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hardworking
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characterized by hard work and perseverance
related words >
ardent
,
assiduous
,
diligent
,
drudging
,
energetic
,
fervent
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hard
,
indefatigable
,
industrious
,
laboring
,
laborious
,
never idle
,
pegging
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
relentless
,
sedulous
,
slaving
,
sleepless
,
slogging
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
striving
,
struggling
,
sweating
,
tireless
,
toiling
,
unflagging
,
unremitting
,
unsleeping
,
unsparing
,
unwearied
,
vehement
,
working
,
zealous
caricature
collapse
a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"
related words >
Atticism
,
aggrandize
,
aggrandizement
,
agile wit
,
amplification
,
amplify
,
anamorphosis
,
animated cartoon
,
bad likeness
,
ballyhoo
,
belie
,
big talk
,
black humor
,
blowing up
,
bosh
,
botch
,
build up
,
bunk
,
burlesque
,
camouflage
,
carry too far
,
cartoon
,
cheat
,
clinquant
,
color
,
comedy
,
comic book
,
comic strip
,
comics
,
daub
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
disguise
,
distort
,
distortion
,
draw the longbow
,
dry wit
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
esprit
,
exaggerate
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
fake
,
falsify
,
farce
,
funnies
,
gammon
,
garble
,
go to extremes
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
hit off on
,
hokum
,
huckstering
,
humor
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
hyperbolize
,
imitation
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
irony
,
lampoon
,
laughingstock
,
lay it on
,
libel
,
magnification
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
miscolor
,
misquote
,
misreport
,
misrepresent
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
mock
,
mockery
,
moonshine
,
nimble wit
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overemphasis
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstatement
,
overstress
,
parody
,
pasquinade
,
pastiche
,
pervert
,
phony
,
pile it on
,
pinchbeck
,
pleasantry
,
pretty wit
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
quick wit
,
ready wit
,
ridicule
,
salt
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
satirize
,
savor of wit
,
scratch
,
scribble
,
send up
,
sensationalism
,
sham
,
shoddy
,
slant
,
slapstick
,
slapstick humor
,
spoof
,
squib
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
stretching
,
subtle wit
,
superlative
,
take off
,
take off on
,
take-off
,
takeoff
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tall talk
,
tinsel
,
tout
,
touting
,
travesty
,
twist
,
understate
,
visual humor
,
warp
,
wicked imitation
,
wit
,
wrench
dilation
collapse
the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"
a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
boil
,
bump
,
bunion
,
burlesque
,
carbuncle
,
caricature
,
corn
,
cyst
,
development
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
elaboration
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expatiation
,
explication
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
furuncle
,
gassiness
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
lump
,
magnification
,
meteorism
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
pimple
,
pock
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
pustule
,
rising
,
sebaceous cyst
,
sensationalism
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
tumor
,
turgescence
,
turgescency
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
unfolding
,
wen
,
windiness
,
working-out
idleness
collapse
having no employment
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
big deal
,
cautiousness
,
circumspection
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
creeping
,
dawdling
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dolce far niente
,
dormancy
,
drawl
,
emptiness
,
flimsiness
,
foolishness
,
foot-dragging
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
futility
,
idle hands
,
idle hours
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
inanity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
inoccupation
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
lassitude
,
laze
,
laziness
,
lazing
,
leisureliness
,
lentitude
,
lentor
,
lethargy
,
levity
,
lightness
,
loafing
,
lollygagging
,
malingering
,
meditation
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nugacity
,
otiosity
