Related Words:
- smattering
collapse - a slight or superficial understanding of a subject related words >
- a little learning,
- amateurism,
- cast,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dash,
- dilettantism,
- dilettantship,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gleam,
- glimmering,
- glimpse,
- half-learning,
- handful,
- hint,
- idea,
- idling,
- imperfect knowledge,
- intimation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lick,
- loitering,
- look,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- scattering,
- scintilla,
- sciolism,
- semi-learning,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shallowness,
- sip,
- slight knowledge,
- smack,
- smatter,
- smattering of ignorance,
- smattering of knowledge,
- smell,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- sprinkling,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- superficiality,
- surface-scratching,
- suspicion,
- taste,
- thought,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tinkering,
- touch,
- toying,
- trace,
- trifling,
- vague notion
- 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
- monition
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- a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted related words >
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- advice,
- advising,
- advocacy,
- alarm,
- alerting,
- briefing,
- caution,
- cautioning,
- caveat,
- certiorari,
- citation,
- clue,
- consultation,
- council,
- counsel,
- cue,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- deterrent example,
- direction,
- example,
- exhortation,
- expostulation,
- final notice,
- final warning,
- forewarning,
- frightening off,
- garnishment,
- guidance,
- habeas corpus,
- hint,
- hortation,
- idea,
- instruction,
- intimidation,
- lesson,
- moral,
- notice,
- notification,
- object lesson,
- office,
- opinion,
- parley,
- passing word,
- pointer,
- proposal,
- recommendation,
- remonstrance,
- steer,
- subpoena,
- suggestion,
- summons,
- talking out of,
- thought,
- threat,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- ultimatum,
- venire,
- venire de novo,
- venire facias,
- verbum sapienti,
- warning,
- warning piece,
- whisper,
- writ of summons
- 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
- daemon
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- a person who is part mortal and part god related words >
- Geist,
- Muse,
- afflatus,
- ancestral spirits,
- angel,
- attendant godling,
- atua,
- control,
- creative thought,
- creativity,
- daimonion,
- demon,
- divine afflatus,
- evil spirits,
- fairy godmother,
- familiar,
- familiar spirit,
- fire of genius,
- genius,
- genius domus,
- genius loci,
- good angel,
- good genius,
- guardian,
- guardian angel,
- guardian spirit,
- guide,
- household gods,
- inspiration,
- intelligence,
- invisible helper,
- lares and penates,
- lares compitales,
- lares familiaris,
- lares permarini,
- lares praestites,
- lares viales,
- manes,
- ministering angel,
- numen,
- penates,
- soul,
- special providence,
- specter,
- spirit,
- supernatural being,
- talent,
- totem,
- tutelar god,
- tutelary
- preoccupation
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- the mental state of being preoccupied by something
- an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- adoption,
- adverse possession,
- alienation,
- alodium,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- application,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- assumption,
- bemusement,
- brown study,
- bulldog tenacity,
- burgage,
- castle-building,
- catatonic stupor,
- claim,
- close study,
- colonization,
- colony,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- concentration,
- conquest,
- constancy,
- contemplation,
- contemplativeness,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- dejection,
- dependency,
- depression,
- depth of thought,
- derivative title,
- detachment,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- dream,
- dreaming,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- endurance,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- enslavement,
- euphoria,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- fascination,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- fidelity,
- fiefdom,
- fit of abstraction,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- folie du doute,
- frankalmoign,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- gavelkind,
- hang-up,
- having title to,
- hold,
- holding,
- hypercathexis,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- idee fixe,
- immersion,
- indefatigability,
- indent,
- indifference,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- insensibility,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- intentness,
- involvement,
- irresistible impulse,
- knight service,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- lethargy,
- loyalty,
- mandate,
- mania,
- meditation,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mental distress,
- monomania,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- morbid drive,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- obstinacy,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- original title,
- owning,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- pensiveness,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- possessing,
- possession,
- preemption,
- preoccupancy,
- prepossession,
- prescription,
- profound thought,
- property,
- property rights,
- proprietary rights,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- rapt attention,
- reflectiveness,
- relentlessness,
- requisition,
- resolution,
- reverie,
- ruling passion,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- seisin,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- socage,
- speculativeness,
- squatting,
- stability,
- stamina,
- stargazing,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stubbornness,
- studiousness,
