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redundancy
collapse
repetition of an act needlessly
the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
related words >
EDP
,
abundance
,
amplitude
,
avalanche
,
battology
,
bedizenment
,
bit
,
channel
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
cloud of words
,
communication explosion
,
communication theory
,
copiousness
,
data retrieval
,
data storage
,
decoding
,
deluge
,
diffuseness
,
diffusion
,
diffusiveness
,
duplication
,
duplication of effort
,
effusion
,
effusiveness
,
electronic data processing
,
embarras de richesses
,
embellishment
,
encoding
,
enough
,
entropy
,
excess
,
expletive
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
exuberance
,
fat
,
featherbedding
,
fecundity
,
fertility
,
filling
,
flatulence
,
flood
,
fluency
,
formlessness
,
frill
,
frills
,
frippery
,
gingerbread
,
gush
,
gushing
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
information theory
,
inundation
,
landslide
,
lavishness
,
logorrhea
,
luxury
,
macrology
,
money to burn
,
more than enough
,
needlessness
,
noise
,
ornamentation
,
outpour
,
overabundance
,
overaccumulation
,
overadornment
,
overage
,
overbounteousness
,
overcopiousness
,
overdose
,
overflow
,
overlap
,
overlavishness
,
overluxuriance
,
overmeasure
,
overmuchness
,
overnumerousness
,
overplentifulness
,
overplenty
,
overplus
,
overpopulation
,
overprofusion
,
oversufficiency
,
oversupply
,
padding
,
palilogy
,
payroll padding
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
plenty
,
pleonasm
,
plethora
,
prodigality
,
productivity
,
profuseness
,
profusion
,
prolificacy
,
prolificity
,
prolixity
,
rampancy
,
rankness
,
redundance
,
reiteration
,
reiterativeness
,
repetition for effect
,
repetitiveness
,
roundabout
,
signal
,
spate
,
stammering
,
stuttering
,
superabundance
,
superfluity
,
superfluousness
,
superflux
,
surplus
,
surplusage
,
talkativeness
,
tautologism
,
tautology
,
teemingness
,
tirade
,
tumidity
,
turgidity
,
unnecessariness
,
verbality
,
verbosity
whim wham
collapse
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
agate
,
bagatelle
,
ball
,
baseball bat
,
bat
,
battledore
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
blocks
,
boutade
,
brainstorm
,
brass farthing
,
bric-a-brac
,
button
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cent
,
checkerboard
,
chessboard
,
club
,
cockhorse
,
conceit
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
cricket bat
,
crotchet
,
cue
,
curio
,
doll
,
doll carriage
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasy
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fig
,
fleabite
,
flimflam
,
folderol
,
fool notion
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
golf club
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
harebrained idea
,
hill of beans
,
hobbyhorse
,
humor
,
jack-in-the-box
,
jacks
,
jackstones
,
jackstraws
,
jest
,
joke
,
kickshaw
,
kink
,
knack
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
maggot
,
marble
,
marionette
,
megrim
,
mig
,
minikin
,
mockery
,
molehill
,
notion
,
paper doll
,
passing fancy
,
peppercorn
,
picayune
,
pick-up sticks
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
pinwheel
,
plaything
,
puppet
,
quirk
,
racket
,
rag doll
,
rap
,
red cent
,
rocking horse
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
shit
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
sport
,
steelie
,
straw
,
taw
,
teetotum
,
top
,
toy
,
toy soldier
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
vagary
,
whim
,
whimsy
farthing
collapse
a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
ace
,
atom
,
bagatelle
,
bauble
,
bawbee
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
brass farthing
,
button
,
cent
,
crown
,
curio
,
dab
,
dole
,
dollar
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
farce
,
feather
,
fig
,
fiver
,
fleabite
,
fleck
,
florin
,
flyspeck
,
folderol
,
fourpence
,
fourpenny
,
fourth
,
fourth part
,
fragment
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
guinea
,
hair
,
half crown
,
half dollar
,
halfpenny
,
handful
,
hill of beans
,
iota
,
jest
,
joke
,
jot
,
kickshaw
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
little
,
little bit
,
mag
,
meg
,
minikin
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
mockery
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
molehill
,
monkey
,
mote
,
new pence
,
np
,
nutshell
,
one-fourth
,
ounce
,
p
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pence
,
penny
,
peppercorn
,
picayune
,
pin
,
pinch
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
pittance
,
point
,
pony
,
pound
,
quart
,
quarter
,
quartern
,
quarto
