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emotionalize
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related words >
act
,
act as foil
,
appear
,
barnstorm
,
be theatrical
,
come out
,
emote
,
get top billing
,
gush
,
ham it up
,
make a scene
,
mime
,
pantomime
,
patter
,
perform
,
play
,
play the lead
,
playact
,
register
,
sentimentalize
,
sketch
,
slobber over
,
slop over
,
star
,
steal the show
,
stooge
,
theatricalize
,
tread the boards
,
troupe
,
upstage
giveaway
collapse
an unintentional disclosure
a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
babbling
,
ballet
,
best
,
betrayal
,
blabbering
,
blabbing
,
bomb
,
bottom
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
charade
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
communication leak
,
critical success
,
cut
,
daytime serial
,
dead giveaway
,
dialogue
,
divulgation
,
divulgement
,
divulgence
,
divulging
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
evulgation
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
flop
,
gasser
,
half-price
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
indiscretion
,
leak
,
legitimate drama
,
letting out
,
lowest
,
marked down
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
obvious clue
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
reduced
,
review
,
revue
,
rock-bottom
,
sacrificial
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
show
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
slashed
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
telltale
,
telltale sign
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
unwitting disclosure
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
vaudeville
collapse
a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
related words >
Broadway
,
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque
,
burlesque show
,
carnival
,
charade
,
circus
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
critical success
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
entertainment industry
,
epic theater
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
flop
,
gasser
,
giveaway
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
legit
,
legitimate drama
,
legitimate stage
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
off Broadway
,
off-off-Broadway
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playland
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
repertory drama
,
review
,
revue
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
show
,
show biz
,
show business
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
stage world
,
stagedom
,
stageland
,
stock
,
straight drama
,
strawhat
,
strawhat circuit
,
success
,
summer stock
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
the boards
,
the footlights
,
the scenes
,
the stage
,
the theater
,
theater of cruelty
,
theater world
,
theatromania
,
theatrophobia
,
total theater
,
variety
,
variety show
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
buncombe
collapse
related words >
Washingtonese
,
adulation
,
balls
,
baloney
,
big talk
,
bilge
,
blague
,
blah
,
blah-blah
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
bop
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
claptrap
,
compliment
,
crap
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fancy talk
,
fawning
,
federalese
,
fine talk
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flapdoodle
,
flattery
,
flimflam
,
gammon
,
gas
,
gobbledygook
,
grease
,
guff
,
gup
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
hogwash
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hooey
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
incense
,
jiggery-pokery
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
official jargon
,
officialese
,
oil
,
palaver
,
piffle
,
political doubletalk
,
poppycock
,
praise
,
pretty lies
,
pussyfooting
,
rot
,
scat
,
shit
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
tall story
,
tall talk
,
tommyrot
,
tripe
,
wheedling
,
wind
compliment
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a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration
say something to someone that expresses praise; "He complimented her on her last physics paper"
express respect or esteem for
related words >
TL
,
acclaim
,
accolade
,
adulate
,
adulation
,
applaud
,
benevolence
,
beslobber
,
beslubber
,
best wishes
,
blandish
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
bless
,
blessing
,
blessings
,
boon
,
bouquet
,
bunkum
,
cajole
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
commend
,
commendation
,
compliments
,
conceit
,
congratulate
,
congratulation
,
congratulations
,
encomium
,
eulogy
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
favor
,
fawn upon
,
fawning
,
felicitate
,
felicitation
,
flatter
,
flattering remark
,
flattery
,
give a bouquet
,
good wishes
,
gratulate
,
gratulation
,
grease
,
greetings
,
hail
,
hand it to
,
homage
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
honor
,
incense
,
largess
,
laud
,
laudation
,
make fair weather
,
oil
,
oil the tongue
,
orchids
,
palaver
,
pay a compliment
,
polite commendation
,
posy
,
praise
,
present
,
pretty lies
,
recommend
,
regards
,
rejoice with
,
respects
,
salutations
,
slobber over
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
take off
,
trade-last
,
tribute
,
wheedle
,
wheedling
pass for
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
answer for
,
ape