- study,
- stupor,
- subjugation,
- sublease,
- submersion,
- takeover,
- taking over,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- thoughtfulness,
- tic,
- tirelessness,
- title,
- trance,
- twitching,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- unremittingness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unswerving attention,
- usucapion,
- usurpation,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- villenage,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- woolgathering
- performance
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- any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe"
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"
- the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"
- a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 performances"; "the frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity" related words >
- Philharmonic concert,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- accordance,
- achievement,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- adherence,
- administration,
- adventure,
- agency,
- aping,
- appearance,
- attainment,
- baccalaureate service,
- band concert,
- behavior,
- benefit,
- bill,
- blow,
- bringing to fruition,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- cantando,
- care,
- carrying out,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chamber concert,
- characterization,
- commencement,
- commission,
- completion,
- compliance,
- concert,
- conduct,
- conformance,
- conformity,
- consummation,
- convocation,
- coup,
- dealings,
- debut,
- deed,
- demeanor,
- demilegato,
- demonstration,
- deportment,
- direction,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- display,
- doing,
- doings,
- driving,
- dumb show,
- effectiveness,
- effectuation,
- efficacy,
- effort,
- embodiment,
- empty formality,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- endeavor,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- entertainment,
- execution,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exploit,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- expression,
- fait accompli,
- farewell performance,
- feat,
- fingering,
- flesh show,
- formal,
- formality,
- fruition,
- fulfillment,
- function,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gest,
- gig,
- glissando,
- go,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- heed,
- heeding,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- implementation,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incarnation,
- initiation,
- interpretation,
- intonation,
- job,
- keeping,
- legato,
- liturgy,
- management,
- maneuver,
- manipulation,
- masquerade,
- measure,
- mezzo staccato,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mission accomplished,
- move,
- mummery,
- music-making,
- musical performance,
- musical program,
- observance,
- observation,
- occupation,
- office,
- opening,
- operancy,
- operation,
- ostentation,
- overacting,
- overproduction,
- overt act,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- parlando,
- passage,
- patter,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- personation,
- personification,
- philharmonic,
- pianism,
- pizzicato,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- pop concert,
- pops,
- popular concert,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- practice,
- premiere,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- proceeding,
- production,
- productiveness,
- program,
- program of music,
- projection,
- prom,
- promenade concert,
- realization,
- recital,
- religious ceremony,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repercussion,
- representation,
- res gestae,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- retrospective,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rubato,
- running,
- satisfaction,
- scene,
- service,
- service of music,
- show,
- showing,
- slapstick,
- slur,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stage presentation,
- steering,
- step,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- success,
- swan song,
- symphony concert,
- taking a role,
- theatrical performance,
- thing,
- thing done,
- touch,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- tryout,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- work,
- working,
- workings,
- works
- terrorism
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- the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear related words >
- Bolshevikism,
- Bolshevism,
- Carbonarism,
- Castroism,
- Jacobinism,
- Maoism,
- Sinn Feinism,
- acuteness,
- anarchism,
- animality,
- argumentum baculinum,
- atrocity,
- barbarity,
- big stick,
- bloodlust,
- brutality,
- despotism,
- destructiveness,
- domination,
- domineering,
- extremity,
- fascism,
- ferociousness,
- fierceness,
- force,
- furiousness,
- harshness,
- heavy hand,
- high hand,
- horrification,
- impetuosity,
- inclemency,
- inhumanity,
- intensity,
- iron boot,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- malignity,
- mercilessness,
- mindlessness,
- murderousness,
- oppression,
- pitilessness,
- reign of terror,
- revolutionism,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- sans-culotterie,
- sans-culottism,
- savagery,
- scaremongering,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- syndicalism,
- terror tactics,
- terroristic tactics,
- terrorization,
- thought control,
- tyranny,
- ungentleness,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence
- deceleration
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- the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed; "he initiated deceleration by braking"
- a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"
- (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity related words >
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- catabasis,
- check,
- collapse,
