstep
,
overstride
,
pancake
,
pass
,
settle down
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
talk down
,
touch down
,
transcend
,
upwind
lecture
collapse
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
related words >
address
,
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
assignment
,
berate
,
berating
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
castigation
,
censure
,
chalk talk
,
chastise
,
chastisement
,
chew out
,
chide
,
chiding
,
correct
,
correction
,
criticism
,
declaim
,
declamation
,
deliver a lecture
,
diatribe
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
dissertation
,
dress down
,
dressing-down
,
exercise
,
explain
,
exposit
,
exposition
,
expound
,
fulminate against
,
harangue
,
have words with
,
hold forth
,
homework
,
homily
,
instruction
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
moralize
,
object lesson
,
objurgate
,
objurgation
,
orate
,
paper
,
philippic
,
point a moral
,
pontificate
,
preach
,
preachification
,
preachify
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
prelect
,
prelection
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rating
,
read a lesson
,
read a sermon
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religious discourse
,
remonstration
,
reprehend
,
reprehension
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprobation
,
reproof
,
reproval
,
reprove
,
scold
,
scolding
,
screed
,
sermon
,
sermonette
,
sermonize
,
set down
,
set straight
,
set task
,
skull session
,
spank
,
spanking
,
speech
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
tell off
,
tongue-lash
,
tongue-lashing
,
travelogue
,
treatise
,
upbraid
,
upbraiding
,
warn
,
wig
watchdog
collapse
a dog trained to guard property
a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste; "she is the global watchdog for human rights abuses"
related words >
Cerberus
,
Seeing Eye dog
,
bandog
,
bitch
,
bowwow
,
canine
,
cerberus
,
clanger
,
custos
,
dog
,
fancy dog
,
guard dog
,
guardian
,
guide dog
,
gyp
,
keeper
,
kennel
,
lap dog
,
pack of dogs
,
pooch
,
pup
,
puppy
,
sheep dog
,
show dog
,
sled dog
,
slut
,
toy dog
,
warden
,
whelp
,
working dog
quirk
collapse
a narrow groove beside a beading
twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
related words >
aberration
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
aroma
,
asymmetry
,
attribute
,
badge
,
boutade
,
brainstorm
,
brand
,
buckle
,
cachet
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cast
,
cavil
,
character
,
characteristic
,
conceit
,
configuration
,
contortion
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
cut
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
differentia
,
differential
,
disproportion
,
distinctive feature
,
distortion
,
dodge
,
earmark
,
eccentricity
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasy
,
feature
,
figure
,
flavor
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
gnarl
,
gust
,
habit
,
hallmark
,
harebrained idea
,
humor
,
idiocrasy
,
idiosyncrasy
,
imbalance
,
impress
,
impression
,
index
,
individualism
,
irregularity
,
jesuitism
,
keynote
,
kink
,
knot
,
lineaments
,
lopsidedness
,
maggot
,
mannerism
,
mark
,
marking
,
megrim
,
minauderie
,
mold
,
nature
,
notion
,
oddity
,
odor
,
particularity
,
passing fancy
,
peculiar trait
,
peculiarity
,
property
,
quality
,
quibble
,
quiddity
,
quillet
,
quip
,
quodlibet
,
savor
,
screw
,
seal
,
shape
,
shuffle
,
singularity
,
smack
,
specialty
,
stamp
,
taint
,
tang
,
taste
,
token
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
toy
,
trademark
,
trait
,
trick
,
trick of behavior
,
turn
,
twist
,
unsymmetry
,
vagary
,
warp
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
ramble
collapse
an aimless amble on a winding course
related words >
Wanderjahr
,
afoot and lighthearted
,
airing
,
amble
,
babble
,
bat around
,
be insane
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blether
,
bum
,
bumming
,
chat
,
chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
constitutional
,
count ties
,
depart
,
deviate
,
digress
,
discursion
,
dither
,
divagate
,
divagation
,
diverge
,
dote
,
drift
,
drifting
,
drivel
,
drool
,
err
,
errantry
,
excurse
,
flit
,
flitting
,
forced march
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gad
,
gad about
,
gadding
,
gallivant
,
gas
,
get sidetracked
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go about
,
go adrift
,
go astray
,
go away
,
go off
,
go on
,
go the rounds
,
gossip
,
gush
,
have a demon
,
haver
,
hike
,
hit the road
,
hit the trail
,
hobo
,
hoboism
,
itineracy
,
itinerancy
,
jabber
,
jaunt
,
jaw
,
knock about
,
knock around
,
march
,
maunder
,
meander
,
mooch
,
mosey
,
mush
,
natter
,
nomadism
,
nomadize
,
palaver
,
parade
,
patter
,
perambulate
,
peregrinate
,
peregrination
,
pererrate
,
pererration
,
peripatetic journey
,
peripateticism
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prattle
,
promenade
,
prowl
,
rage
,
ramble on
,
rambling
,
range
,
rant
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
rave
,
reel off
,
roam
,
roaming
,
rove
,
roving
,
run about
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
run on
,
saunter
,
schlep
,
scramble
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
snake
,
spout
,
spout off
,
sprangle