,
be accepted for
,
be regarded as
,
be taken as
,
copy
,
count for
,
do
,
enact
,
go as
,
go for
,
impersonate
,
make false pretenses
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
pantomime
,
pass as
,
perform
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve as
,
take off
laconic
collapse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
brief
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
docked
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
indisposed to talk
,
mum
,
mute
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
truncated
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
ballet
collapse
a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
music written for a ballet
related words >
Broadway musical
,
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Singspiel
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballad opera
,
ballet divertissement
,
ballroom dancing
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
charade
,
choreodrama
,
choreography
,
chorus show
,
classical ballet
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy ballet
,
comedy drama
,
comic opera
,
critical success
,
dance
,
dance drama
,
dancing
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
flop
,
gasser
,
giveaway
,
grand opera
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
hoofing
,
improvisational drama
,
legitimate drama
,
light opera
,
lyric drama
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
modern ballet
,
modern dance
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical
,
musical comedy
,
musical revue
,
musical stage
,
musical theater
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
opera
,
opera ballet
,
opera bouffe
,
opera buffa
,
operetta
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
review
,
revue
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
show
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
song-and-dance act
,
song-play
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
tap dancing
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
terpsichore
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
hash up
collapse
related words >
ball up
,
bitch
,
bitch up
,
bobble
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bonehead into it
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
cook
,
drop a brick
,
flub
,
foul up
,
goof
,
goof up
,
gum up
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
muck up
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
screw up
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl up
play the game
collapse
related words >
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
behave
,
conform
,
do right
,
fall in with
,
fall into line
,
fit in
,
follow the crowd
,
follow the fashion
,
follow the rule
,
get in line
,
go through channels
,
keep in step
,
observe the proprieties
,
pass muster
,
play fair
,
stay in line
,
toe the mark
exert
collapse
put to use; "exert one's power or influence"
make a great effort at a mental or physical task; "exert oneself"
related words >
apply
,
attempt
,
bring into play
,
bring to bear
,
bust a gut
,
do with
,
employ
,
endeavor
,
exercise
,
expend
,
go all out
,
handle
,
make an effort
,
make use of
,
manage
,
manipulate
,
operate
,
play
,
ply
,
practice
,
push
,
put forth
,
put out
,
strain
,
strive
,
struggle
,
throw
,
toil
,
try
,
use
,
utilize
,
wield
,
work
emote
collapse
give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role
related words >
act
,
act as foil
,
appear
,
barnstorm
,
be theatrical
,
carry on
,
come out
,
emotionalize
,
get top billing
,
gush
,
ham it up
,
make a scene
,
mime
,
pantomime
,
patter
,
perform
,
play
,
play the lead
,
playact
,
rage
,
rant
,
register
,
sentimentalize
,
sketch
,
slobber over
,
slop over
,
star
,
steal the show
,
stooge
,
storm
,
take on
,
theatricalize
,
tread the boards
,
troupe
,
upstage
skit
collapse
a short theatrical episode
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
act
,
afterpiece
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
bit
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
charade
,
chaser
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
critical success
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
epilogue
,
exode
,
exodus
,
experimental theater
,
expository scene
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
finale
,
flop
,
gasser
,
giveaway
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
hoke act
,
improvisational drama
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
legitimate drama
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
number
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
review
,
revue
,
routine
,
scene
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
show
,
shtick
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
song and dance
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
stand-up comedy act
,
straight drama
,
striptease
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
turn
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
finis
collapse
related words >
Z
,
apodosis
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
coda
,
conclusion
,
consummation
,
crack of doom
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
doom
,
effect
,
end
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
expiration
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finish
,
goal
,
izzard
,
last
