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manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

motif collapse: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

rhetoric collapse: study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking); using language effectively to please or persuade

genre collapse: a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work

peculiarity collapse: a distinguishing trait; an odd or unusual characteristic

chic collapse: elegance by virtue of being fashionable; elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"

pistil collapse: the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma

background collapse: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear; a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"; the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"; relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"; extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"; understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

directness collapse: trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"

mode collapse: the most frequent value of a random variable; any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave; a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

exaggeration collapse: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; making to seem more important than it really is

coherence collapse: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; the state of cohering or sticking together

austerity collapse: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

wording collapse: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

vein collapse: one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect; a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"; a distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes"; a layer of ore between layers of rock; any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ; make a veinlike pattern

nickname collapse: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"; a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"

candor collapse: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

trendy collapse: in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"

naturalness collapse: the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"; the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"

vernacular collapse: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

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