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- vouchsafe
collapse - grant in a condescending manner related words >
- OK,
- accord,
- administer,
- admit,
- afford,
- allot,
- allow,
- award,
- bestow,
- bestow on,
- communicate,
- condescend,
- confer,
- consent,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deign,
- descend,
- dish out,
- dispense,
- dole,
- dole out,
- donate,
- extend,
- fork out,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give,
- give freely,
- give leave,
- give out,
- give permission,
- give the go-ahead,
- give the word,
- give up,
- grant,
- hand out,
- heap,
- help to,
- impart,
- issue,
- lavish,
- leave,
- let,
- let have,
- lower oneself,
- make possible,
- mete,
- mete out,
- offer,
- okay,
- permit,
- pour,
- present,
- proffer,
- rain,
- release,
- render,
- say the word,
- serve,
- shell out,
- shower,
- slip,
- snow,
- stoop,
- suffer,
- supply,
- tender,
- yield
- on the spot
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- without delay or immediately; "we hired her on the spot"; "thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"
- at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the spot"
- in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot" related words >
- PDQ,
- aboard,
- among us,
- apace,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at once,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- between two fires,
- but now,
- cornered,
- cursory,
- decisively,
- directly,
- endangered,
- even now,
- expeditious,
- expeditiously,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flying,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- furious,
- hasty,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hic et nunc,
- hither,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- immediately,
- imperiled,
- in Dutch,
- in a bind,
- in a fix,
- in a mess,
- in a pickle,
- in a predicament,
- in a scrape,
- in a spot,
- in danger,
- in deep water,
- in desperate case,
- in extremis,
- in jeopardy,
- in no time,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- in trouble,
- instant,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- jeopardized,
- just here,
- just now,
- just then,
- last-minute,
- momentaneously,
- momentarily,
- momently,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on Queer Street,
- on board,
- on the dot,
- on the instant,
- on the nail,
- passing,
- pretty damned quick,
- prompt,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quick,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right off,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smartly,
- snap,
- somewhere about,
- speedily,
- speedy,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- superficial,
- swift,
- swiftly,
- this day,
- this night,
- threatened,
- to this place,
- today,
- tonight,
- urgent,
- with all speed,
- with us,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- utterance
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- the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication related words >
- Parthian shot,
- address,
- adjectival phrase,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- answer,
- antonym,
- apostrophe,
- articulation,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- attack,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- clause,
- comment,
- conclusion,
- construction,
- crack,
- creed,
- declaration,
- delivery,
- dictum,
- enunciation,
- exclamation,
- expression,
- free form,
- greeting,
- headed group,
- homograph,
- homonym,
- homophone,
- idiom,
- idiotism,
- interjection,
- ipse dixit,
- lexeme,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic form,
- locution,
- logos,
- manifesto,
- manner of speaking,
- mention,
- metonym,
- minimum free form,
- monosyllable,
- note,
- noun phrase,
- observation,
- paragraph,
- parol,
- parole,
- peculiar expression,
- period,
- phonation,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- polysyllable,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- predicate,
- predication,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- pronunciation,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- question,
- reflection,
- remark,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sequence of phonemes,
- set phrase,
- speaking,
- speech act,
- stance,
- stand,
- standard phrase,
- statement,
- string,
- subjoinder,
- syllable,
- synonym,
- syntactic structure,
- term,
- the spoken word,
- thought,
- tongue,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- utterance string,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- verbum,
- vocable,
- vocalization,
- voice,
- voicing,
- vouch,
- way of speaking,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- word-group
- advice
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- a proposal for an appropriate course of action related words >
- admonition,
- advisement,
- alerting,
- broadcast journalism,
- caution,
- cautioning,
- clue,
- communication,
- communique,
- counsel,
- cue,
- direction,
- dispatch,
- embassy,
- express,
- forewarning,
- guidance,
- information,
- instruction,
- intelligence,
- journalism,
- letter,
- message,
- monition,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- notice,
- notification,
- office,
- opinion,
- passing word,
- pneumatogram,
- pointer,
- press association,
- radio,
- recommendation,
- release,
- reportage,
- steer,
- suggestion,
- teaching,
- telegram,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- view,
- warning,
- whisper,
- wire service,
- word
- Vorstellung,