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
omega
,
payoff
,
period
,
peroration
,
quietus
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
swan song
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
windup
omega
collapse
the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation
related words >
Z
,
apodosis
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
coda
,
conclusion
,
consummation
,
crack of doom
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
doom
,
effect
,
end
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
expiration
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
goal
,
izzard
,
last
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
payoff
,
period
,
peroration
,
quietus
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
swan song
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
windup
izzard
collapse
related words >
Z
,
apodosis
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
coda
,
conclusion
,
consummation
,
crack of doom
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
doom
,
effect
,
end
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
expiration
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
goal
,
last
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
omega
,
payoff
,
period
,
peroration
,
quietus
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
swan song
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
windup
charade
collapse
a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
absurdity
,
anagram
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
bearing
,
beck
,
beckon
,
body language
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
carriage
,
chironomy
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
conundrum
,
critical success
,
dactylology
,
daytime serial
,
deaf-and-dumb alphabet
,
dialogue
,
disguise
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
dumb show
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
farce
,
flop
,
gasser
,
gesticulation
,
gesture
,
gesture language
,
giveaway
,
hand signal
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
kinesics
,
legitimate drama
,
logogriph
,
make-believe
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
mockery
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
motion
,
movement
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
parody
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
poise
,
pose
,
posture
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
rebus
,
review
,
revue
,
riddle
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
show
,
shrug
,
sign language
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
stance
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
travesty
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
act as
collapse
function as or act like; "This heap of stones will act as a barrier"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act out
,
ape
,
copy
,
do
,
do duty
,
enact
,
function
,
function as
,
impersonate
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
officiate
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
perform as
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve
,
take off
,
work as
polemic
collapse
a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
of or involving dispute or controversy
related words >
Kilkenny cats
,
Philadelphia lawyer
,
altercation
,
apologetics
,
apologia
,
apologist
,
apology
,
arguer
,
argufier
,
argument
,
argumentation
,
bicker
,
bickering
,
blood feud
,
brawl
,
broil
,
casuist
,
casuistry
,
cat-and-dog life
,
combat
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contest
,
contestation
,
controversialist
,
controversy
,
cut and thrust
,
debate
,
debater
,
defense
,
disceptator
,
disputant
,
disputation
,
dispute
,
donnybrook
,
donnybrook fair
,
embroilment
,
enmity
,
feud
,
fight
,
fighting
,
fliting
,
flyting
,
fracas
,
fuss
,
guardhouse lawyer
,
hassle
,
hostility
,
hubbub
,
imbroglio
,
litigation
,
logomacher
,
logomachist
,
logomachy
,
mooter
,
open quarrel
,
paper war
,
passage of arms
,
pilpulist
,
polemicist
,
polemics
,
polemist
,
quarrel
,
quarreling
,
quarrelsomeness
,
rhubarb
,
scrapping
,
set-to
,
sharp words
,
slanging match
,
snarl
,
spat
,
squabble
,
squabbling
,
strife
,
struggle
,
tiff
,
tussle
,
vendetta
,
verbal engagement
,
war
,
war of words
,
warfare
,
words
,
wrangle
,
wrangler
,
wrangling
twosome
collapse
related words >
both
,
bout
,
brace
,
contest
,
couple
,
couplet
,
decathlon
,
distich
,
double harness
,
double-header
,
doubles
,
doublet
,
duad
,
duet
,
duo
,
dyad
,
event
,
foursome
,
game
,
games of chance
,
go
,
match
,
mates
,
meet
,
pair
,
pentathlon
,
play
,
play-off
,
race
,
runoff
,
set of two
,
singles
,
span
,
sport
,
team
,
the two
,
threesome
,
twain
,
two
,
yoke
codicil
collapse
a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
addendum
,
affix
,
afterthought
,
allonge
,
appendix
,
attested copy
,
back matter
,
bequeathal
,
bequest
,
chorus
,
coda
,
colophon
,
commentary
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
devise
,
double take
,
dying words
,
enclitic
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
infix
,
inheritance
,
interlineation
,
interpolation
,
last words
,
legacy
,
marginalia
,
note
,
parting shot
,
peroration
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
prefix
,
probate
,
proclitic
,
refrain
,
rider
,
scholia
,
second thought
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
