Related Words:
- rock
collapse - pitching dangerously to one side
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable; "he was her rock during the crisis"; "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"--Gospel According to Matthew
- United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
- move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
- cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently" related words >
- Gibraltar,
- Irish confetti,
- acid rock,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- affect,
- agitate,
- amaze,
- appease,
- astonish,
- astound,
- avant-garde jazz,
- ballroom music,
- bankrupt,
- bebop,
- bedrock,
- blunder,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bola,
- bolt,
- bone,
- boogie-woogie,
- boomerang,
- bop,
- boulder,
- brick,
- brickbat,
- broken-down,
- calm,
- calm down,
- careen,
- career,
- cement,
- champion,
- coggle,
- come home to,
- compose,
- concert,
- concrete,
- cool,
- countermissile,
- country rock,
- cradle,
- crag,
- dance music,
- dances,
- dangle,
- daze,
- defender,
- destitute,
- destroyed,
- diamond,
- discombobulate,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- dramatico-musical,
- dulcify,
- dumbfound,
- ease,
- electrify,
- escarpment,
- even out,
- falter,
- finished,
- flint,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- folk rock,
- foundation,
- fuss,
- gentle,
- granite,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- hard rock,
- heart of oak,
- heave,
- hit,
- hit the mark,
- hobbyhorse,
- horse,
- hot jazz,
- hush,
- impress,
- impress forcibly,
- in ruins,
- indigent,
- instrumental,
- iron,
- jar,
- jazz,
- jazzy,
- jive,
- jolt,
- labor,
- librate,
- lion,
- lithic,
- lull,
- lurch,
- mainstream jazz,
- make an impression,
- make heavy weather,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- missile,
- mollify,
- musical suite,
- nails,
- nutate,
- oak,
- on ice,
- on the rocks,
- orchestral,
- oscillate,
- outcrop,
- outcropping,
- overwhelm,
- ox,
- pacify,
- patron,
- patroness,
- pendulate,
- penniless,
- perturb,
- petrified,
- petrogenic,
- pillar,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- pitch and toss,
- plunge,
- pound,
- pour balm into,
- poverty-stricken,
- projectile,
- protector,
- protectress,
- quell,
- quiet,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- rattle,
- rear,
- reel,
- resonate,
- rest,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- rock to sleep,
- rock-and-roll,
- rocket,
- roll,
- ruffle,
- ruined,
- safekeeper,
- scarp,
- scend,
- seethe,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shock,
- sink in,
- slaty,
- smite,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- soothe,
- stabilize,
- stagger,
- steady,
- steel,
- still,
- stir,
- stone,
- strike,
- strike hard,
- strike home,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- subdue,
- suite,
- suite of dances,
- surprise,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- swinging,
- symphonic,
- syncopated,
- syncopated music,
- syncopation,
- tell,
- the new music,
- thrash about,
- throw,
- throw stick,
- throwing-stick,
- tor,
- torpedo,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- tower,
- tower of strength,
- tranquilize,
- traumatize,
- trouble,
- tumble,
- unnerve,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- vacillate,
- vibrate,
- volutation,
- waddy,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wave,
- waver,
- welter,
- wobble,
- yaw
- census
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- a periodic count of the population
- conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest" related words >
- account,
- accounting,
- accounts,
- agenda,
- assemblage,
- assembly,
- beadroll,
- body count,
- cadastre,
- calendar,
- call-up,
- canvass,
- capitulation,
- census report,
- checklist,
- checkroll,
- code,
- collection,
- colligation,
- collocation,
- combination,
- comparison,
- composition,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congregation,
- constituents,
- content,
- contents,
- convergence,
- corralling,
- count,
- counting,
- dactylonomy,
- data-gathering,
- digest,
- divisions,
- docket,
- dramatis personae,
- elements,
- enumeration,
- foliation,
- gathering,
- guts,
- head count,
- honor roll,
- index,
- ingathering,
- ingredients,
- innards,
- insides,
- inventory,
- inventorying,
- items,
- junction,
- jury list,
- jury panel,
- juxtaposition,
- lineup,
- list,
- measurement,
- mobilization,
- muster,
- muster roll,
- nose count,
- numbering,
- numeration,
- order of business,
- pagination,
- part,
- parts,
- poll,
- program,
- property roll,
- quantification,
- quantization,
- questionnaire,
- recapitulation,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recounting,
- rehearsal,
- repertory,
- returns,
- rodeo,
- roll,
- roll call,
- roster,
- rota,
- roundup,
- scroll,
- statement,
- summary,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- survey,
- table,
- table of organization,
- tallying,
- tax roll,
- telling,
- whole
- spiccato
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- bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accidental,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- breve,
- brillante,
- cantando,
- capriccioso,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- crescendo,
- crotchet,
- decrescendo,
- demilegato,
- demisemiquaver,
- diminuendo,
- dolce,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- execution,
- expression,
- fingering,
- flat,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- glissando,
- half note,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- intonation,
- lamentabile,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- marcando,
- mezzo staccato,
- minim,