- cameo,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- character,
- character sketch,
- characterization,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- delineation,
- depiction,
- description,
- details,
- eidetic image,
- envisaging,
- envisioning,
- evocation,
- graphic account,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagery study,
- imaging,
- imagism,
- imagistic poetry,
- impression,
- itemization,
- lifelike image,
- limning,
- mental image,
- mental picture,
- mental representation,
- objectification,
- particularization,
- photograph,
- picture,
- picturing,
- poetic imagery,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- profile,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- sketch,
- specification,
- vignette,
- vision,
- visual image,
- visualization,
- vivid description,
- word painting
- modifier
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- a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene
- a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
- a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising related words >
- IC analysis,
- agent,
- alterant,
- alterative,
- alterer,
- appositive,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- catalyst,
- catalytic agent,
- complement,
- construction modifier,
- cutting,
- deep structure,
- direct object,
- ferment,
- filler,
- form-function unit,
- function,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- indirect object,
- innovationist,
- innovator,
- introducer,
- leaven,
- levels,
- modificator,
- object,
- phrase structure,
- precursor,
- predicate,
- qualifier,
- ranks,
- shallow structure,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- strata,
- structure,
- subject,
- surface structure,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntactics,
- syntax,
- tagmeme,
- transformer,
- transmogrifier,
- underlying structure,
- word arrangement,
- word order,
- yeast
- perfectly
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- in a perfect or faultless way; "She performed perfectly on the balance beam"; "spoke English perfectly"; "solved the problem perfectly" related words >
- a outrance,
- absolutely,
- accurately,
- admirably,
- all out,
- altogether,
- beyond all bounds,
- beyond compare,
- beyond comparison,
- beyond measure,
- bloody,
- clean,
- completely,
- consummately,
- correctly,
- damned,
- dead,
- definitely,
- downright,
- entirely,
- essentially,
- exactly,
- explicitly,
- exquisitely,
- extraordinarily,
- extremely,
- faultlessly,
- flat out,
- flawlessly,
- full,
- fully,
- fundamentally,
- ideally,
- immaculately,
- immeasurably,
- impeccably,
- in the extreme,
- incalculably,
- incomparably,
- indefinitely,
- infallibly,
- infinitely,
- inimitably,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- jolly,
- just right,
- just so,
- literally,
- literatim,
- most,
- plain,
- plumb,
- positively,
- precisely,
- properly,
- purely,
- quite,
- radically,
- remarkably,
- right,
- rightly,
- sheer,
- sic,
- so,
- spotlessly,
- stark,
- straight,
- sublimely,
- superbly,
- superlatively,
- thoroughly,
- to the letter,
- totally,
- truly,
- unambiguously,
- unconditionally,
- unequivocally,
- unmistakably,
- unrelievedly,
- utterly,
- verbatim,
- very,
- wholly,
- with a vengeance,
- wonderfully,
- word for word
- vow
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- a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "they took vows of poverty"
- make a vow; promise; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again"
- dedicate to a deity by a vow related words >
- Bible oath,
- affirm,
- and candle,
- assert,
- assert under oath,
- asseverate,
- assurance,
- assure,
- attest,
- avouch,
- avouchment,
- avow,
- book,
- certify,
- confess,
- countersign,
- covenant,
- declare,
- depone,
- depose,
- express the belief,
- extrajudicial oath,
- faith,
- guarantee,
- ironclad oath,
- judicial oath,
- kiss the book,
- loyalty oath,
- make a promise,
- oath,
- oath of allegiance,
- oath of office,
- official oath,
- parole,
- pledge,
- plight,
- profess,
- promise,
- solemn declaration,
- solemn oath,
- state,
- swan,
- swear,
- swear by bell,
- swear the truth,
- swear to,
- swear to God,
- swear to goodness,
- test oath,
- testify,
- troth,
- underwrite,
- vouch,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- word,
- word of honor
- borrowing
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- the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
- obtaining funds from a lender related words >
- accounts payable,
- accounts receivable,
- amount due,
- appropriation,
- autoplagiarism,
- bad debts,
- bill,
- bills,
- borrowed word,
- calque,
- charges,
- cheap money,
- chits,
- cribbing,
- debt,
- discounting,
- due,
- dues,
- financial commitment,
- floating debt,
- foreignism,
- funded debt,
- indebtedness,
- indebtment,
- infringement of copyright,
- lending,
- liability,
- literary piracy,
- loan translation,
- loan word,
- maturity,
- money market,
- national debt,
- note discounting,
- note shaving,
- obligation,
- outstanding debt,
- paronym,
- piracy,
- plagiarism,
- plagiarizing,
- plagiary,
- pledge,
- public debt,
- score,
- tight money,
- uncollectibles,
- unfulfilled pledge
- acknowledgments,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- back,
- back matter,
- bastard title,
- battle cry,
- bibliography,
- bugle call,
- byword,
- call to arms,
- call-up,
- catch line,
- catch phrase,
- clarion,
- clarion call,
- cliche,
- clue,
- collected sayings,
- colophon,
- conscription,
- contents,
- contents page,
- copyright page,
- cry,
- cue,
- cue word,