subscript
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
tag
,
tail
,
testament
,
will
simulate
collapse
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act like
,
adopt
,
affect
,
ape
,
appear like
,
approach
,
appropriate
,
approximate
,
assume
,
be like
,
be redolent of
,
bear resemblance
,
bluff
,
borrow
,
bring to mind
,
call to mind
,
call up
,
chorus
,
come close
,
come near
,
compare with
,
copy
,
correspond
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
crib
,
derive from
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
ditto
,
do
,
do a bit
,
do like
,
dramatize
,
echo
,
evoke
,
fake
,
favor
,
feature
,
feign
,
follow
,
forge
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
go like
,
histrionize
,
hoke
,
hoke up
,
imitate
,
infringe
,
let on
,
let on like
,
look like
,
make a pretense
,
make like
,
make out like
,
make use of
,
match
,
mimic
,
mirror
,
mock
,
near
,
nearly reproduce
,
not tell apart
,
overact
,
parallel
,
partake of
,
pirate
,
plagiarize
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pose
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
reecho
,
reflect
,
remind one of
,
repeat
,
resemble
,
savor of
,
seem like
,
sham
,
smack of
,
sound like
,
stack up with
,
steal
,
suggest
,
take
,
take after
,
take on
,
take over
,
tug the heartstrings
,
wear
plain English
collapse
related words >
austerity
,
baldness
,
bareness
,
candor
,
clarity
,
clear-cutness
,
clearness
,
coherence
,
common speech
,
connectedness
,
consistency
,
crystallinity
,
definition
,
directness
,
distinctness
,
explicitness
,
frankness
,
homespun
,
household words
,
leanness
,
limpidity
,
lucidity
,
matter-of-factness
,
naturalness
,
openness
,
pellucidity
,
perspicuity
,
plain speaking
,
plain speech
,
plain style
,
plain words
,
plainness
,
prosaicness
,
prosiness
,
restrainedness
,
rustic style
,
severity
,
simpleness
,
simplicity
,
soberness
,
spareness
,
starkness
,
straightforwardness
,
structure
,
transparency
,
transpicuity
,
unadorned style
,
unadornedness
,
unaffectedness
,
unambiguousness
,
unequivocalness
,
unimaginativeness
,
unmistakableness
,
unpoeticalness
,
vernacular
extravaganza
collapse
any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
blatancy
,
bomb
,
brazenness
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
canard
,
charade
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
colorfulness
,
comedy drama
,
concoction
,
critical success
,
crudeness
,
dash
,
daytime serial
,
dazzle
,
dazzlingness
,
dialogue
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
experimental theater
,
exposition
,
extravagance
,
extravagation
,
fable
,
fabrication
,
failure
,
fiction
,
figment
,
flagrancy
,
flamboyance
,
flashiness
,
flop
,
forgery
,
gaiety
,
garishness
,
gasser
,
gaudery
,
gaudiness
,
giveaway
,
glare
,
glitter
,
gorgeousness
,
happening
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
invention
,
jauntiness
,
jazziness
,
legitimate drama
,
loudness
,
luridness
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
meretriciousness
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
myth
,
obtrusiveness
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panache
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
production
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
review
,
revue
,
romance
,
sensational play
,
sensationalism
,
serial
,
shamelessness
,
show
,
showiness
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
spectacular
,
sportiness
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
tawdriness
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
vulgarness
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
overact
collapse
exaggerate one's acting
related words >
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
carry too far
,
counterfeit
,
declaim
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
exaggerate
,
exhaust
,
fake
,
feign
,
go overboard
,
go to extremes
,
go too far
,
grimace
,
ham
,
ham it up
,
histrionize
,
know no bounds
,
make out like
,
mug
,
out-herod Herod
,
overcarry
,
overdevelop
,
overdo
,
overdramatize
,
overdrive
,
overelaborate
,
overemphasize
,
overexercise
,
overexert
,
overexpend
,
overindulge
,
overlabor
,
overplay
,
overreact
,
overspend
,
overstrain
,
overstress
,
overstudy
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overtrain
,
overuse
,
overwork
,
pass all bounds
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
playact
,
pretend
,
protest too much
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
rant
,
roar
,
sham
,
simulate
,
spout
,
throw away
,
tug the heartstrings
,
underact
,
wear
twiddle
collapse
a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled her thumbs while waiting for the interview"
related words >
babble
,
cackle
,
chat
,
chatter
,
come in contact
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
do nothing
,
feel
,
feel of
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget
,
fidget with
,
finger
,
finger with
,
flick
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
fribble
,
frivol
,
gab
,
handle
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
juggle
,
kid around
,
loiter
,
manipulate
,
mess around
,
mess with
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
monkey with
,
palm
,
palpate
,
paw
,
piddle
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
ply
,
poke at
,
potter
,
prattle
,
prod
,
putter
,
rattle
,
smatter
,
tap
,
thumb
,
tinker
,
touch