,
spread-eagle
,
straddle
,
straggle
,
stray
,
straying
,
stretch
,
stroll
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
tittle-tattle
,
tour
,
traipse
,
traipsing
,
tramp
,
travel
,
trek
,
trudge
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twist
,
twist and turn
,
vagabond
,
vagabondage
,
vagabondia
,
vagabondism
,
vagabondize
,
vagrancy
,
waffle
,
walk
,
walk the tracks
,
walkabout
,
walking tour
,
wander
,
wandering
,
wanderlust
,
wayfare
,
wayfaring
,
wind
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
tale
collapse
related words >
account
,
aggregate
,
all
,
amount
,
anecdotage
,
anecdote
,
back-fence gossip
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
be-all and end-all
,
belittlement
,
blague
,
box score
,
calumny
,
canard
,
cast
,
chitchat
,
chronicle
,
cock-and-bull story
,
count
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
difference
,
disparagement
,
entirety
,
enumerate
,
epic
,
epos
,
exaggeration
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
groundless rumor
,
half-truth
,
history
,
idle talk
,
legal fiction
,
libel
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
misrepresentation
,
myth
,
narration
,
narrative
,
newsmongering
,
number
,
numerate
,
piece of gossip
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
product
,
quantity
,
recital
,
reckoning
,
record
,
report
,
rumor
,
saga
,
scandal
,
score
,
scuttlebutt
,
slander
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
sum
,
sum total
,
summation
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tally
,
taradiddle
,
tattle
,
tell
,
the bottom line
,
the story
,
the whole story
,
tittle-tattle
,
total
,
totality
,
tote
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
whole
,
x number
,
yam
,
yarn
fiction
collapse
a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
anecdote
,
apologue
,
apparition
,
article
,
autograph
,
bedtime story
,
blague
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
canard
,
chimera
,
cock-and-bull story
,
composition
,
computer printout
,
concoction
,
copy
,
delirium
,
detective story
,
document
,
draft
,
edited version
,
eidolon
,
engrossment
,
essay
,
exaggeration
,
extravaganza
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fabrication
,
fair copy
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
figment
,
final draft
,
finished version
,
first draft
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
flimsy
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
forgery
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
hallucination
,
holograph
,
horse opera
,
idle fancy
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
legal fiction
,
legend
,
letter
,
lie
,
literae scriptae
,
literary artefact
,
literary production
,
literature
,
little white lie
,
love story
,
lucubration
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
manuscript
,
matter
,
mendacity
,
misrepresentation
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
narrative
,
nonfiction
,
nursery tale
,
opus
,
original
,
paper
,
parable
,
parchment
,
penscript
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
piece
,
piece of writing
,
pious fiction
,
play
,
poem
,
prevarication
,
printed matter
,
printout
,
production
,
reading matter
,
recension
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
screed
,
scrip
,
script
,
scrive
,
scroll
,
second draft
,
shocker
,
sick fancy
,
slight stretching
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
story
,
suspense story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
the written word
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thriller
,
transcript
,
transcription
,
trip
,
trumped-up story
,
typescript
,
untruth
,
vapor
,
version
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
white lie
,
whodunit
,
wildest dreams
,
work
,
work of fiction
,
writing
,
yarn
scot free
collapse
free from harm or penalty; "he went scot-free"
related words >
afoot and lighthearted
,
at large
,
at liberty
,
clear
,
detached
,
disengaged
,
easygoing
,
emancipated
,
escaped
,
fled
,
flown
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
free
,
free and easy
,
free as air
,
freeborn
,
freed
,
fugitive
,
go-as-you-please
,
in the clear
,
liberated
,
loose
,
on the loose
,
out of
,
released
,
runaway
,
unattached
,
uncommitted
,
unengaged
,
uninvolved
,
well out of
endearment
collapse
the act of showing affection
related words >
artful endearments
,
bait
,
baited trap
,
blandishments
,
caress
,
charm
,
come-on
,
decoy
,
decoy duck
,
drawcard
,
drawing card
,
ground bait
,
honeyed words
,
hook
,
lure
,
pat
,
snare
,
soft words
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
trap
liberated
collapse
(of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination
related words >
afoot and lighthearted
,
at large
,
at liberty
,
clear
,
delivered
,
detached
,
disengaged
,
easygoing
,
emancipated
,
extricated
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
free
,
free and easy
,
free as air
,
freeborn
,
freed
,
go-as-you-please
,
in the clear
,
loose
,
on parole
,
on the loose
,
redeemed
,
released
,
rescued
,
scot-free
,
unattached
,
unbound
,
uncommitted
,
unengaged
,
uninvolved
,
unshackled
,
untied
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