- current saying,
- dedication,
- device,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- endleaf,
- endpaper,
- endsheet,
- epigram,
- epigraph,
- epithet,
- errata,
- evidence,
- exhortation,
- expression,
- fad word,
- flyleaf,
- folio,
- fore edge,
- foreword,
- front matter,
- gnome,
- go for broke,
- golden saying,
- gung ho,
- half-title page,
- head,
- hint,
- hot lead,
- imprint,
- index,
- inscription,
- intimation,
- introduction,
- key,
- key word,
- lead,
- leaf,
- levy,
- makeup,
- maxim,
- mobilization,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- muster,
- oracle,
- page,
- pet expression,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- preface,
- preliminaries,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- rally,
- rallying cry,
- rebel yell,
- recruitment,
- recto,
- reverso,
- running title,
- saw,
- saying,
- scent,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shibboleth,
- signature,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- spoor,
- stock saying,
- subtitle,
- suggestion,
- sutra,
- table of contents,
- tag line,
- tail,
- teaching,
- telltale,
- text,
- tip-off,
- title,
- title page,
- trace,
- trim size,
- trumpet call,
- type page,
- verse,
- verso,
- vestige,
- vogue word,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- watchword,
- whiff,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- catchword,
- clue,
- cue,
- cue word,
- danger sign,
- early symptom,
- evidence,
- falling barometer,
- gathering clouds,
- high sign,
- hint,
- hot lead,
- intimation,
- key,
- key word,
- lead,
- omen,
- precursor,
- preliminary sign,
- premonitory sign,
- premonitory symptom,
- prodroma,
- prodrome,
- quarantine flag,
- red flag,
- red light,
- scent,
- skull and crossbones,
- spoor,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- suggestion,
- symptom,
- telltale,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- tip-off,
- trace,
- vestige,
- warning sign,
- warning signal,
- whiff,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- primary,
- prototypal,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unduplicated,
- unexaggerated,
- unexampled,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- uninvented,
- unprecedented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unreproduced,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- verbal
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- communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
- prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
- relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
- expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
- of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
- of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- answering,
- articulated,
- attributive,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- colloquial,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conjunctive,
- conversational,
- copulative,
- correct,
- dinkum,
- enunciated,
- expressed,
- following the letter,
- formal,
- functional,
- genuine,
- glossematic,
- good,
- grammatic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- iconic,
- inartificial,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intransitive,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lexemic,
- lexical,
- lifelike,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- literal,
- morphemic,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nominal,
- nuncupative,
- oral,
- original,
- parol,
- participial,
- phrasal,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- pronounced,
- pure,
- questioning,
- real,
- realistic,
- responsive,
- rightful,
- said,
- semantic,
- semantological,
- semasiological,
- sememic,
- semiotic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- sterling,
- structural,
- substantive,
- sure-enough,
- symbolic,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- telepathic,
- traditional,
- transitive,
- transmissional,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- viva voce,
- vocabular,
- vocabulary,
- vocal,
- vocalized,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- word,
- word-for-word,
- word-of-mouth
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- imageless,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconceived,
- unconceptualized,
- unconcocted,
- unconsidered,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- undreamed-of,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimaged,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unthought-of,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- adherence,
- adhesion,
- affiance,
- allegiance,
- assurance,
- assure,
- attachment,
- avouch,
- avouchment,
- banns,
- banns of matrimony,
- become engaged,
- betroth,
- betrothal,
- betrothing,
- betrothment,
- bona fides,
- bond,
- bonne foi,
- constancy,
- contract,
- contract an engagement,
- countersign,
- devotedness,
- devotion,
- engage,
- engagement,
- espousal,
- faith,
- faithfulness,
- fealty,
- fidelity,
- firmness,
- good faith,
- guarantee,
- handfasting,
- homage,
- loyalty,
- make a promise,
- marriage contract,
- oath,
- parole,
- pledge,
- plight,
- plighted faith,
- plighted troth,
- promise,
- publish the banns,
- solemn declaration,
- staunchness,
- steadfastness,
- swear,
- tie,
- true blue,
- trueness,
- underwrite,
- vouch,
- vow,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- word,
- word of honor
- syntax
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- the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
- studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
- a systematic orderly arrangement related words >
- IC analysis,
- allocation,
- allotment,
- apportionment,
- appositive,
- arrangement,
- array,
- arraying,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- collation,
- collocation,
- complement,
- constitution,
- construction modifier,
- cutting,
- deep structure,
- deployment,
- direct object,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- distribution,
- filler,
- form,
- form-function unit,
- formation,
- formulation,
- function,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- indirect object,
- levels,
- marshaling,
- modifier,
- object,
- order,
- ordering,
- phrase structure,
- placement,
- predicate,
- qualifier,
- ranks,
- regimentation,
- shallow structure,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- strata,
- structure,
- structuring,
- subject,
- surface structure,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntactics,
- tagmeme,
- underlying structure,
- word arrangement,
- word order
- abstraction,
- banality,
- banalness,
- bathetic,
- bromide,
- byword,
- catch phrase,
- catchword,
- chestnut,
- cliched,
- commonness,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- commonplaceness,
- corn,
- corniness,
- cry,
- fad word,
- familiar tune,
- familiarness,
- fustiness,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- hack,
- hackneyed,
- hackneyed expression,
- hackneyed saying,
- hackneyedness,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- mustiness,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- pet expression,
- platitude,
- platitudinousness,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- shibboleth,
- slogan,
- squareness,
- stale,
- staleness,
- stereotype,
- stereotyped saying,
- sweeping statement,
- tag,
- timeworn,
- tired cliche,
- trite saying,
- triteness,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale,
- unoriginality,
- vogue word
- honest-to-God
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- (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" related words >
- absolute,
- actual,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- de facto,
- dinkum,
- factual,
- following the letter,
- for real,
- genuine,
- good,
- historical,
- honest,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- positive,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- substantial,
- sure-enough,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeniable,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- veritable,
- word-for-word
- double entendre
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- an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- amphibology,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- complexity of meaning,
- counterword,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ethnic joke,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- good one,
- good story,
- howler,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- laugh,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- panic,
- paronomasia,
- play,
- point,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- punning,
- rib tickler,
- richness of meaning,
- riot,
- scream,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- sport,
- squinting construction,
- story,
- tergiversation,
- uncertainty,
- visual joke,
- weasel word,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn
- spoor
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- the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game; "the hounds followed the fox's spoor" related words >
- aroma,
- breath,
- broad hint,
- catchword,
- clue,
- condensation trail,
- contrail,
- course,
- cue,
- cue word,
- definite odor,
- detectable odor,
- effluvium,
- emanation,
- essence,
- evidence,
- exhalation,
- flavor,
- footstep,
- fragrance,
- fume,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- hint,
- hot lead,
- implication,
- index,
- indication,
- inkling,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- key,
- key word,
- kick,
- lead,
- line,
- look,
- nod,
- nudge,
- odor,
- path,
- piste,
- prompt,
- redolence,
- savor,
- scent,
- sign,
- signal,
- signs,
- smell,
- stench,
- step,
- subtle odor,
- suggestion,
- suspicion,
- symptom,
- telltale,
- tip-off,
- trace,
- traces,
- track,
- tract,
- trail,
- vapor trail,
- vestige,
- wake,
- whiff,
- whisper,
- wink
- pun
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- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- ambiguity,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- chime,
- clink,
- corruption,
- counterword,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- double entendre,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- near rhyme,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- punning,
- quip,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- slant rhyme,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- squinting construction,
- utter a mot,
- weasel word,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- vocable
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- a word that is spoken aloud related words >
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- antonym,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- expression,
- free form,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- homograph,
- homonym,
- homophone,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lexeme,
- lingual,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic form,
- liquid,
- locution,
- logos,
- manner of articulation,
- metonym,