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twirl
,
waste time
,
wield
,
wiggle
,
yak
pun
collapse
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
quip
collapse
related words >
Parthian shot
,
ad lib
,
aphorism
,
apophthegm
,
apothegm
,
back answer
,
barb
,
be merry with
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
caustic remark
,
cavil
,
chestnut
,
comeback
,
conceit
,
crack
,
crack a joke
,
crack wise
,
cut
,
cutting remark
,
dig
,
dodge
,
double entendre
,
drollery
,
dump
,
epigram
,
equivoque
,
facetiae
,
flash of wit
,
fleer
,
fleer at
,
flight of wit
,
flout
,
foolery
,
fun
,
gag
,
gibe
,
gibe at
,
gibing retort
,
happy thought
,
jab
,
jape
,
jeer
,
jest
,
jesuitism
,
joke
,
josh
,
kid
,
kid around
,
leg-pull
,
make a funny
,
make fun
,
make fun of
,
mock
,
mot
,
nasty crack
,
parting shot
,
persiflage
,
play of wit
,
play on words
,
pleasantry
,
poke fun at
,
pun
,
put-down
,
put-on
,
quibble
,
quiddity
,
quillet
,
quips and cranks
,
quirk
,
quodlibet
,
repartee
,
retort
,
ridicule
,
riposte
,
rude reproach
,
sally
,
scintillate
,
scintillation
,
scoff
,
scoff at
,
scurrility
,
short answer
,
shuffle
,
slam
,
slap
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
snappy comeback
,
sparkle
,
stroke of wit
,
swipe
,
taunt
,
turn of thought
,
twit
,
utter a mot
,
verbal thrust
,
wheeze
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
,
yak
play with fire
collapse
related words >
bell the cat
,
brave
,
chance
,
court danger
,
court destruction
,
dare
,
defy danger
,
face up to
,
flirt with death
,
forget the odds
,
gamble
,
go for broke
,
hazard
,
play Russian roulette
,
risk
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
take a chance
,
take chances
,
tempt Providence
tempt Providence
collapse
related words >
bell the cat
,
brave
,
chance
,
court danger
,
court destruction
,
dare
,
defy danger
,
face up to
,
flirt with death
,
forget the odds
,
gamble
,
go for broke
,
hazard
,
play Russian roulette
,
play with fire
,
risk
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
take a chance
,
take chances
wordless
collapse
related words >
anaudic
,
aphasic
,
aphonic
,
breathless
,
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-lipped
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
dumbfounded
,
dumbstricken
,
dumbstruck
,
economical of words
,
implicit
,
implied
,
inarticulate
,
indisposed to talk
,
inferred
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
stricken dumb
,
tacit
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
tongueless
,
uncommunicative
,
undeclared
,
understood
,
unexpressed
,
unloquacious
,
unmentioned
,
unproclaimed
,
unpronounced
,
unpublished
,
unrecorded
,
unsaid
,
unspoken
,
unsung
,
untalkative
,
untalked-of
,
untold
,
unuttered
,
unvoiced
,
unwritten
,
voiceless
,
word-bound
situation comedy
collapse
a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life
a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life
related words >
Grand Guignol
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Passion play
,
Thalia
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
arlequinade
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
black comedy
,
bomb
,
broad comedy
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque
,
burlesque show
,
burletta
,
camp
,
charade
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedie bouffe
,
comedie larmoyante
,
comedie rosse
,
comedietta
,
comedy
,
comedy ballet
,
comedy drama
,
comedy of humors
,
comedy of ideas
,
comedy of intrigue
,
comedy of manners
,
comedy of situation
,
comedy relief
,
comic muse
,
comic opera
,
comic relief
,
critical success
,
dark comedy
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
documentary drama
,
domestic comedy
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
exode
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
farce
,
farce comedy
,
flop
,
gasser
,
genteel comedy
,
giveaway
,
happening
,
harlequinade
,
high camp
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
legitimate drama
,
light comedy
,
low camp
,
low comedy
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
mime
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
music drama
,
musical
,
musical comedy
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
opera
,
opera buffa
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
raw comedy
,
realistic comedy
,
review
,
revue
,
romantic comedy
,
satyr play
,
sensational play
,
sentimental comedy
,
serial
,
show
,
sitcom
,
sketch
,
skit
,
slapstick
,
slapstick comedy
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
tragicomedy
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
taciturn
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habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
brief
,
brooding
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-lipped
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
docked
,
dour
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
truncated
,
uncommunicative
,
unexpressive
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
gum up
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stick together as if with gum; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up"
related words >
ball up
,
bitch
,
bitch up
,
blow
,
bobble
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bonehead into it
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
bungle
,
cook
,
crab
,
cramp
,
crimp
,
drop a brick
,
flub
,
foul up
,