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
pokiness
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
reluctance
,
shallowness
,
shiftlessness
,
shilly-shallying
,
shirking
,
silliness
,
slackness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slouch
,
slowness
,
sluggardy
,
sluggishness
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
superficiality
,
tentativeness
,
torpor
,
triflingness
,
triteness
,
triviality
,
trivialness
,
unemployment
,
vacuity
,
vanity
,
vapidity
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
unemployable
collapse
not acceptable for employment as a worker; "his illiteracy made him unemployable"
related words >
at leisure
,
at liberty
,
at loose ends
,
available
,
disengaged
,
fallow
,
free
,
functionless
,
idle
,
in disrepair
,
inapplicable
,
inoperable
,
inoperative
,
jobless
,
leisure
,
leisured
,
lumpen
,
nonfunctional
,
nonutilitarian
,
off
,
off duty
,
off work
,
otiose
,
out of employ
,
out of harness
,
out of order
,
out of whack
,
out of work
,
unconducive
,
unemployed
,
unfit
,
unhelpful
,
unoccupied
,
unsuitable
,
unusable
,
unworkable
deal with
collapse
related words >
accomplish
,
achieve
,
act toward
,
affect
,
air
,
analyze
,
answer to
,
appertain to
,
apply to
,
attain
,
be in connection
,
be in contact
,
be responsible for
,
bear on
,
bear upon
,
behave toward
,
belong to
,
bring to account
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
canvass
,
care for
,
carry on
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
castigate
,
chasten
,
chastise
,
clear
,
comment upon
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
compass
,
complete
,
concern
,
conduct
,
connect
,
consider
,
consummate
,
contend with
,
control
,
controvert
,
converse
,
cope with
,
correct
,
correspond to
,
criticize
,
deal by
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
deliberate upon
,
descant
,
direct
,
discharge
,
discipline
,
discourse
,
discourse about
,
discuss
,
dispatch
,
dispose of
,
dissert
,
dissertate
,
do
,
do business with
,
do by
,
do the job
,
do the trick
,
do with
,
drive
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
enact
,
examine
,
exchange views
,
execute
,
fetch
,
fulfill
,
go into
,
handle
,
have connection with
,
have dealings with
,
have intercourse
,
have truck with
,
hold communication
,
inflict upon
,
inquire into
,
interchange
,
intercommunicate
,
interest
,
investigate
,
involve
,
knock around
,
knock off
,
liaise with
,
link with
,
make
,
make go
,
manage
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
masthead
,
operate
,
pass under review
,
patronize
,
penalize
,
perform
,
perform on
,
pertain to
,
pillory
,
pilot
,
play
,
polish off
,
practice
,
produce
,
punish
,
put away
,
rap
,
realize
,
reason
,
reason about
,
reason the point
,
refer to
,
regard
,
relate to
,
remark upon
,
respect
,
respond to
,
review
,
rid
,
run
,
see to
,
serve
,
settle with
,
shop at
,
sift
,
speak
,
square accounts
,
steer
,
steward
,
study
,
succeed
,
survey
,
take
,
take care of
,
take to task
,
take up
,
talk
,
talk about
,
talk of
,
talk over
,
thresh out
,
tie in with
,
touch
,
touch upon
,
trade at
,
trade with
,
traffic with
,
transact
,
transact business with
,
treat
,
treat of
,
turn the trick
,
unburden
,
use
,
ventilate
,
visit upon
,
work
,
work out
,
write up
wear down
collapse
related words >
ablate
,
abrade
,
affect
,
argue into
,
beat
,
bend
,
bias
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
burn out
,
captivate
,
charm
,
color
,
con
,
convince
,
debilitate
,
dispose
,
do in
,
do up
,
drain
,
draw over
,
enervate
,
erode
,
exhaust
,
fag
,
fag out
,
fatigue
,
flag
,
fray
,
frazzle
,
fret
,
gain
,
gain over
,
harass
,
hook
,
hook in
,
incline
,
induce
,
influence
,
jade
,
knock out
,
knock up
,
lead
,
move
,
outtalk
,
overfatigue
,
overstrain
,
overtire
,
overweary
,
persuade
,
poop
,
poop out
,
predispose
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
prompt
,
prostrate
,
rub off
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
soften up
,
sway
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
tatter
,
tinge
,
tire
,
tire out
,
tire to death
,
tone
,
tucker
,
use up
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
wear off
,
wear on
,
wear out
,
wear ragged
,
weary
,
weather
,
weigh with
,
wilt
,
win
,
win over
,
wind
,
work
tell off
collapse
reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off"
related words >
bawl out
,
berate
,
call down
,
chew out
,
come down on
,
denounce