- minimum free form,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monosyllable,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- parol,
- parole,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phonation,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plosive,
- polysyllable,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sequence of phonemes,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speaking,
- speech act,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- string,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- synonym,
- term,
- the spoken word,
- tongue,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- usage,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- velar,
- verbalism,
- verbum,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- word,
- word of mouth
- lifelike
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- free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" related words >
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- breathing,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- literal,
- living,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- representative,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- speaking,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- to the life,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vivid,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- breathing,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- living,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- representative,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- speaking,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- to the life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vivid,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- verisimilar
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- appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale" related words >
- apt,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- fair,
- following the letter,
- foreseeable,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- hopeful,
- in the cards,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- liable,
- lifelike,
- likely,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- odds-on,
- original,
- predictable,
- predictable within limits,
- presumable,
- presumptive,
- probable,
- promising,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- statistically probable,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- word-for-word
- unflattering
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- showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress" related words >
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- guileless,
- harsh,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- insulting,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- stark,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unbeguileful,
- unbeguiling,
- uncalculating,
- uncolored,
- uncomplimentary,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeceitful,
- undeceiving,
- undeceptive,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulated,
- undissimulating,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfavorable,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsympathetic,
- unsynthetic,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- appellation,
- appellative,
- axiom,
- binomen,
- binomial name,
- burning shame,
- butt,
- byname,
- byword of reproach,
- catch phrase,
- catchword,
- cliche,
- cognomen,
- collected sayings,
- cry,
- cryptonym,
- current saying,
- denomination,
- derision,
- designation,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirty shame,
- disgrace,
- distich,
- dupe,
- empty title,
- epigram,
- epithet,
- eponym,
- euonym,
- expression,
- fad word,
- fair game,
- figure of fun,
- fool,
- game,
- gazingstock,
- gnome,
- goat,
- golden saying,
- handle,
- honorific,
- humiliation,
- hyponym,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- label,
- laughingstock,
- low-down dirty shame,
- maxim,
- mockery,
- moniker,
- monkey,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- name,
- namesake,
- nomen,
- nomen nudum,
- oracle,
- parable,
- pet expression,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proper name,
- proper noun,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- reproach,
- saw,
- saying,
- scandal,
- scientific name,
- secret name,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shame,
- shibboleth,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- sobriquet,
- stock,
- stock saying,
- style,
- sutra,
- tag,
- target,
- tautonym,
- teaching,
- text,
- title,
- toy,
- trinomen,
- trinomial name,
- verse,
- victim,
- vogue word,
- watchword,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- speaking
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- the utterance of intelligible speech related words >
- ESP,
- accents,
- answer,
- articulate,
- breathing,
- chatter,
- comment,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent,
- exchange,
- faithful,
- forensics,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lifelike,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic intercourse,
- living,
- locution,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- message,
- natural,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- outspoken,
- palaver,
- parol,
- parole,
- phonation,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- realistic,
- reply,
- response,
- rhetoric,
- sequence of phonemes,
- social intercourse,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- speech,
