Related Words:
- Machiavellian,
- Rasputin,
- Svengali,
- VIP,
- access,
- bad influence,
- behind-the-scenes operator,
- big wheel,
- calculator,
- coconspirator,
- conniver,
- conspirator,
- conspirer,
- counterplotter,
- court,
- eminence grise,
- exploiter,
- finagler,
- five-percenter,
- fixer,
- four-percenter,
- friend at court,
- gamesman,
- good influence,
- gray eminence,
- heavyweight,
- hidden hand,
- influence,
- influence peddler,
- influencer,
- ingroup,
- intrigant,
- intriguer,
- key,
- kingmaker,
- lobby,
- lobbyist,
- logroller,
- lords of creation,
- machinator,
- man of influence,
- maneuverer,
- manipulator,
- open sesame,
- operator,
- opportunist,
- plotter,
- pork-barrel politician,
- power broker,
- powers that be,
- pressure group,
- schemer,
- sinister influence,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- strategist,
- tactician,
- the Establishment,
- very important person,
- wheeler-dealer
- specialization
collapse - the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology"
- the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" related words >
- alteration,
- analysis,
- anatomization,
- area,
- art,
- atomization,
- bag,
- business,
- calling,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- change,
- craft,
- cup of tea,
- demarcation,
- desynonymization,
- differencing,
- differentiation,
- discrimination,
- disequalization,
- disjunction,
- distinction,
- distinguishment,
- diversification,
- division,
- field,
- forte,
- game,
- handicraft,
- individualization,
- individuation,
- itemization,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- localization,
- long suit,
- main interest,
- manner,
- metier,
- mission,
- modification,
- mystery,
- number,
- occupation,
- particularization,
- peculiarization,
- personalization,
- pet subject,
- practice,
- profession,
- pursuit,
- racket,
- segregation,
- separation,
- severalization,
- severance,
- specialism,
- speciality,
- specialty,
- strong point,
- style,
- technicality,
- thing,
- trade,
- type,
- variation,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- way,
- weakness,
- work
- scourge
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- a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
- punish severely; excoriate related words >
- adversity,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- ambulatory plague,
- bane,
- baste,
- bastinado,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- birch,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blacksnake,
- blister,
- bubonic plague,
- buffet,
- bugbear,
- bullwhack,
- bullwhip,
- burden,
- calamity,
- cane,
- castigate,
- castigation,
- cat,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- chastening,
- chastise,
- chastisement,
- club,
- condign punishment,
- correction,
- cowhide,
- crop,
- crushing burden,
- cudgel,
- curse,
- cut,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- depredate,
- desecrate,
- deserts,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- disciplinary measures,
- discipline,
- disease,
- drub,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- excoriate,
- ferule,
- flagellate,
- flagellum,
- flail,
- flay,
- flog,
- frail,
- fustigate,
- give a whipping,
- give the stick,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hide,
- hit,
- horsewhip,
- infliction,
- judgment,
- judicial punishment,
- knout,
- kurbash,
- lace,
- larval plague,
- lash,
- lather,
- lay on,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- murrain,
- nemesis,
- open wound,
- pains,
- pains and punishments,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pay,
- payment,
- penal retribution,
- penalty,
- penology,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- pillage,
- pistol-whip,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- pommel,
- premonitory plague,
- pummel,
- punish,
- punishment,
- punition,
- quirt,
- rawhide,
- razor strap,
- retribution,
- retributive justice,
- running sore,
- sack,
- scarify,
- scathe,
- scorch,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- sjambok,
- slash,
- smite,
- spank,
- spoliate,
- strap,
- stripe,
- swinge,
- switch,
- thong,
- thorn,
- thrash,
- thump,
- torment,
- trounce,
- truncheon,
- tuberculosis,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- wallop,
- waste,
- wear out,
- well-deserved punishment,
- whale,
- what-for,
- whip,
- whiplash,
- white plague,
- whop,
- woe
- half
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- in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval
- (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister"
- partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes" related words >
- allotment,
- allowance,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bisection,
- bit,
- bite,
- budget,
- chunk,
- commission,
- contingent,
- cut,
- deal,
- destiny,
- distributional,
- distributive,
- dividend,
- dole,
- end,
- equal,
- equal share,
- equidistance,
- even stephen,
- fate,
- fifty percent,
- fifty-fifty,
- half-and-half,
- halfway,
- halfway house,
- halver,
- halvers,
- helping,
- hemisphere,
- interest,
- lot,
- measure,
- mediety,
- meed,
- mess,
- mid-distance,
- midcourse,
- middle distance,
- midway,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- one-and-a-half,
- part,
- partial,
- particular,
- partly,
- per capita,
- per head,
- percentage,
- piece,
- portion,
- pro rata,
- proportion,
- proportional,
- proportionate,
- prorated,
- quantum,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- ration,
- respective,
- segment,
- semicircle,
- semisphere,
- several,
- share,
- slice,
- small share,
- stake,
- stock
- meed
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- a fitting reward related words >
- allotment,
- allowance,
- amends,
- apportionment,