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
jaw
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
rail
,
revile
,
speak to
,
talk to
,
tongue-lash
,
trim
,
upbraid
,
vituperate
talk down
collapse
direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio; "the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill"
belittle through talk
speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child; "He talks down to her"
related words >
alight
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
filibuster
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
outlast
,
outspeak
,
outtalk
,
overshoot
,
pancake
,
settle down
,
touch down
,
upwind
lesson
collapse
a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today"
a unit of instruction; "he took driving lessons"
related words >
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
alarm
,
assignment
,
call down
,
castigation
,
caution
,
caveat
,
chalk talk
,
chastening
,
chastisement
,
chide
,
chiding
,
class
,
correction
,
deterrent
,
deterrent example
,
discouragement
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
drill
,
example
,
exemplar
,
exercise
,
exposition
,
final notice
,
final warning
,
guide
,
harangue
,
hint
,
homework
,
homily
,
instruction
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
maxim
,
message
,
model
,
monition
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
notice
,
notification
,
object lesson
,
objurgation
,
paragon
,
practice
,
preachment
,
precept
,
punishment
,
rating
,
reading
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
reprehension
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprobation
,
reproof
,
reproval
,
schooling
,
scolding
,
sermon
,
session
,
set task
,
skull session
,
spanking
,
study
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
threat
,
tick off
,
tip-off
,
tutoring
,
ultimatum
,
upbraiding
,
verbum sapienti
,
warning
,
warning piece
soft soap
collapse
a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
related words >
Pecksniffery
,
Tartuffery
,
Tartuffism
,
adulation
,
advocate
,
allurement
,
be hypocritical
,
blandish
,
blandishment
,
blandness
,
blarney
,
bunkum
,
butter
,
butter up
,
cajole
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
call on
,
call upon
,
cant
,
coax
,
coaxing
,
compliment
,
conning
,
empty gesture
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
exhort
,
exhortation
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
false piety
,
fawning
,
flattery
,
fulsomeness
,
get around
,
give lip service
,
give mouth honor
,
glibness
,
grease
,
high-pressure
,
honey
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hortation
,
hypocrisy
,
hypocriticalness
,
importune
,
incense
,
inducement
,
insist
,
insist upon
,
jawbone
,
jawboning
,
jolly
,
kid along
,
lay it on
,
lip service
,
lobby
,
lobbying
,
mealymouthedness
,
mouth
,
mouthing
,
mummery
,
nag
,
oil
,
oiliness
,
ostentatious devotion
,
overdo it
,
palaver
,
persuasion
,
pharisaism
,
play the hypocrite
,
play up to
,
plead with
,
praise
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
press
,
pressure
,
pretty lies
,
push
,
recommend
,
reek of piety
,
religiosity
,
render lip service
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
sanctimoniousness
,
sanctimony
,
selling
,
smoothness
,
smugness
,
snivel
,
snow job
,
snuffle
,
snuffling
,
soap
,
soft words
,
soften up
,
solicitation
,
string along
,
stroke
,
suasion
,
suaveness
,
suavity
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sweet-talk
,
sycophancy
,
tokenism
,
unctuousness
,
urge
,
wheedle
,
wheedling
,
work on
,
working on
grandiloquence
collapse
related words >
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
command of language
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expression of ideas
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
form of speech
,
grace of expression
,
hard word
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
jawbreaker
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
long word
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
orotundity
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
polysyllable
,
pomposity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
rhetoric
,
self-importance
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sesquipedalian
,
strain
,
stretching
,
stuffiness
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
touting
,
travesty
,
trick
,
turgidity
,
vein
,
way
enlistment
collapse
the act of enlisting (as in a military service)