- speech act,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- string,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talkative,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the spoken word,
- to the life,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true-speaking,
- two-way communication,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- verbalization,
- vocable,
- voice,
- well-spoken,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- predicate
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- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" related words >
- IC analysis,
- advance,
- affirm,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- allege,
- announce,
- announcement,
- annunciate,
- annunciation,
- appositive,
- argue,
- assert,
- assertion,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- asseveration,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- aver,
- averment,
- avouch,
- avouchment,
- avow,
- avowal,
- bottom,
- complement,
- conclusion,
- construction modifier,
- contend,
- creed,
- cutting,
- declaration,
- declare,
- deep structure,
- depose,
- dictum,
- direct object,
- enunciate,
- enunciation,
- establish,
- express,
- filler,
- form-function unit,
- found,
- function,
- ground,
- have,
- hold,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- indirect object,
- insist,
- ipse dixit,
- issue a manifesto,
- lay down,
- levels,
- maintain,
- manifesto,
- modifier,
- object,
- phrase structure,
- pose,
- posit,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- postulate,
- predication,
- proclaim,
- proclamation,
- profess,
- profession,
- pronounce,
- pronouncement,
- propose,
- proposition,
- propound,
- protest,
- protestation,
- put,
- put it,
- qualifier,
- ranks,
- rest,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- set down,
- set forth,
- shallow structure,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- speak,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- stance,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- state,
- statement,
- stay,
- strata,
- structure,
- subject,
- submit,
- surface structure,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntactics,
- syntax,
- tagmeme,
- underlying structure,
- utterance,
- vouch,
- word,
- word arrangement,
- word order
- promulgate
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- put a law into effect by formal declaration related words >
- abide by,
- adhere to,
- administer,
- advertise,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- bid,
- blare,
- blare forth,
- blaze,
- blaze abroad,
- blazon,
- blazon about,
- broadcast,
- call on,
- call the signals,
- call upon,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- celebrate,
- charge,
- command,
- commission,
- complete,
- cry,
- cry out,
- declaim,
- declare,
- decree,
- dictate,
- direct,
- discharge,
- disseminate,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- enforce,
- enjoin,
- execute,
- fill out,
- fulfill,
- give an order,
- give the word,
- herald,
- herald abroad,
- honor,
- implement,
- instruct,
- issue a command,
- issue a writ,
- make,
- make out,
- mandate,
- observe,
- ordain,
- order,
- order about,
- proclaim,
- pronounce,
- prosecute,
- publish,
- put in force,
- put through,
- render,
- rule,
- say the word,
- shout,
- sound,
- thunder,
- thunder forth,
- toot,
- transact,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth
- arid,
- authentic,
- barren,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- mundane,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- staid,
- sterling,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninspired,
- uninvented,
- uninventive,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- mention
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- an official recognition of merit; "although he didn't win the prize he did get special mention"
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone; "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife"
- commend; "he was cited for his outstanding achievements"
- make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- accolade,
- account,
- acknowledge,
- acquaint,
- acquaintance,
- address,
- address to,
- adduce,
- advert,
- advertise,
- advertise of,
- advise,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- allude,
- allude to,
- allusion,
- animadvert on,
- announcement,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- apprise,
- assertion,
- assign,
- averment,
- blue book,
- blurt,
- blurt out,
- brief,
- briefing,
- bring in,
- bring to attention,
- bring to notice,
- bring up,
- bring word,
- broach,
- bulletin,
- call attention to,
- citation,
- cite,
- comment,
- communicate,
- communication,
- communique,
- crack,
- data,
- datum,
- declaration,
- denominate,
- designate,
- detail,
- determine,
- dictum,
- direct attention to,
- direct to,
- directory,
- disclose,
- dispatch,
- divulge,
- enlighten,
- enlightenment,
- eulogy,
- evidence,
- exclaim,
- exclamation,
- expression,
- facts,
- factual information,
- familiarization,
- familiarize,
- fix,
- focus on,
- gen,
- general information,
- give notice,
- give the facts,
- give word,
- greeting,
- guidebook,
- handout,
- hard information,
- hint at,
- honorable mention,
- impart,
- imply,
- incidental information,
- indicate,
- info,
- inform,
- information,
- insinuate,
- instance,
- instruct,
- instruction,
- intelligence,
- interject,
- interjection,
- intimate,
- introduce,
- knowledge,
- kudos,
- leave word,
- let drop,
- let fall,
- let know,
- light,
- make known,