goof
,
goof up
,
gum
,
hash up
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
muck up
,
mucker
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
screw up
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl up
command of language
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related words >
affectation
,
articulateness
,
command of words
,
effective style
,
eloquence
,
eloquent tongue
,
exaggeration
,
expression
,
expression of ideas
,
expressiveness
,
facundity
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
form of speech
,
gift of expression
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
graphicness
,
inflation
,
literary style
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
meaningfulness
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
oratory
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
rhetoric
,
sense of language
,
silver tongue
,
slickness
,
smoothness
,
strain
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
trick
,
vein
,
vividness
,
way
soap opera
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a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
antimasque
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
bathos
,
bleeding heart
,
bomb
,
broadcast
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
canned show
,
charade
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
cloyingness
,
comedy drama
,
commercial
,
commercial program
,
critical success
,
daytime serial
,
dialogue
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
electrical transcription
,
epic theater
,
experimental theater
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
flop
,
gasser
,
giveaway
,
goo
,
happening
,
hearts-and-flowers
,
hit
,
hit show
,
improvisational drama
,
legitimate drama
,
masque
,
maudlinness
,
mawkishness
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
mush
,
mushiness
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
namby-pamby
,
namby-pambyism
,
namby-pambyness
,
network show
,
newscast
,
nostalgia
,
nostomania
,
opera
,
oversentimentalism
,
oversentimentality
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
problem play
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
radio fare
,
radiobroadcast
,
rebroadcast
,
rerun
,
review
,
revue
,
romanticism
,
sensational play
,
sentiment
,
sentimentalism
,
sentimentality
,
serial
,
show
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
slop
,
sloppiness
,
slush
,
soap
,
sob story
,
sociodrama
,
sound effects
,
spectacle
,
sportscast
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
sustainer
,
sweetness and light
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
taped program
,
tearjerker
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
behave
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behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
related words >
acquit
,
act
,
act toward
,
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
bear
,
behave toward
,
carry
,
comport
,
conduct
,
control
,
cope with
,
deal by
,
deal with
,
demean
,
deport
,
direct
,
disport
,
do
,
do by
,
do right
,
function
,
go on
,
handle
,
make
,
make as if
,
manage
,
misbehave
,
move
,
operate
,
perform
,
play
,
play the game
,
practice
,
proceed
,
quit
,
react
,
respond to
,
serve
,
take
,
treat
,
use
,
work
snarl up
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related words >
ball up
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
complicate
,
confound
,
confuse
,
cook
,
embrangle
,
entangle
,
foul up
,
fumble
,
garble
,
gum up
,
hash up
,
implicate
,
involve
,
jumble
,
knot
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
mix up
,
muck up
,
muddle
,
perplex
,
pi
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
ramify
,
ravel
,
riffle
,
scramble
,
screw up
,
shuffle
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl
,
tangle
,
tumble
wrangling
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related words >
Kilkenny cats
,
aggressive
,
altercation
,
apologetics
,
apologia
,
apology
,
argument
,
argumentation
,
bellicose
,
belligerent
,
bicker
,
bickering
,
casuistry
,
cat-and-dog life
,
combat
,
combative
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contest
,
contestation
,
controversy
,
cut and thrust
,
debate
,
defense
,
disputation
,
disputatious
,
dispute
,
divisive
,
enmity
,
eristic
,
factional
,
factious
,
fighting
,
flyting
,
hassle
,
hostility
,
hubbub
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
litigation
,
litigious
,
logomachy
,
paper war
,
partisan
,
passage of arms
,
polarizing
,
polemic
,
polemics
,
pugnacious
,
quarrel
,
quarreling
,
quarrelsome
,
quarrelsomeness
,
rhubarb
,
scrapping
,
set-to
,
shrewish
,
squabbling
,
strife
,
struggle
,
verbal engagement
,
war
,
war of words
,
warfare
,
words
concise
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expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
brief
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
cogent
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
curtal
,
curtate
,
cut
,
decurtate
,
direct
,
docked
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
indisposed to talk
,
instantaneous
,
laconic
,
little
,
low
,
mum
,
mute
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
synoptic
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
transient
,
trenchant
,
truncated
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
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