a period of time spent in military service
related words >
acceptance
,
admission
,
admittance
,
allurement
,
baptism
,
blandishment
,
booking
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
call
,
call-up
,
cataloging
,
chronicling
,
coaxing
,
compulsory military service
,
conning
,
conscription
,
continuous tenure
,
draft
,
draft call
,
drafting
,
engagement
,
enrollment
,
entering
,
entry
,
exhortation
,
hitch
,
hortation
,
immission
,
impanelment
,
impressment
,
inauguration
,
indexing
,
inducement
,
induction
,
initiation
,
inscribing
,
inscription
,
insertion
,
installation
,
instatement
,
intromission
,
inventorying
,
investiture
,
jawboning
,
levy
,
listing
,
lobbying
,
logging
,
matriculation
,
mobilization
,
muster
,
ordination
,
persuasion
,
posting
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
press
,
prison term
,
record keeping
,
recordation
,
recording
,
recruiting
,
recruitment
,
register
,
registration
,
registry
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
selective service
,
selling
,
snow job
,
soft soap
,
solicitation
,
stretch
,
suasion
,
summons
,
sweet talk
,
tabulation
,
tenure
,
term
,
time
,
tour
,
wheedling
,
working on
dissuade
collapse
turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
related words >
admonish
,
advise
,
caution
,
counsel
,
cry out against
,
daunt
,
derail
,
deter
,
discourage
,
divert
,
exhort
,
expostulate
,
frighten off
,
intimidate
,
kid out of
,
prick
,
remonstrate
,
talk out of
,
throw off
,
unpersuade
,
urge
,
warn
spare time
collapse
time available for hobbies and other activities that you enjoy
related words >
casual
,
convenience
,
ease
,
extra
,
free time
,
freedom
,
goof-off time
,
idle hours
,
incidental
,
leisure
,
occasional
,
odd
,
odd moments
,
off
,
out-of-the-way
,
part-time
,
repose
,
rest
,
retirement
,
semiretirement
,
side
,
spare
,
time
,
time to kill
,
time to spare
big talker
collapse
related words >
agreeable rattle
,
babbler
,
blab
,
blabberer
,
blatherer
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
gabber
,
gabbler
,
gasbag
,
gibble-gabbler
,
great talker
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
jabberer
,
jay
,
magpie
,
moulin a paroles
,
patterer
,
prater
,
prattler
,
rattle
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
word-slinger
consider
collapse
regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family"
take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
related words >
account
,
account as
,
adjudge
,
adjudicate
,
admit
,
admit exceptions
,
air
,
allow
,
allow for
,
analyze
,
assume
,
be abstracted
,
be afraid
,
be concerned
,
be judicious
,
be thoughtful of
,
bear in mind
,
believe
,
brood
,
canvass
,
care
,
chew over
,
chew the cud
,
cogitate
,
comment upon
,
concede
,
conceive
,
conclude
,
consider the circumstances
,
consider the source
,
contemplate
,
controvert
,
count
,
credit
,
daresay
,
deal with
,
debate
,
deduce
,
deem
,
deliberate
,
deliberate over
,
deliberate upon
,
digest
,
discount
,
discourse about
,
discuss
,
disregard
,
divine
,
dream
,
entertain thoughts of
,
envisage
,
envision
,
esteem
,
estimate
,
examine
,
exchange views
,
excogitate
,
exercise judgment
,
expect
,
express an opinion
,
eye
,
fancy
,
feel
,
form an opinion
,
gather
,
gauge
,
go into
,
grant
,
guess
,
handle
,
harbor an idea
,
have a hunch
,
have an idea
,
have an impression
,
have an inkling
,
have in mind
,
have regard for
,
have the idea
,
have thoughts about
,
heed
,
hold
,
hold an idea
,
hold as
,
hold the thought
,
imagine
,
infer
,
inspect
,
introspect
,
investigate
,
judge
,
keep in mind
,
knock around
,
let
,
let be
,
lift temporarily
,
look at
,
look upon
,
look upon as
,
maintain
,
make allowance for
,
mark
,
meditate
,
mind
,
mull over
,
muse
,
new
,
note
,
observe
,
opine
,
pass under review
,
pay attention
,
perpend
,
pine
,
play around with
,
play with
,
ponder
,
prefigure
,
presume
,
presuppose
,
presurmise
,
provide for
,
provisionally accept
,
rap
,
rate
,
reason
,
reason about
,
reason the point
,
reck
,
reckon
,
reckon with
,
reflect
,
reflect upon
,
regard
,
relax
,
relax the condition
,
repute
,
respect
,
review
,
revolve
,
rule
,
ruminate
,
ruminate over
,
say
,
scan
,
scrutinize
,
see
,
sense
,
set aside
,
set down as
,
sift
,
speculate
,
study
,
suppose
,
surmise
,
suspect
,
take
,
take account of
,
take an interest
,
take for
,
take for granted
,
take into account
,
take into consideration
,
take it
,
take to be
,
take up
,
talk
,
talk about
,
talk of
,
talk over
,
think
,