- make reference to,
- mark,
- mention to,
- mentioning,
- message,
- muse,
- name,
- naming,
- note,
- notice,
- notification,
- notify,
- observation,
- observe,
- opine,
- phrase,
- pick out,
- pin down,
- point at,
- point out,
- point to,
- position,
- praise,
- presentation,
- promotional material,
- pronouncement,
- proof,
- publication,
- publicity,
- question,
- quote,
- recognition,
- refer,
- refer to,
- reference,
- referral,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- release,
- remark,
- report,
- reveal,
- say,
- saying,
- select,
- send word,
- sentence,
- serve notice,
- set,
- sidelight,
- signify,
- slight,
- speak,
- specialize,
- specify,
- state,
- statement,
- stipulate,
- subjoinder,
- suggest,
- tell,
- the dope,
- the goods,
- the know,
- the scoop,
- thought,
- touch on,
- touch upon,
- transmission,
- tribute,
- utterance,
- verse,
- white book,
- white paper,
- word
- IC analysis,
- appositive,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- complement,
- construction modifier,
- cutting,
- deep structure,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- direct object,
- etymology,
- filler,
- form-function unit,
- function,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- indirect object,
- language study,
- levels,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- modifier,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- object,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase structure,
- predicate,
- psycholinguistics,
- qualifier,
- ranks,
- semantics,
- shallow structure,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- sociolinguistics,
- strata,
- structuralism,
- structure,
- subject,
- surface structure,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntax,
- tagmeme,
- transformational linguistics,
- underlying structure,
- word arrangement,
- word order
- pronounce
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- pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" related words >
- act on,
- affirm,
- allege,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- argue,
- articulate,
- assert,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- aver,
- avouch,
- avow,
- bid,
- breathe,
- broadcast,
- call on,
- call the signals,
- call upon,
- charge,
- chime,
- chorus,
- come out with,
- command,
- commission,
- communicate,
- condemn,
- contend,
- convey,
- declare,
- declare roundly,
- decree,
- deliver,
- dictate,
- direct,
- disclose,
- doom,
- emit,
- enjoin,
- enunciate,
- express,
- find,
- find against,
- find for,
- fling off,
- formulate,
- give,
- give an order,
- give expression,
- give notice,
- give out with,
- give the word,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- have,
- hold,
- impart,
- insist,
- instruct,
- issue a command,
- issue a manifesto,
- issue a statement,
- issue a writ,
- judge,
- lay down,
- let out,
- lip,
- maintain,
- make a statement,
- make an announcement,
- make known,
- mandate,
- manifesto,
- ordain,
- order,
- order about,
- out with,
- pass,
- pass judgment,
- pass sentence,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- pour forth,
- predicate,
- present,
- proclaim,
- profess,
- promulgate,
- pronounce judgment,
- pronounce on,
- protest,
- publicize,
- publish,
- publish a manifesto,
- put,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- put it,
- put out,
- raise,
- report,
- return a verdict,
- rule,
- say,
- say the word,
- sentence,
- set down,
- set forth,
- sound,
- speak,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- state,
- submit,
- tell,
- throw off,
- utter,
- utter a judgment,
- verbalize,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- whisper,
- word
- transmit
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- send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" related words >
- abalienate,
- add a codicil,
- address,
- air-express,
- airfreight,
- airmail,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amortize,
- assign,
- barter,
- beam,
- bequeath,
- break,
- broadcast,
- cable,
- carry,
- carry over,
- cede,
- channel,
- communicate,
- conduct,
- confer,
- consign,
- convey,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliver,
- demise,
- deport,
- devise,
- devolve upon,
- diffuse,
- direct,
- dispatch,
- disseminate,
- drop a letter,
- embark,
- enfeoff,
- entail,
- exchange,
- execute a will,
- expedite,
- expel,
- export,
- express,
- extradite,
- fax,
- forward,
- freight,
- funnel,
- get across,
- get over,
- give,
- give title to,
- give word,
- go through,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- impart,
- import,
- instill,
- jam,
- leave,
- leave word,
- mail,
- make a bequest,
- make a will,
- make known,
- make over,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- negotiate,
- newscast,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- pass through,
- perfuse,
- phone,
- pipe,
- post,
- put,
- radiate,
- radio,
- radiobroadcast,
- relay,
- remit,
- render,
- report,
- route,
- sell,
- send,
- send away,
- send forth,
- send off,
- send word,
- settle,
- settle on,
- share,
- share with,
- ship,
- shortwave,
- sign away,
- sign off,
- sign on,
- sign over,
- signal,
- siphon,
- sportscast,
- spread,
- surrender,
- switch,
- telegraph,
- telephone,
- telex,
- tell,
- trade,
- traject,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transport,
- transpose,
- turn over,
- will,
- will and bequeath,
- will to,
- wire,
- wireless
- arcadian,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- guileless,
- homespun,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- native,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- naturelike,