- morendo,
- music-making,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- parlando,
- patent note,
- performance,
- pianism,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- rallentando,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repercussion,
- report,
- responding note,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- rubato,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- slur,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- touch,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- triplet,
- whole note
- minim
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- a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters related words >
- accidental,
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- breve,
- breve rest,
- crotchet,
- crumb,
- dab,
- demisemiquaver,
- dole,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- dot,
- double whole note,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- eighth note,
- eighth rest,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- farthing,
- flat,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- half note,
- half rest,
- handful,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- iota,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- lota,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- patent note,
- pause,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- quarter note,
- quarter rest,
- quaver,
- report,
- responding note,
- rest,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixteenth rest,
- sixty-fourth note,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spiccato,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thimbleful,
- thirty-second note,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- tone,
- trifling amount,
- triplet,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit,
- whole note
- response
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- a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
- a result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa" related words >
- Agnus Dei,
- Benedicite,
- ESP,
- Gloria,
- Gloria Patri,
- Gloria in Excelsis,
- Introit,
- Magnificat,
- Miserere,
- Nunc Dimittis,
- Te Deum,
- Trisagion,
- Vedic hymn,
- acknowledgment,
- action and reaction,
- affect,
- affection,
- alleluia,
- anacrusis,
- answer,
- answering,
- anthem,
- antiphon,
- antiphonal chanting,
- antiphony,
- argument,
- automatic reaction,
- autonomic reaction,
- awareness,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- backlash,
- backwash,
- bass passage,
- bounceback,
- bourdon,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- canticle,
- caring,
- chant,
- chorale,
- chord,
- chorus,
- clout,
- coda,
- comeback,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- concern,
- congress,
- connection,
- consciousness,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- counterstatement,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- defense,
- demurrer,
- denial,
- development,
- division,
- doxology,
- echo,
- effect,
- emotion,
- emotional charge,
- emotional shade,
- empathy,
- evasive reply,
- exception,
- exchange,
- experience,
- exposition,
- feedback,
- feeling,
- feeling tone,
- fellow feeling,
- figure,
- folderol,
- force,
- foreboding,
- gut reaction,
- hallelujah,
- harmonic close,
- heartthrob,
- hosanna,
- hymn,
- hymn of praise,
- hymnody,
- hymnography,
- hymnology,
- identification,
- impact,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- interplay,
- introductory phrase,
- involvement,
- laud,
- linguistic intercourse,
- mantra,
- mark,
- measure,
- message,
- motet,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- objection,
- offertory,
- offertory sentence,
- ornament,
- paean,
- part,
- passage,
- passion,
- pathos,
- percept,
- perception,
- period,
- phrase,
- plea,
- pleading,
- predictable response,
- presentiment,
- print,
- profound sense,
- psalm,
- psalmody,
- reaction,
- ready reply,
- rebuttal,
- receipt,
- recoil,
- reflection,
- reflex,
- reflex action,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- refrain,
- refutation,
- rejoinder,
- relating,
- repartee,
- repercussion,
- replication,
- reply,
- report,
- repost,
- rescript,
- rescription,
- resolution,
- respond,
- respondence,
- response to stimuli,
- responsion,
- responsiveness,
- responsory,
- responsory report,
- retort,
- retroaction,
- return,
- reverberation,
- revulsion,
- riposte,
- rise,
- ritornello,
- section,
- sensation,
- sense,
- sense impression,
- sense perception,
- sensory experience,
- sentiment,
- sharing,
- short answer,
- snappy comeback,
- social intercourse,
- speaking,
- special demurrer,
- special pleading,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- stanza,
- statement,
- statement of defense,
- strain,
- sympathetic chord,
- sympathetic response,
- sympathy,
- tailpiece,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- two-way communication,
- undercurrent,
- unthinking response,
- variation,
- verse,
- versicle,
- vibes,
- vibrations,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- yes-and-no answer
- infuse
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- introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"
- undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing" related words >
- animate,
- bathe,
- beat into,
- besprinkle,
- brainwash,
- breathe,
- brew,
- catechize,
- colliquate,
- color,
- concentrate,
- condition,
- cut,
- decoagulate,
- decoct,
- deliquesce,
- diffuse,
- dissolve,
- distill,
- douche,
- dredge,
- drench,
- drouk,
- dye,
- ease in,
- embue,
- enliven,
- entincture,
- essentialize,
- exhilarate,
- express,
- fire,
- flavor,
- fluidify,
- fluidize,
- flush,
- flux,
- fuse,
- hold in solution,
- imbrue,
- imbue,