- atonement,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bit,
- bite,
- blood money,
- budget,
- carrot,
- chunk,
- commission,
- compensation,
- consideration,
- contingent,
- cut,
- damages,
- deal,
- desert,
- destiny,
- dividend,
- dole,
- due,
- end,
- equal share,
- fate,
- guerdon,
- half,
- halver,
- helping,
- honorarium,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- interest,
- lot,
- measure,
- merit,
- mess,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- part,
- percentage,
- piece,
- plum,
- portion,
- premium,
- price,
- prize,
- proportion,
- quantum,
- quittance,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- ration,
- recompense,
- recompensing,
- redress,
- remuneration,
- reparation,
- requital,
- requitement,
- restitution,
- retribution,
- return,
- reward,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- segment,
- share,
- slice,
- small share,
- smart money,
- solatium,
- stake,
- stock,
- wergild
- pretension
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- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- bribe
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- payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" related words >
- Trinkgeld,
- approach,
- bait,
- bonus,
- boodle,
- bounty,
- bribe money,
- buy,
- buy off,
- carrot,
- consideration,
- corrupt,
- donative,
- double time,
- encouragement,
- fee,
- fillip,
- fix,
- get at,
- get to,
- graft,
- gratification,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- grease the palm,
- have,
- honorarium,
- hush money,
- incentive,
- incentive pay,
- incitement,
- inducement,
- instigate,
- interest,
- invitation,
- kickback,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- liberality,
- lubricate,
- lure,
- oil,
- palm oil,
- pay off,
- payment,
- payoff,
- payola,
- percentage,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- persuasive,
- pourboire,
- premium,
- profit,
- protection,
- provocation,
- purchase,
- reach,
- reward,
- salve,
- soften up,
- something extra,
- sop,
- sportula,
- square,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- suborn,
- sweeten,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- take care of,
- tamper with,
- tickle the palm,
- tip,
- whet
- encouragement
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- the expression of approval and support
- the feeling of being encouraged related words >
- abetment,
- advocacy,
- aegis,
- aid,
- aid and comfort,
- animating,
- animation,
- assurance,
- auspices,
- backing,
- bait,
- boost,
- bribe,
- care,
- carrot,
- championship,
- charity,
- cheering,
- comfort,
- condolence,
- consolation,
- countenance,
- easement,
- emboldening,
- exhortation,
- exhorting,
- favor,
- fillip,
- fosterage,
- goading,
- goodwill,
- guidance,
- heartening,
- help,
- incentive,
- incitement,
- inciting,
- inducement,
- insistence,
- inspiration,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- inspiritment,
- instance,
- interest,
- invitation,
- lure,
- needling,
- patronage,
- payment,
- pep talk,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- profit,
- promoting,
- promotion,
- provocation,
- reassurance,
- reassuring,
- relief,
- reward,
- seconding,
- shred of comfort,
- solace,
- solacement,
- sponsorship,
- spur,
- spurring,
- stimulating,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- support,
- supporting,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- sympathy,
- tutelage,
- urging,
- whet
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- advantageous,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- banausic,
- binder,
- breadwinning,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- compensating,
- compensative,
- compensatory,
- debt service,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- deposit,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- fat,
- gainful,
- good,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- liquidation,
- lucrative,
- moneymaking,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- prepayment,
- productive,
- profitable,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- remunerative,
- reparative,
- repaying,
- retirement,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- rewardful,
- rewarding,
- satisfaction,
- satisfying,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- solvent,
- sound,
- spot cash,
- weekly payments,
- well-paying,
- worthwhile
- compensation
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- something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors related words >
- alienation,
- amends,
- atonement,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- base pay,
- blame-shifting,
- blood money,
- comeuppance,
- composition,
- compromise,
- consideration,
- correction,
- damages,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- desert,
- deserts,
- dismissal wage,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- earnings,
- emotional insulation,
- escalator clause,
- escalator plan,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- expiation,
- expiatory offering,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- financial remuneration,
- fixing,
- flight,
- gross income,
- guaranteed annual wage,
- guerdon,
- hire,
- honorarium,
- income,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- isolation,
- just deserts,
- living wage,
- making amends,
- making good,
- making right,
- making up,
- meed,
- mending,
- minimum wage,
- negativism,
- net income,
- overcompensation,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- pay,
- pay and allowances,
- paying back,
- payment,
- payroll,
- peace offering,
- penal retribution,
- penalization,
- penalty,
- penance,
- piaculum,
- portal-to-portal pay,
- price,
- projection,
- propitiation,
- psychotaxis,
- punishment,
- purchasing power,