,
quid
,
rap
,
red cent
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
scruple
,
shilling
,
shit
,
sixpence
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
straw
,
tenner
,
thimbleful
,
threepence
,
threepenny bit
,
thrippence
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
toy
,
trifle
,
trifling amount
,
trinket
,
trivia
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
twenty-five cents
,
twenty-five percent
,
two bits
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
whim-wham
,
whit
cent
collapse
a fractional monetary unit of several countries
related words >
C
,
C-note
,
Deutschmark
,
G
,
G-note
,
Mark
,
Reichsmark
,
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
afghani
,
anna
,
bagatelle
,
baht
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
brass farthing
,
buck
,
button
,
cartwheel
,
centavo
,
centime
,
century
,
conto
,
copper
,
curio
,
dime
,
dollar
,
dollar bill
,
dong
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fifty cents
,
fig
,
fin
,
fish
,
five cents
,
five hundred dollars
,
five-dollar bill
,
five-hundred-dollar bill
,
five-spot
,
fiver
,
fleabite
,
florin
,
folderol
,
four bits
,
franc
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
frogskin
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
grand
,
guilder
,
gulden
,
hair
,
half G
,
half a C
,
half dollar
,
half grand
,
halfpenny
,
hill of beans
,
hundred-dollar bill
,
iron man
,
jest
,
joke
,
kickshaw
,
kip
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
kopeck
,
krona
,
krone
,
lira
,
mill
,
milreis
,
minikin
,
mockery
,
molehill
,
nickel
,
penny
,
peppercorn
,
peseta
,
picayune
,
pie
,
piece of eight
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
pistareen
,
pound
,
quarter
,
rand
,
rap
,
red cent
,
rial
,
row of pins
,
ruble
,
rupee
,
rush
,
sawbuck
,
shekel
,
shilling
,
shit
,
silver dollar
,
skin
,
smacker
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sol
,
sou
,
stiver
,
straw
,
ten cents
,
ten-spot
,
tenner
,
thousand dollars
,
thousand-dollar bill
,
toy
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
twenty-dollar bill
,
twenty-five cents
,
two bits
,
two cents
,
two-dollar bill
,
two-spot
,
twopence
,
whim-wham
,
won
,
yard
,
yen
picayune
collapse
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
bagatelle
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bickering
,
bit
,
brass farthing
,
button
,
captious
,
caviling
,
cent
,
choplogic
,
curio
,
cursory
,
depthless
,
detailed
,
equivocatory
,
evasive
,
exact
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
few
,
fig
,
finicky
,
fleabite
,
folderol
,
footling
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
full
,
fussy
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
hair
,
hairsplitting
,
halfpenny
,
hedging
,
hill of beans
,
immateriality
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequent
,
inconsequential
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderable
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insignificance
,
insignificant
,
irrelevance
,
jerkwater
,
jest
,
joke
,
kickshaw
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
little
,
littleness
,
logic-chopping
,
low
,
low priority
,
marginality
,
meager
,
measly
,
meticulous
,
miniature
,
minikin
,
minute
,
mockery
,
molehill
,
negligibility
,
negligible
,
nice
,
niggling
,
nit-picking
,
no great shakes
,
one-horse
,
paltering
,
paltry
,
particular
,
peppercorn
,
pettifogging
,
pettiness
,
petty
,
picayunish
,
picayunishness
,
piddling
,
piffling
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
pokiness
,
poky
,
precise
,
puniness
,
punk
,
puny
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
rap
,
red cent
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
secondariness
,
shallow
,
shit
,
short
,
shuffling
,
skin-deep
,
slightness
,
small
,
small-beer
,
small-time
,
smallness
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
special
,
specific
,
straw
,
superficial
,
tinhorn
,
tiny
,
toy
,
trichoschistic
,
trifle
,
trifling
,
trinket
,
trivial
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
two cents
,
two-bit
,
two-by-four
,
twopence
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
whim-wham
frill
collapse
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
(paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
related words >
addition
,
adornment
,
amenity
,
beading
,
beauties
,
bedizenment
,
binding
,
bonus
,
bordering
,
bordure
,
bravery
,
chiffon
,
clinquant
,
colors
,
colors of rhetoric
,
crease
,
creasing
,
crimp
,
crisp
,
decoration
,
dog-ear
,
double
,
double over
,
doubling
,
duplication
,
duplication of effort
,
duplicature