think about
,
think of
,
think over
,
thresh out
,
toy with
,
treat
,
trow
,
understand
,
ventilate
,
view
,
view as
,
waive
,
ween
,
weigh
discourse
collapse
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
related words >
accents
,
act
,
address
,
air
,
amplify
,
analyze
,
argue
,
article
,
assignment
,
bandy words
,
canvass
,
causerie
,
chalk talk
,
chatter
,
chew the fat
,
chew the rag
,
chin
,
colloque
,
colloquial discourse
,
colloquize
,
colloquy
,
comment
,
comment upon
,
commentate
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
communicate with
,
communication
,
communion
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
consider
,
controvert
,
conversation
,
converse
,
converse with
,
conversing
,
criticize
,
deal with
,
debate
,
deduction
,
deductive reasoning
,
deliberate
,
deliberate upon
,
deliver an address
,
demonstration
,
descant
,
develop
,
dilate
,
discourse about
,
discourse of reason
,
discourse with
,
discursive reason
,
discuss
,
discussion
,
dispute
,
disquisition
,
dissert
,
dissertate
,
dissertation
,
do
,
elaborate
,
elocution
,
enact
,
enlarge
,
essay
,
etude
,
examination
,
examine
,
exchange
,
exchange views
,
excursus
,
exercise
,
expand
,
expatiate
,
explain
,
exposit
,
exposition
,
expound
,
feature
,
first approach
,
gab
,
give a talk
,
give-and-take
,
go into
,
handle
,
harangue
,
hold forth
,
homework
,
homily
,
impersonate
,
induction
,
inductive reasoning
,
inquire into
,
instruction
,
intercourse
,
interlocution
,
introductory study
,
investigate
,
knock around
,
language
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
logical thought
,
lucubration
,
memoir
,
monograph
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
moralize
,
morceau
,
note
,
object lesson
,
oral communication
,
orate
,
outline
,
palaver
,
pandect
,
paper
,
paragraph
,
parole
,
pass under review
,
perform
,
perorate
,
personate
,
philosophy
,
piece
,
platform
,
play
,
playact
,
point a moral
,
prattle
,
preach
,
preachification
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
prelection
,
preliminary study
,
prolegomenon
,
proof
,
rap
,
rapping
,
ratiocination
,
rationalism
,
rationality
,
rationalization
,
rationalizing
,
read a lesson
,
reason
,
reason about
,
reason the point
,
reasonableness
,
reasoning
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religious discourse
,
remark
,
remark upon
,
research paper
,
review
,
rhetoric
,
screed
,
sermon
,
sermonette
,
sermonize
,
set task
,
shoot the breeze
,
sift
,
sketch
,
skull session
,
soapbox
,
sophistry
,
speak
,
speak with
,
speaking
,
special article
,
specious reasoning
,
speech
,
speechify
,
study
,
stump
,
survey
,
sweet reason
,
take counsel with
,
take the floor
,
take the stump
,
take up
,
talk
,
talk about
,
talk of
,
talk over
,
talk together
,
talking
,
task
,
teaching
,
term paper
,
theme
,
thesis
,
thresh out
,
touch upon
,
tract
,
tractate
,
travelogue
,
treat
,
treat of
,
treatise
,
treatment
,
utterance
,
ventilate
,
verbal intercourse
,
verbalization
,
visit with
,
voice
,
words
,
write up
,
yakkety-yak
,
yakking
wangle
collapse
an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
related words >
angle
,
argue into
,
arouse
,
brew
,
bring forth
,
bring out
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to light
,
bring to reason
,
cabal
,
call forth
,
call out
,
call up
,
captivate
,
charm
,
collude
,
complot
,
con
,
concoct
,
connive
,
conspire
,
contrive
,
convince
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
deduce
,
derive
,
drag out
,
draw forth
,
draw out
,
draw over
,
educe
,
elicit
,
engineer
,
evoke
,
finagle
,
finesse
,
frame
,
frame up
,
gain
,
gain over
,
gerrymander
,
get from
,
get out of
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
hook
,
hook in
,
induce
,
intrigue
,
jockey
,
lay a plot
,
machinate
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
obtain
,
operate
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
play games
,
plot
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
procure
,
pull strings
,
rig
,
rouse
,
scheme
,
secure
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
stimulate
,
summon forth
,
summon up
,
sway
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
wangle into
,
wangle out of
,
wear down
,
win
,
win over
,
winkle out
,
worm out
,
worm out of
powwow
collapse
a council of or with Native Americans
hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting
related words >
advise
,
advise with
,
audience
,
bargain
,
bargaining
,
