Related Words:
- alibi,
- also-ran,
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- apology,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bidet,
- blind,
- booby trap,
- candidate,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- cavalry horse,
- cloak,
- color,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- device,
- draft horse,
- dray horse,
- driving horse,
- dud,
- excuse,
- facade,
- favorite son,
- feint,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- front,
- gigster,
- gloss,
- guise,
- hack,
- hackney,
- handle,
- hopeful,
- hunter,
- jument,
- lame duck,
- lame excuse,
- lead,
- leader,
- locus standi,
- lurking hole,
- mask,
- mount,
- office seeker,
- ostensible motive,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- plow horse,
- pole horse,
- political hopeful,
- polo pony,
- poor excuse,
- post-horse,
- presidential timber,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- remount,
- rider,
- riding horse,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- rouncy,
- running mate,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- screen,
- semblance,
- shadowing,
- shaft horse,
- sham,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- surveillance,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- trap,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- workhorse
- insincerity
collapse - the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning
- explanation
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- thought that makes something comprehensible
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident" related words >
- abstraction,
- accomplishment,
- account,
- allegorization,
- analysis,
- answer,
- ascertainment,
- body of theory,
- case,
- case in point,
- cause,
- clarification,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- clearing up,
- commentary,
- construction,
- cracking,
- criticism,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- definition,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- denouement,
- description,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- determination,
- disclosure,
- disentanglement,
- doctrinairism,
- doctrinality,
- doctrinarity,
- editing,
- elucidation,
- emblem,
- emendation,
- end,
- end result,
- enlightenment,
- euhemerism,
- example,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exegesis,
- exemplar,
- exemplification,
- explication,
- exponent,
- expose,
- exposition,
- expounding,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- grounds,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- instance,
- interpretation,
- issue,
- justification,
- key,
- light,
- meaning,
- mere theory,
- motive,
- object lesson,
- outcome,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- purgation,
- purging,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason why,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- relevant instance,
- representative,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- restoration,
- result,
- riddling,
- signification,
- simplification,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- speculation,
- stated cause,
- symbol,
- tentative explanation,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- theoretic,
- theoretical basis,
- theoretical structure,
- theoretics,
- theoria,
- theoric,
- theorization,
- theory,
- type,
- typical example,
- underlying reason,
- unified theory,
- unlocking,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- vindication,
- working,
- working-out
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- act,
- act a part,
- acting,
- adulterated,
- affect,
- affectation,
- affected,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ape,
- apocryphal,
- apology,
- appearance,
- artificial,
- artificiality,
- assume,
- assumed,
- attitudinizing,
- bastard,
- blagueur,
- blazon,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- bluffing,
- bogus,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- brummagem,
- burlesque,
- cant,
- caricature,
- charlatan,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- clinquant,
- cloak,
- color,
- colorable,
- colored,
- coloring,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover up,
- cover-up,
- create,
- daring,
- dash,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- device,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissemble,
- dissembling,
- dissimulate,
- dissimulation,
- distorted,
- do a bit,
- dramatics,
- dramatize,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eclat,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- etalage,
- excuse,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- faker,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsified,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- farce,
- feign,
- feigned,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figure,
- flair,
- flam,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- forged,
- forgery,
- four-flush,
- four-flushing,
- fourflusher,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- fraudulent,
- front,
- gammon,
- garbled,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- histrionics,
- histrionize,
- hoax,
- hokey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocritical,
- hypocriticalness,
- illegitimate,
- image,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- invent,
- junk,
- junky,
- lame excuse,
- let on,
- let on like,
- lie,
- locus standi,
- made-up,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make-believe,
- malingerer,
- man-made,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mislead,
- mock,
- mountebank,
- ostensible motive,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overact,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- paste,
- pecksniffery,
- perverted,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarized,
- plaster,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play possum,
- playact,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- poser,
- poseur,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretender,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- profess,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- pseudo,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- putting on airs,