,
edging
,
elegant variation
,
embellishment
,
embroidery
,
enfold
,
expletive
,
extra
,
extra added attraction
,
extra dash
,
extravagance
,
fat
,
featherbedding
,
festoons
,
figure
,
figure of speech
,
filigree
,
filling
,
fillip
,
fimbria
,
fimbriation
,
fine writing
,
finery
,
flection
,
flexure
,
floridity
,
floridness
,
flounce
,
flourish
,
floweriness
,
flowers of speech
,
flute
,
fold
,
fold over
,
folderol
,
foofaraw
,
frilliness
,
frilling
,
frills
,
frills and furbelows
,
fringe
,
frippery
,
froufrou
,
furbelow
,
fuss
,
gaiety
,
galloon
,
gather
,
gaudery
,
gewgaw
,
gilding
,
gilt
,
gingerbread
,
hem
,
infold
,
interfold
,
jazz
,
lagniappe
,
lap over
,
lapel
,
lappet
,
list
,
lushness
,
luxuriance
,
luxury
,
motif
,
needlessness
,
ornament
,
ornamentation
,
ostentation
,
overadornment
,
overlap
,
padding
,
paste
,
payroll padding
,
pinchbeck
,
plait
,
plat
,
pleat
,
pleonasm
,
plica
,
plicate
,
plication
,
plicature
,
ply
,
premium
,
prolixity
,
purple patches
,
quill
,
redundance
,
redundancy
,
ruche
,
ruching
,
ruff
,
ruffle
,
selvage
,
showiness
,
skirting
,
something extra
,
stuffing
,
superaddition
,
superfluity
,
superfluousness
,
tautology
,
tinsel
,
trappings
,
trickery
,
trimming
,
trumpery
,
tuck
,
turn over
,
twill
,
twist
,
unnecessariness
,
valance
,
verbosity
,
welt
,
wrinkle
tinsel
collapse
a thread with glittering metal foil attached
a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the tinsel of self-promotion"
interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of Hollywood"
related words >
affected
,
apocryphal
,
apparent
,
artificial
,
assumed
,
bastard
,
bead
,
bejewel
,
beribbon
,
bespangle
,
blatant
,
blink
,
blinking
,
bogus
,
bravery
,
brazen
,
brummagem
,
cheat
,
chiffon
,
chintzy
,
clinquant
,
colorable
,
colored
,
coruscate
,
coruscation
,
counterfeit
,
counterfeited
,
diamond
,
distorted
,
dressed up
,
dummy
,
embellished
,
embroidered
,
engrave
,
ersatz
,
factitious
,
fake
,
faked
,
fakement
,
falsified
,
feather
,
feigned
,
festoons
,
fictitious
,
fictive
,
figure
,
filigree
,
finery
,
firefly
,
flag
,
flashy
,
flounce
,
flower
,
folderol
,
foofaraw
,
forgery
,
frame-up
,
fraud
,
frilliness
,
frilling
,
frills
,
frills and furbelows
,
frippery
,
froufrou
,
fuss
,
gaiety
,
garbled
,
garish
,
garland
,
gaudery
,
gem
,
gilded
,
gilding
,
gilt
,
gingerbread
,
glaring
,
glimmer
,
glimmering
,
glisk
,
glisten
,
glister
,
glitter
,
glittering
,
glowworm
,
hoax
,
illegitimate
,
illuminate
,
imitation
,
impostor
,
jewel
,
junk
,
junky
,
loud
,
make-believe
,
man-made
,
meretricious
,
mock
,
ostensible
,
paint
,
paste
,
perverted
,
phony
,
pinchbeck
,
plausible
,
plume
,
pretended
,
pseudo
,
put-on
,
put-up job
,
quasi
,
queer
,
ribbon
,
rip-off
,
scintilla
,
scintillate
,
scintillation
,
seeming
,
self-styled
,
sham
,
shimmer
,
shimmering
,
shoddy
,
simulacrum
,
simulated
,
so-called
,
soi-disant
,
spangle
,
spark
,
sparkle
,
specious
,
spurious
,
stroboscopic light
,
superfluity
,
supposititious
,
swindle
,
synthetic
,
tawdry
,
tin
,
titivated
,
trappings
,
trickery
,
trumpery
,
twinkle
,
twinkling
,
twisted
,
unauthentic
,
ungenuine
,
unnatural
,
unreal
,
warped
,
whited sepulcher
,
wreathe
hoot
collapse
a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance"
utter the characteristic sound of owls
related words >
Bronx
,
Bronx cheer
,
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
bagatelle
,
bark
,
battle cry
,
bauble
,
bawl
,
bean
,
bellow
,
bibelot
,
bird
,
bit
,
boo
,
booing
,
brass farthing
,
button
,
cackle
,
call
,
carol
,
catcall
,
caterwaul
,
caw
,
cent
,
chatter
,
cheep
,
cheer
,
chirk
,
chirp
,
chirr
,
chirrup
,
chitter
,
chuck
,
clack
,
cluck
,
cock-a-doodle-doo
,
coo
,
croak
,
cronk
,
crow
,
cry
,
cuckoo
,
curio
,
drum
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fig
,
fleabite
,
folderol
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
gabble
,
gaggle
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
give the bird
,
give the raspberry
,
gobble
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guggle
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hail
,
hair
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halfpenny
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halloo
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hill of beans
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hiss
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hissing
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holler
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hollo
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honk
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hoo
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howl
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hurrah
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jest
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joke
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kickshaw
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knickknack
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knickknackery
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minikin
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mockery
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molehill
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peep
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peppercorn
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picayune
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
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pinprick
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pip
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pipe
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quack
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rallying cry
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rap
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raspberry
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razz
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red cent
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roar
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roll
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row of pins
,
rush
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scold
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scream
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screech
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shit
,
shout
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shriek
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sing
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
squall
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squawk
,
squeal
,
straw
,
the bird
,
toy
,
trifle
,
trill
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trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
tweet
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twit
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twitter
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two cents
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twopence
,
war cry
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war whoop
,
warble
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whim-wham
,
whistle
,
whistle at
,
whoop
,
yammer
,
yap
,
yawl
,
yawp
,
yell
,
yelp
,
yo-ho
,
yowl
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a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
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fig
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hair
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nimble wit
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parody
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pin
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pinch of snuff
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pinprick
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pleasantry
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rap
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raw comedy
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ready wit
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realistic comedy
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red cent
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romantic comedy
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row of pins
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rush
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salt
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sarcasm
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satire
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satyr play
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savor of wit
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sentimental comedy
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slapstick
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tuppence
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two cents
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twopence
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whim-wham
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wicked imitation
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wit
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