bargaining session
,
call in
,
collogue
,
compare notes
,
conclave
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
confabulation
,
confer
,
confer with
,
conference
,
confrontation
,
congress
,
constitutional convention
,
consult
,
consult with
,
consultation
,
convention
,
council
,
council fire
,
council of war
,
counsel
,
county convention
,
deliberate
,
discuss
,
discuss with
,
discussion
,
exchange observations
,
exchange of views
,
exchange views
,
eyeball-to-eyeball encounter
,
have conversations
,
high-level talk
,
hold conference
,
huddle
,
interchange of views
,
interview
,
meeting
,
national convention
,
negotiate
,
negotiations
,
news conference
,
nominating convention
,
palaver
,
parley
,
political convention
,
pourparler
,
preliminary convention
,
press conference
,
put heads together
,
quadrennial circus
,
reason with
,
refer to
,
seance
,
session
,
sit down together
,
sit down with
,
sitting
,
state convention
,
summit
,
summit conference
,
summitry
,
take counsel
,
take up with
,
talk over
,
treat
prattler
collapse
someone who speaks in a childish way
related words >
agreeable rattle
,
babbler
,
big talker
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blabberer
,
blabbermouth
,
blatherer
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
gabber
,
gabbler
,
gasbag
,
gibble-gabbler
,
great talker
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
jabberer
,
jay
,
magpie
,
moulin a paroles
,
patterer
,
prater
,
rattle
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
word-slinger
jabberer
collapse
related words >
agreeable rattle
,
babbler
,
big talker
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blabberer
,
blabbermouth
,
blatherer
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
gabber
,
gabbler
,
gasbag
,
gibble-gabbler
,
great talker
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
jay
,
magpie
,
moulin a paroles
,
patterer
,
prater
,
prattler
,
rattle
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
word-slinger
stretch of the imagination
collapse
related words >
apparition
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
chimera
,
delirium
,
eidolon
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figment
,
hallucination
,
idle fancy
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
myth
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
romance
,
sick fancy
,
thick-coming fancies
,
trip
,
vapor
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
take aside
collapse
related words >
accost
,
address
,
apostrophize
,
appeal to
,
approach
,
bespeak
,
breathe
,
buttonhole
,
call to
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
invoke
,
mention privately
,
salute
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
speak to
,
talk to
,
tell confidentially
,
whisper
dress down
collapse
put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression
related words >
call down
,
come down on
,
flax
,
give a dressing-down
,
give it to
,
hide
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
larrup
,
lather
,
leather
,
lick
,
paddle
,
speak to
,
talk to
,
tan
,
tell off
,
trim
,
wallop
,
welt
,
whale
stagnate
collapse
cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries"
cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters"
stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy"
related words >
be a sideliner
,
be still
,
coast
,
constipate
,
decay
,
decline
,
decompose
,
degenerate
,
delay
,
deteriorate
,
do nothing
,
drift
,
fust
,
go to pot
,
go to seed
,
hang fire
,
hibernate
,
idle
,
just be
,
languish
,
lie dormant
,
merely exist
,
moulder
,
not budge
,
not stir
,
pass the time
,
rest
,
rot
,
rust
,
sit back
,
sit it out
,
sleep
,
slumber
,
smolder
,
spoil
,
stifle
,
trammel
,
vegetate
,
wait and see
,
watch and wait
pep rally
collapse
a rally (especially of students) before a game
related words >
agitation
,
arousal
,
exasperation
,
excitation
,
excitement
,
firing
,
fomentation
,
incitation
,
incitement
,
inflammation
,
instigation
,
irritation
,
pep talk
,
provocation
,
rabble-rousing
,
stimulation
,
stirring
,
stirring-up
flatulence
collapse
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
related words >
Barnumism
,
aeriness
,
affectation
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
convolution
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
ethereality
,
fart
,
flashiness
,
flatulency
,
flatuosity
,
flatus
,
fluidity
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gas
,
gaseity
,
gaseous state
,
gaseousness