- original,
- pastoral,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- rural,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unartificial,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unbeguileful,
- unbeguiling,
- uncalculating,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeceitful,
- undeceiving,
- undeceptive,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulated,
- undissimulating,
- undistorted,
- unembellished,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unspoiled,
- unsynthetic,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- absolute power,
- absolutism,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- authority,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- behest,
- bidding,
- choice,
- command,
- commandment,
- competence,
- competency,
- conclusion,
- constituted authority,
- creed,
- declaration,
- delegated authority,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- dictum,
- direct order,
- discretion,
- divine right,
- enunciation,
- faculty,
- free choice,
- free decision,
- free will,
- full consent,
- hest,
- imperative,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- ipse dixit,
- jus divinum,
- lawful authority,
- legal authority,
- legitimacy,
- manifesto,
- noncontingent free will,
- option,
- order,
- pleasure,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- power,
- predicate,
- predication,
- prerogative,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- regality,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- royal prerogative,
- say,
- saying,
- special order,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- utterance,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- vouch,
- will,
- word,
- word of command
- 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
- enlighten
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- give spiritual insight to; in religion
- make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" related words >
- account for,
- acculturate,
- acquaint,
- advance,
- advertise,
- advertise of,
- advise,
- allegorize,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- apprise,
- awaken,
- beacon,
- better,
- boost,
- break the spell,
- brief,
- brighten,
- brighten up,
- bring forward,
- bring word,
- broaden the mind,
- burst the bubble,
- catechize,
- civilize,
- clarify,
- clear up,
- coach,
- communicate,
- correct,
- counsel,
- crack,
- debunk,
- decipher,
- demonstrate,
- demythologize,
- direct,
- disabuse,
- disappoint,
- disclose,
- disenchant,
- disillude,
- disillusion,
- disillusionize,
- edify,
- educate,
- elevate,
- elucidate,
- emend,
- enhance,
- enrich,
- euhemerize,
- exemplify,
- explain,
- explain away,
- explicate,
- expose,
- exposit,
- expound,
- familiarize,
- fatten,
- favor,
- flood with light,
- floodlight,
- forward,
- foster,
- give instruction,
- give lessons in,
- give notice,
- give reason for,
- give the facts,
- give the meaning,
- give word,
- go straight,
- ground,
- guide,
- highlight,
- illume,
- illuminate,
- illumine,
- illustrate,
- improve,
- improve upon,
- inform,
- instruct,
- irradiate,
- lard,
- leave word,
- let down easy,
- let in on,
- let know,
- lift,
- light,
- light up,
- lighten,
- luminate,
- make an improvement,
- make clear,
- make plain,
- meliorate,
- mend,
- mention to,
- notify,
- nurture,
- open the eyes,
- overshine,
- popularize,
- prick the bubble,
- promote,
- put straight,
- raise,
- rationalize,
- reeducate,
- refine upon,
- reform,
- relume,
- relumine,
- report,
- school,
- send word,
- serve notice,
- set right,
- set straight,
- sharpen the wits,
- shed light upon,
- shine upon,
- show,
- show how,
- show the way,
- show up,
- simplify,
- socialize,
- solve,
- speak,
- spell out,
- spotlight,
- straighten out,
- teach,
- teach a lesson,
- teach the rudiments,
- tell,
- tell the truth,
- throw light upon,
- train,
- transfigure,
- transform,
- tutor,
- unblindfold,
- uncharm,
- undeceive,
- unfold,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unspell,
- upgrade,
- uplift,
- verse,
- wake up
- ambiguity
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- unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
- an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context related words >
- Janus,
- ambivalence,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- cavil,
- conjugation,
- counterword,
- dichotomy,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double-talk,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- evasion,
- haggling,
- hair-splitting,
- halving,
- hedge,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- impenetrability,
- imprecision,
- inapprehensibility,
- inarticulateness,
- incognizability,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- incomprehensibility,
- inconclusiveness,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- indefiniteness,
- indistinctness,
- inscrutability,
- irony,
- irreconcilability,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformity,
- numinousness,
- obscurity,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- polarity,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- quibbling,
- ramblingness,
- self-contradiction,
- shift,
- squinting construction,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformability,
- unconformity,
- unconnectedness,
- unfathomableness,
- unintelligibility,
- unknowability,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsearchableness,
- vagueness,
- weasel word
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