- implant,
- impregnate,
- impress,
- inculcate,
- indoctrinate,
- infect,
- infiltrate,
- infix,
- inform,
- ingrain,
- inject,
- inoculate,
- insert,
- insinuate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- instill,
- interject,
- interlard,
- intersow,
- intersperse,
- intersprinkle,
- introduce,
- intromit,
- invest,
- lave,
- leach,
- leaven,
- liquefy,
- liquesce,
- liquidize,
- lixiviate,
- macerate,
- melt,
- melt down,
- penetrate,
- percolate,
- perfuse,
- permeate,
- pervade,
- pop in,
- press out,
- program,
- put in,
- refine,
- render,
- rinse,
- run,
- saturate,
- season,
- seethe,
- set in,
- slip in,
- soak,
- sodden,
- solubilize,
- solve,
- sop,
- souse,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- steep,
- stick in,
- suffuse,
- temper,
- thaw,
- thin,
- throw in,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- transfuse,
- tuck in,
- unclot,
- wash,
- waterlog,
- whip in,
- wring,
- wring out
- enterprise
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- a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"
- readiness to embark on bold new ventures
- an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader" related words >
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- activities,
- activity,
- adventure,
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- affair,
- affairs,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- aktiebolag,
- ambition,
- ambitiousness,
- approach,
- aristeia,
- arrangement,
- attack,
- attempt,
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- bag,
- balls,
- bang,
- blow,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- body corporate,
- bold stroke,
- boldness,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- business,
- business establishment,
- calculation,
- campaign,
- cartel,
- cause,
- chamber of commerce,
- charting,
- combine,
- commerce,
- commercial enterprise,
- commitment,
- compagnie,
- company,
- conception,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- contract,
- contrivance,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- coup,
- courage,
- daring,
- dash,
- deal,
- dealings,
- deed,
- derring-do,
- design,
- determination,
- device,
- disposition,
- diversified corporation,
- doing,
- doings,
- drive,
- dynamism,
- eagerness,
- effort,
- employ,
- employment,
- emprise,
- endeavor,
- energy,
- engagement,
- enterprisingness,
- enthusiasm,
- envisagement,
- establishment,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- figuring,
- fire,
- firm,
- foolhardiness,
- force,
- forcefulness,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- function,
- game,
- gest,
- get-up-and-get,
- get-up-and-go,
- getup,
- ginger,
- go,
- go-ahead,
- go-getting,
- go-to-itiveness,
- graphing,
- ground plan,
- guidelines,
- gumption,
- guts,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- heroic act,
- holding company,
- house,
- hustle,
- idea,
- industry,
- initiative,
- intention,
- interest,
- inventiveness,
- job,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- kick,
- labor,
- layout,
- lineup,
- long-range plan,
- lookout,
- maneuver,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- matter,
- measure,
- method,
- methodology,
- mettle,
- move,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- operating company,
- operation,
- operations research,
- organization,
- outfit,
- overboldness,
- overt act,
- partnership,
- passage,
- pep,
- pepper,
- performance,
- piss and vinegar,
- pizzazz,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- plunderbund,
- pool,
- poop,
- prearrangement,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- production,
- program,
- program of action,
- project,
- proposition,
- public utility,
- punch,
- purpose,
- purposefulness,
- pursuit,
- push,
- pushfulness,
- pushiness,
- pushingness,
- rationalization,
- res gestae,
- resolve,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- self-reliance,
- service,
- setup,
- snap,
- speculation,
- spirit,
- spunk,
- starch,
- step,
- stock company,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- striving,
- stroke,
- struggle,
- stunt,
- syndicate,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- task,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- thing,
- thing done,
- thrust,
- tour de force,
- trade association,
- transaction,
- trust,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- up-and-comingness,
- utility,
- venture,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness,
- verve,
- vigor,
- vim,
- way,
- work,
- working plan,
- works,
- zeal,
- zing,
- zip
- pronouncement
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- an authoritative declaration related words >
- Parthian shot,
- action,
- address,
- advertisement,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- appointment,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- award,
- brevet,
- broadcast,
- bull,
- bulletin board,
- circular,
- command,
- comment,
- communique,
- conclusion,
- condemnation,
- consideration,
- crack,
- creed,
- decision,
- declaration,
- decree,
- decree-law,
- decreement,
- decretal,
- decretum,
- deliverance,
- determination,
- diagnosis,
- dictum,
- diktat,
- doom,
- edict,
- edictum,
- encyclical,
- enunciation,
- exclamation,
- expression,
- fiat,
- finding,
- greeting,
- imperative,
- interjection,
- ipse dixit,
- judgement,
- law,
- manifesto,
- mention,
- note,
- notice,
- notification,
- observation,
- opinion,
- order,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- phrase,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- precedent,
- predicate,
- predication,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- prognosis,
- program,
- programma,
- promulgation,