,
gassiness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
high-flown diction
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
intumescence
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
meteorism
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
puff
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
stiltedness
,
stretching
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
vapor pressure
,
vaporiness
,
vaporousness
,
wind
,
windiness
selling
collapse
the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
related words >
accouterment
,
allurement
,
armament
,
blandishment
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
catering
,
chandlery
,
coaxing
,
conning
,
consumer preference study
,
consumer research
,
consumer survey
,
direct-mail selling
,
endowment
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
equipment
,
exhortation
,
finding
,
fitting out
,
furnishing
,
furnishment
,
hard sell
,
hawking
,
high-pressure salesmanship
,
hortation
,
huckstering
,
inducement
,
investment
,
jawboning
,
jobbing
,
lobbying
,
logistics
,
low-pressure salesmanship
,
mail-order selling
,
market
,
market research
,
marketing
,
marketing research
,
merchandising
,
outfitting
,
peddling
,
persuasion
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
preparation
,
procurement
,
promotion
,
providing
,
provision
,
provisioning
,
purveyance
,
reinforcement
,
replenishment
,
resupply
,
retail
,
retailing
,
sales
,
sales campaign
,
sales promotion
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
sellout
,
snow job
,
soft sell
,
soft soap
,
solicitation
,
suasion
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subvention
,
supply
,
supplying
,
sweet talk
,
victualing
,
wheedling
,
wholesale
,
wholesaling
,
working on
out of commission
collapse
related words >
at a standstill
,
at anchor
,
broken
,
dead-still
,
fixed
,
haywire
,
hors de combat
,
idle
,
immobile
,
immotive
,
in condition
,
in disrepair
,
in order
,
in repair
,
inoperative
,
motionless
,
moveless
,
obsolete
,
off the field
,
on the blink
,
on the fritz
,
out of condition
,
out of gear
,
out of joint
,
out of kelter
,
out of kilter
,
out of order
,
out of repair
,
out of tune
,
out of whack
,
riding at anchor
,
static
,
stationary
,
statuelike
,
still
,
stock-still
,
unemployed
,
unmoved
,
unmoving
tokenism
collapse
related words >
Pecksniffery
,
Tartuffery
,
Tartuffism
,
cant
,
empty gesture
,
false piety
,
hypocrisy
,
hypocriticalness
,
lip service
,
mealymouthedness
,
mouthing
,
mummery
,
oiliness
,
ostentatious devotion
,
pharisaism
,
religiosity
,
sanctimoniousness
,
sanctimony
,
snuffling
,
soft soap
,
sweet talk
,
unctuousness
hyperbole
collapse
extravagant exaggeration
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
boundlessness
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
coloring
,
deformation
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
expansion
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
garbling
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbolism
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
litotes
,
magnification
,
miscoloring
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overkill
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overstatement
,
perversion
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
radicalism
,
sensationalism
,
slanting
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
traffic with
collapse
related words >
be in connection
,
be in contact
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
converse
,
deal with
,
do business with
,
have dealings with
,
have intercourse
,
have truck with
,
hold communication
,
interchange
,
intercommunicate
,
patronize
,
shop at
,
speak
,
talk
,
trade at
,
trade with
,
transact business with
stretching
collapse
act of expanding by lengthening or widening
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
breaking point
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
doziness
,
dropsy
,
drowsiness
,
edema
,
elongation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extension
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
extreme tension
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
gassiness
,
grandiloquence
,
heaviness
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
languor
,
lengthening
,
lethargy
,
magnification
,
meteorism
,
oscitancy
,
oscitation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
pandiculation
,
prodigality
,
production
,
profuseness
,