- constraint,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- crash,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrescendo,
- delay,
- detention,
- diminuendo,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drag,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- ebb,
- fall,
- flagging,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- lag,
- lapse,
- legal restraint,
- letdown,
- letup,
- minus acceleration,
- monopoly,
- obstruction,
- plunge,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- rein,
- remission,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- self-control,
- setback,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- slump,
- subsidence,
- tariff wall,
- thought control,
- wane
- annual,
- biannual,
- biennial,
- bimonthly,
- biweekly,
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- catamenial,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- daily,
- decennial,
- deciduous,
- diurnal,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fortnightly,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- hasty,
- hebdomadal,
- hourly,
- immediate,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- insubstantial,
- lightning-like,
- menstrual,
- momentaneous,
- momently,
- monthly,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- presto,
- quarterly,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- quotidian,
- secular,
- semestral,
- semiannual,
- semimonthly,
- semiweekly,
- semiyearly,
- short,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tertian,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- triennial,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- weekly,
- yearly
- arc,
- arc light,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- bellows,
- climate of opinion,
- color filter,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- ctenidia,
- dimmer,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- feeling,
- floats,
- flood,
- floodlight,
- footlights,
- foots,
- gelatin,
- general belief,
- gills,
- idea,
- impression,
- judgment,
- klieg light,
- light plot,
- limelight,
- lungs,
- marquee,
- medium,
- mind,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- personal judgment,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- position,
- posture,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- reaction,
- sentiment,
- sight,
- spot,
- spotlight,
- stance,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- view,
- way of thinking
- 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
- clairvoyance
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- apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses related words >
- ESP,
- a priori knowledge,
- anticipation,
- apprehension,
- astrology,
- augury,
- buddhi,
- clairsentience,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- crystal ball,
- crystal gazing,
- direct apprehension,
- divination,
- divining,
- extrasensory perception,
- foreboding,
- foreknowing,
- foreknowledge,
- foreseeability,
- foresight,
- forewisdom,
- fortunetelling,
- grasp,
- grip,
- haruspication,
- haruspicy,
- horoscopy,
- ideation,
- immediate cognition,
- insight,
- inspiration,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- intuition,
- intuitionism,
- intuitive reason,
- intuitiveness,
- intuitivism,
- knowledge without thought,
- lucidity,
- mantic,
- mantology,
- mastery,
- mental grasp,
- palm-reading,
- palmistry,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- premonition,
- presage,
- prescience,
- presentiment,
- psychometry,
- pythonism,
- satori,
- savvy,
- second sight,
- second-sightedness,
- sixth sense,
- sorcery,
- subconscious knowledge,
- subconscious perception,
- understanding,
- unmediated perception,
- wisdom
- breakneck
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- moving at very high speed; "a breakneck pace" related words >
- abrupt,
- accident-prone,
- agile,
- bluff,
- bold,
- breathless,
- careless,
- dangerous,
- daredevil,
- dashing,
- desperate,
- devil-may-care,
- double-quick,
- eagle-winged,
- excessive,
- expeditious,
- express,
- fast,
- fleet,
- flying,
- furious,
- galloping,
- hair-trigger,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hell for leather,
- hotheaded,
- hurried,
- hustling,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- light of heel,
- light-footed,
- lively,
- mad,
- mercurial,
- nimble,
- nimble-footed,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- panting,
- plunging,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- prompt,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- rapid,
- rash,
- reckless,
- running,
- sharp,
- sheer,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- speedy,
- steep,
- sudden,
- swift,
- vertical,
- wanton,
- wild,
- winged
- 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
- mystique
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- an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing related words >
- assumption,
- attitude,
- aura,
- blaze of glory,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- charisma,
- climate of opinion,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- cult,
- cultism,
- envelope,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- feeling,
- general belief,
- glamour,
- glory,
- halo,
- idea,
- illustriousness,
- impression,
- inscrutability,
- ism,
- judgment,
- lights,
- luster,
- magic,
- mind,
- mystery,
- nimbus,
- notion,
- numinousness,
- observation,
- opinion,
- personal judgment,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- position,
- posture,
- presumption,
- preternaturalism,
- prevailing belief,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- radiance,
- reaction,
- resplendence,
- resplendency,
- sentiment,
- sight,
- splendor,
- stance,
- strangeness,
- supernaturalism,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- view,
- way of thinking
- 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
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