- pronunciamento,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- public notice,
- publication,
- question,
- reflection,
- remark,
- report,
- rescript,
- resolution,
- rule,
- ruling,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- senatus consult,
- senatus consultum,
- sentence,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- subjoinder,
- thought,
- ukase,
- utterance,
- verdict,
- vouch,
- white book,
- white paper,
- word
- lyrical
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- suitable for or suggestive of singing related words >
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- Castalian,
- Homeric,
- Hudibrastic,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Theocritean,
- achingly sweet,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- alto,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- bardic,
- baritone,
- bass,
- bravura,
- bucolic,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- choral,
- choric,
- coloratura,
- didactic,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- dulcet,
- ebullient,
- eclogic,
- ecstatic,
- effusive,
- elegiac,
- emotional,
- encomiastic,
- enthusiastic,
- epic,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- exuberant,
- falsetto,
- fine-toned,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- heroic,
- honeyed,
- hymnal,
- idyllic,
- impassioned,
- liturgical,
- lyric,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- mock-heroic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- narrative,
- operatic,
- panegyrical,
- pastoral,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- psalmic,
- psalmodial,
- psalmodic,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic,
- rich,
- runic,
- sacred,
- sapphic,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- singing,
- skaldic,
- songful,
- songlike,
- sonorous,
- soprano,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- tenor,
- treble,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- vocal
- burlesque
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- a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
- relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater" related words >
- Atticism,
- Broadway,
- Thalia,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- ape,
- arlequinade,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black comedy,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- botch,
- broad,
- broad comedy,
- build up,
- burletta,
- camouflage,
- camp,
- caricatural,
- caricature,
- carnival,
- carry too far,
- circus,
- color,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- comical,
- copy,
- dark comedy,
- daub,
- derisive,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- doggerel,
- domestic comedy,
- drama,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- dummy,
- duplication,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- entertainment industry,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exode,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- facsimile,
- falsify,
- farce,
- farce comedy,
- farcical,
- garble,
- genteel comedy,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- harlequinade,
- hatchet job,
- heightening,
- high camp,
- hit off on,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- knockoff,
- lampoon,
- lay it on,
- legit,
- legitimate stage,
- light comedy,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- macaronic,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- malicious parody,
- mime,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mock-heroic,
- mock-up,
- mockery,
- model,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- nimble wit,
- off Broadway,
- off-off-Broadway,
- opera buffa,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- paraphrase,
- parodic,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- pile it on,
- playland,
- pleasantry,
- poison pen,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- raw comedy,
- ready wit,
- realistic comedy,
- repertory drama,
- replica,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- romantic comedy,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric,
- satirical,
- satirize,
- satyr play,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- sensationalism,
- sentimental comedy,
- sham,
- show biz,
- show business,
- situation comedy,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick comedy,
- slapstick humor,
- spoof,
- squib,
- stage world,
- stagedom,
- stageland,
- stock,
- strawhat,
- strawhat circuit,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- striptease,
- subtle wit,
- summer stock,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- the boards,
- the footlights,
- the scenes,
- the stage,
- the theater,
- theater world,
- theatromania,
- theatrophobia,
- tout,
- touting,
- tragicomedy,
- tragicomic,
- travesty,
- twist,
- understate,
- variety,
- vaudeville,
- version,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- logogram
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- a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- allegory,
- alphabet,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- arrowhead,
- art,
- blueprint,
- calembour,
- character,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- charactery,
- chart,
- choreography,
- cipher,
- conventional representation,
- conventional symbol,
- corruption,
- cuneiform,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demotic character,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- determinative,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- emblem,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exemplification,
- figuration,
- grammalogue,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- hiragana,