prolongation
,
protraction
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
sensationalism
,
sleepiness
,
snapping point
,
somnolence
,
somnolency
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stringing out
,
superlative
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tension
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
windiness
,
yawning
overkill
collapse
any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
related words >
aggrandizement
,
aggravated assault
,
aggression
,
amphibious attack
,
amplification
,
armed assault
,
assailing
,
assailment
,
assault
,
attack
,
ballyhoo
,
banzai attack
,
big talk
,
blitz
,
blitzkrieg
,
blowing up
,
breakthrough
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
charge
,
counterattack
,
counteroffensive
,
coup de main
,
crippling attack
,
dead set at
,
descent on
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
diversion
,
diversionary attack
,
drive
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
flank attack
,
frontal attack
,
gas attack
,
grandiloquence
,
head-on attack
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
infiltration
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
lightning attack
,
lightning war
,
magnification
,
mass attack
,
megadeath
,
mugging
,
offense
,
offensive
,
onset
,
onslaught
,
overabundance
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overflow
,
overmuch
,
overplus
,
overstatement
,
panzer warfare
,
plethora
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
push
,
run against
,
run at
,
rush
,
sally
,
sensationalism
,
shock tactics
,
sortie
,
stretching
,
strike
,
superfluity
,
superlative
,
surfeit
,
surplus
,
surplusage
,
tall talk
,
touting
,
travesty
,
unprovoked assault
banter
collapse
light teasing repartee
related words >
backchat
,
badinage
,
beard
,
blandish
,
blarney
,
booing
,
brave
,
buffoonery
,
cajole
,
catcalling
,
chaff
,
chaffing
,
challenge
,
chitchat
,
clownishness
,
con
,
dare
,
defy
,
deride
,
derision
,
exchange
,
face
,
fleering
,
flippancy
,
fool
,
foolery
,
fooling
,
front
,
fun
,
give-and-take
,
gossip
,
gossipry
,
grinning
,
guy
,
harlequinade
,
haze
,
hissing
,
hooting
,
horseplay
,
jape
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jesting
,
jive
,
joke
,
joking
,
jolly
,
josh
,
joshing
,
kid
,
kidding
,
leering
,
levity
,
make fun of
,
make merry with
,
mock
,
mockery
,
monkeyshines
,
needle
,
outface
,
panning
,
persiflage
,
pleasantry
,
poke fun at
,
put on
,
quiz
,
rag
,
ragging
,
raillery
,
rally
,
rallying
,
razz
,
razzing
,
repartee
,
rib
,
ribbing
,
ride
,
ridicule
,
roast
,
roasting
,
satirize
,
scoffing
,
shenanigans
,
small talk
,
smart-aleckiness
,
smartness
,
smirking
,
sneering
,
snickering
,
sniggering
,
snorting
,
soft-soap
,
sweet-talk
,
taunt
,
taunting
,
tease
,
teasing
,
tomfoolery
,
twit
,
twitting
,
venture
,
wheedle
moocher
collapse
someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
related words >
beggar
,
bum
,
bummer
,
cadger
,
caller
,
company
,
coupon clippers
,
drone
,
freeloader
,
frequenter
,
gate-crasher
,
guest
,
habitue
,
hobo
,
idle rich
,
leisure class
,
loafer
,
lounge lizard
,
lumpen proletariat
,
mendicant
,
mendicant friar
,
mendicant order
,
nonworker
,
panhandler
,
parasite
,
rentiers
,
schnorrer
,
scrounger
,
spiv
,
sponger
,
the unemployable
,
the unemployed
,
tramp
,
uninvited guest
,
visitant
,
visitor
wording
collapse
the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
locution
,
mode
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
style
,
talk
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
dribble away
collapse
related words >
ablate
,
atrophy
,
blow
,
blunder away
,
consume
,
consume away
,
dally away
,
decrease
,
deplete
,
depreciate
,
diddle away
,
dissipate
,
drain
,
drivel
,
drivel away
,
emaciate
,
erode
,
fool away
,
fritter
,
fritter away
,
idle away
,
muddle away
,
pine away
,
piss away
,
potter away
,
run to seed
,
run to waste
,
shrink
,
squander
,
throw
,
trifle away
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear
,
wear away
,
while away
,
wither away
colloquy
collapse
formal conversation
a conversation especially a formal one
related words >
chat
,
colloquial discourse
,
colloquium
,
communication
,
communion
,
confabulation
,
conversation
,
converse
,
conversing
,
dialogue
,
discourse
,
exchange
,
give-and-take
,
intercourse
,
interlocution
,
palaver
,
parley
,
rap session
,
rapping
,
seminar
,
talk
,
verbal intercourse
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