- quack,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refuge,
- representation,
- ringer,
- rip-off,
- saltimbanco,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- screen,
- seeming,
- self-styled,
- sell,
- semblance,
- shammer,
- shoddy,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- spoof,
- spurious,
- staginess,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- supposititious,
- swindle,
- synthetic,
- theatrics,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- travesty,
- trick,
- tug the heartstrings,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unnaturalness,
- unreal,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- warped,
- wear,
- whited sepulcher,
- window dressing
- apology
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- a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; "he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess"
- a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly related words >
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- admission,
- advocating,
- advocation,
- alibi,
- amends,
- apologetic,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apologies,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- atonement,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- bitterness,
- blind,
- breast-beating,
- casuistry,
- championing,
- change of heart,
- cloak,
- color,
- concession,
- confession,
- contention,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- controversy,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deathbed repentance,
- defense,
- device,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- espousal,
- excuse,
- extenuation,
- facade,
- feint,
- flyting,
- front,
- gloss,
- grief,
- guise,
- handle,
- hassle,
- heartfelt apology,
- hubbub,
- justification,
- lame excuse,
- litigation,
- locus standi,
- logomachy,
- mask,
- mea culpa,
- ostensible motive,
- palliation,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- penance,
- penitence,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- poor excuse,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- redress,
- reformation,
- refuge,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- reparation,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rhubarb,
- saeta,
- satisfaction,
- screen,
- semblance,
- set-to,
- sham,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- support,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- verbal engagement,
- war of words,
- wearing a hairshirt,
- wistfulness,
- wrangling
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- apparition,
- artificial,
- assume,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bluff,
- bogus,
- brainchild,
- brummagem,
- bubble,
- charade,
- chimera,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cover up,
- delirium,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eidolon,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- fabulous,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- feign,
- feigned,
- fiction,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figment,
- figmental,
- four-flush,
- gammon,
- garbled,
- hallucination,
- idle fancy,
- illegitimate,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- imitation,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- junky,
- legendary,
- let on,
- let on like,
- maggot,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make like,
- man-made,
- mock,
- myth,
- mythic,
- mythicized,
- mythified,
- mythological,
- nonactual,
- nonfactual,
- nonrealistic,
- pageant,
- perverted,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- profess,
- pseudo,
- put on,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- romance,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- sick fancy,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- thick-coming fancies,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- trip,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- vapor,
- vision,
- warped,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams
- faculty
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- one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind related words >
- ability,
- ableness,
- absolute power,
- absolutism,
- adequacy,
- adroitness,
- appurtenance,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- authority,
- authorization,
- bent,
- birthright,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capableness,
- capacity,
- claim,
- cleverness,
- competence,
- competency,
- conjugal right,
- consciousness,
- constituted authority,
- delegated authority,
- demand,
- department,
- dexterity,
- discipline,
- dispensation,
- divine right,
- dower,
- dowry,
- droit,
- due,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- facility,
- faculties,
- fitness,
- flair,
- forte,
- function,
- genius,
- gift,
- inalienable right,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- instinct,
- intellectual gifts,
- intellectuals,
- interest,
- jus divinum,
- knack,
- lawful authority,
- leaning,
- legal authority,
- legitimacy,
- liberty,
- long suit,
- makings,
- members,
- metier,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- natural right,
- nose,
- parts,
- penchant,
- permission,
- personnel,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- predilection,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- privilege,
- proclivity,
- professorate,
- professordom,
- professoriate,
- professors,
- proficiency,
- propensity,
- proper claim,
- property,
- property right,
- qualification,
- quality,
- regality,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- royal prerogative,
- sanction,
- school,
- senses,
- skill,
- speciality,
- staff,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- sufficiency,
- susceptibility,
- talent,
- talents,
- the goods,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- the stuff,
- title,
- turn,
- vested authority,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- vicarious authority,
- what it takes,
- wits
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- acting
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- the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
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