- quittance,
- rationalization,
- real wages,
- reclamation,
- recompense,
- rectification,
- redemption,
- redress,
- refund,
- reimbursement,
- remedy,
- remuneration,
- repair,
- repairing,
- reparation,
- repayment,
- reprisal,
- requital,
- requitement,
- resistance,
- restitution,
- retribution,
- return,
- revenge,
- reward,
- salary,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- severance pay,
- sliding scale,
- smart money,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- solatium,
- squaring,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- take-home,
- take-home pay,
- taxable income,
- total compensation,
- troubleshooting,
- wage,
- wage control,
- wage freeze,
- wage reduction,
- wage rollback,
- wage scale,
- wages,
- wages after deductions,
- wages after taxes,
- wergild,
- what is due,
- what is merited,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- administration,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- binder,
- budgeting,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- costing,
- costing-out,
- debit,
- debiting,
- debt service,
- deficit spending,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- deposit,
- disbursement,
- discharge,
- dispensation,
- dispersion,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- distribution,
- dole,
- doling,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- expenditure,
- giving out,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- issuance,
- liquidation,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- passing around,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- prepayment,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- scheduling,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- spending,
- spot cash,
- weekly payments
- Trinkgeld,
- ambrosia,
- artificial sweetener,
- bait,
- blackstrap,
- bonus,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- calcium cyclamate,
- cane syrup,
- carrot,
- clover honey,
- comb honey,
- consideration,
- corn syrup,
- cyclamates,
- donative,
- double time,
- edulcoration,
- encouragement,
- fee,
- fillip,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- honey,
- honeycomb,
- honeydew,
- honeypot,
- honorarium,
- incentive,
- incentive pay,
- incitement,
- inducement,
- interest,
- invitation,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- liberality,
- lure,
- maple syrup,
- molasses,
- nectar,
- palm oil,
- payment,
- percentage,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- persuasive,
- pourboire,
- premium,
- profit,
- provocation,
- reward,
- saccharification,
- saccharin,
- salve,
- sodium cyclamate,
- something extra,
- sorghum,
- sportula,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- sugar,
- sugar-making,
- sugaring off,
- sweetening,
- sweets,
- syrup,
- tip,
- treacle,
- whet
- unconcern
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- a feeling of lack of concern related words >
- accidia,
- acedia,
- aloofness,
- apathy,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- benumbedness,
- blah,
- blahs,
- boredom,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- comatoseness,
- detachment,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dispassion,
- disregard,
- disregardfulness,
- dullness,
- easygoingness,
- heartlessness,
- hebetude,
- heedlessness,
- hopelessness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- inappetence,
- inattention,
- incuriosity,
- incuriousness,
- indifference,
- indifferentism,
- indifferentness,
- indiscrimination,
- inexcitability,
- insouciance,
- intellectual inertia,
- lack of affect,
- lack of appetite,
- lack of interest,
- lackadaisicalness,
- languidness,
- lassitude,
- lethargicalness,
- lethargy,
- listlessness,
- mindlessness,
- negligence,
- nonchalance,
- numbness,
- offhandedness,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- phlegm,
- phlegmaticalness,
- phlegmaticness,
- plucklessness,
- pococurantism,
- recklessness,
- regardlessness,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- sloth,
- sluggishness,
- sopor,
- soporifousness,
- spiritlessness,
- spunklessness,
- stolidity,
- stupefaction,
- stupor,
- supineness,
- torpidity,
- torpidness,
- torpor,
- unanxiousness,
- uninquisitiveness,
- uninterestedness,
- unmindfulness,
- unsolicitousness,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness
- viable
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- capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus" related words >
- OK,
- aboveground,
- acceptable,
- achievable,
- actable,
- activating,
- admissible,
- agreeable,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- all right,
- alright,
- among the living,
- animate,
- animated,
- animating,
- animative,
- applicable,
- attainable,
- bracing,
- breathing,
- capable of life,
- compassable,
- conscious,
- doable,
- endowed with life,
- energizing,
- enlivened,
- enlivening,
- exhilarating,
- exhilarative,
- existent,
- feasible,
- good enough,
- in the flesh,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- invigorating,
- invigorative,
- live,
- living,
- long-lived,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulatable,
- negotiable,
- of concern,
- of concernment,
- of consequence,
- of interest,
- of moment,
- of note,
- of significance,
- of weight,
- okay,
- operable,
- operatable,
- overcomable,
- passable,
- performable,
- possible,
- practicable,
- practical,
- quick,
- quickening,
- realizable,
- reasonable,
- rousing,
- sensible,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- superable,
- supportable,
- surmountable,
- sustainable,
- tenable,
- tenacious of life,
- tonic,
- unexceptionable,
- unobjectionable,
- very much alive,
- vital,
- vitalizing,
- vivified,
- workable,
- zoetic
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