- iconography,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- jeu de mots,
- kana,
- katakana,
- letter,
- limning,
- logograph,
- logogriph,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- malapropism,
- map,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- musical notation,
- notation,
- ogham,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- phonetic,
- phonetic symbol,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- picturization,
- plan,
- play on words,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- projection,
- pun,
- punning,
- radical,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- rune,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- shorthand,
- spoonerism,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- tablature,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- type,
- wedge,
- word letter,
- wordplay,
- writing
- accord,
- accordance,
- accordant,
- according,
- alliteral,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- assonant,
- assonantal,
- attune,
- attuned,
- attunement,
- belabored,
- blended,
- blending,
- change ringing,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chink,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- cliche-ridden,
- clink,
- concentus,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concordant,
- consonance,
- consonancy,
- consonant,
- consort,
- diapason,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- donging,
- euphony,
- harmonic,
- harmonics,
- harmonious,
- harmonizing,
- harmony,
- harping,
- heavy harmony,
- homophonic,
- homophony,
- humdrum,
- in accord,
- in chorus,
- in concert,
- in concord,
- in sync,
- in tune,
- in unison,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jingling,
- jog-trot,
- knell,
- knelling,
- labored,
- monochord,
- monodic,
- monody,
- monophonic,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- musical,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- punning,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- ring,
- ringing,
- singsong,
- sounding,
- symphonic,
- symphonious,
- symphony,
- synchronism,
- synchronization,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- tedious,
- three-part harmony,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabular,
- tintinnabulary,
- tintinnabulous,
- toll,
- tolling,
- tune,
- tuned,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- unisonant,
- unisonous
- contrivance
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- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" related words >
- Charlie McCarthy,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- agent,
- anagnorisis,
- ancilla,
- angle,
- answer,
- apparatus,
- appliance,
- approach,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- arrangement,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- atmosphere,
- attack,
- authorship,
- background,
- beginning,
- blind,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- brainchild,
- cabal,
- calculation,
- catastrophe,
- characterization,
- charting,
- chicanery,
- coinage,
- collusion,
- color,
- complication,
- complicity,
- complot,
- conception,
- concoction,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- continuity,
- contraption,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- course of action,
- covin,
- craft,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- creature,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deep-laid plot,
- demarche,
- denouement,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- devising,
- disposition,
- dodge,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- effort,
- engineering,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- episode,
- expedient,
- fable,
- fabrication,
- fakement,
- falling action,
- feint,
- fetch,
- figuring,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- frame-up,
- gadget,
- gambit,
- game,
- generation,
- gimcrack,
- gimmick,
- gizmo,
- go-between,
- graphing,
- grift,
- ground plan,
- guidelines,
- hand tool,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hatching,
- idea,
- implement,
- improvisation,
- incident,
- instrument,
- intention,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- intrigue,
- invention,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- layout,
- lever,
- line,
- lineup,
- little game,
- local color,
- long-range plan,
- machination,
- makeshift,
- making do,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- method,
- methodology,
- midwife,
- minion,
- mintage,
- mood,
- motif,
- move,
- movement,
- mythos,
- operations research,
- organ,
- organization,
- origination,
- pawn,
- peripeteia,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- plaything,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- power tool,
- prearrangement,
- precision tool,
- procedure,
- program,
- program of action,
- puppet,
- racket,
- rationalization,
- recognition,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- rigging,
- rising action,
- ruse,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- secondary plot,
- servant,
- setup,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- slant,
- slave,
- sleight,
- solution,
- speed tool,
- step,
- stooge,
- stopgap,
- story,
- stratagem,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- subterfuge,
- switch,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactic,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- temporary expedient,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- tool,
- topic,
- toy,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- twist,
- underplot,
- utensil,
- vehicle,
- way,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- working hypothesis,
- working plan,
- working proposition
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