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- adornment,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- beauties,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- conversion,
- ecphonesis,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- figure,
- fine writing,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- inversion,
- irony,
- litotes,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- onomatopoeia,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- oxymoron,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- purple patches,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- zeugma
- malapropism
collapse - the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- simile
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- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- regression,
- relation,
- repetition,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- chasm
collapse
- a deep opening in the earth's surface related words >
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arroyo,
- blank,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- canyon,
- cavity,
- chap,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleavage,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- clove,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- deep,
- defile,
- dell,
- depth,
- dig,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fenestra,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- inlet,
- interval,
- joint,
- kloof,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leak,
- mine,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outlet,
- overlook,
- oversight,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pit,
- pore,
- preterition,
- quarry,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- shaft,
- skip,
- slit,
- slot,
- space,
- split,
- stoma,
- throwing open,
- trench,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- well,
- workings,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss
- oversight
collapse
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something related words >
- accountability,
- administration,
- aegis,
- auspices,
- balk,
- bevue,
- blank,
- blunder,
- bossing,
- care,
- carelessness,
- charge,
- chasm,
- check,
- civil government,
- conduct,
- control,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- default,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- direction,
- discipline,
- disconformity,
- dispensation,
- disposition,
- disregard,
- empery,
- empire,
- error,
- eye,
- failure,
- false move,
- false step,
- fault,
- form of government,
- governance,
- government,
- guard,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- handling,
- hands,
- heedlessness,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- inobservance,
- intendance,
- jurisdiction,
- keeping,
- laches,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- loose thread,
- looseness,
- maintenance,
- management,
- ministry,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- mistake,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- nonadherence,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformity,
- nonfeasance,
- nonfulfillment,
- noninterference,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- omission,
- overlook,
- overlooking,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- permissiveness,
- political organization,
- polity,
- poor stewardship,
- preterition,
- procrastination,
- protection,
- protectorship,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- reign,
- remissness,
- responsibility,
- rule,
- running,
- safe hands,
- skip,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slip,
- slipup,
- sovereignty,
- stewardship,
- stumble,
- superintendence,
- superintendency,
- supervision,
- surveillance,
- sway,
- system of government,
- trip,
- tutelage,
- unobservance,
- unrigorousness,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- wing,
- wrong step
- metaphor
collapse
- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- overlook
collapse
- a high place affording a good view
- watch over; "I am overlooking her work"
- look past, fail to notice related words >
- Texas tower,
- abide with,
- accept,
- allow,
- allow for,
- autopsy,
- be big,
- be blind to,
- be caught napping,
- be caught out,
- be content with,
- be easy with,
- be inattentive,
- be neglectful,
- be negligent,
- be unwary,
- beacon,
- bear,
- bear with,
- bedevil,
- belvedere,
- bestraddle,
- bestride,
- bewitch,
- blank,
- bleachers,
- blink at,
- boss,
- bridge,
- brook,
- canvass,
- chaperon,
- chasm,
- check,
- check out,
- check over,
- check up on,
- clear,
- command,
- condone,
- conning tower,
- connive at,
- countenance,
- cut,
- cut dead,
- default,
- demonize,
- diabolize,
- discount,
- dismiss,
- disregard,
- dominate,
- endure,
- examine,
- excuse,
- face,
- face upon,
- fail,
- forget,
- forgive,
- front on,
- gallery,
- gazebo,
- give an examination,
- give no heed,
- give the go-by,
- give upon,
- gloss over,
- go over,
- grandstand,
- grin and abide,
- have,
- hear nothing,
- hear of,
- hex,
- hoodoo,
- ignore,
- indulge,
- inspect,
- jinx,
- judge not,
- keep in order,
- lapse,
- lean over backwards,
- leave out,
- leave unavenged,
- let go,
- let go by,
- let it go,
- let pass,
- let ride,
- let slide,
- let slip,
- lighthouse,
- listen to reason,
- live with,
- look at,
- look down upon,
- look out upon,
- look over,
- look right through,
- look toward,
- lookout,
- loophole,
- lose sight of,
- lose track of,
- make allowances for,
- make light of,
- make little of,
- miss,
- monitor,
- neglect,
- nod,
- not attend,
- not care for,
- not get involved,
- not heed,
- not listen,
- not notice,
- not think,
- not write off,
- obey,
- observation post,
- observatory,
- observe,
- obsess,
- omit,
- outlook,
- outtop,
- overarch,
- overhaul,
- overpass,
- oversee,
- overshadow,
- oversight,
- overtop,
- pardon,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pass under review,
- pass up,
- pay no attention,
- pay no mind,
- peanut gallery,
- peephole,
- peer at,
- permit,
- peruse,
- pharos,
- pocket the affront,
- pooh-pooh,
- pore over,
- possess,
- postmortem,
- preterition,
- put up with,
- quarterback,
- refuse to acknowledge,
- refuse to recognize,
- regard with indulgence,
- review,
- ride herd on,
- ringside,
- ringside seat,
- rise above,
- run over,
- scan,
- scrutinize,
- see both sides,
- see nothing,
- set an examination,
- shrug,
- shrug it off,
- sighthole,
- size,
- size up,
- skip,
- sleep,
- slight,
- stand for,
- stand over,
- stomach,
- study,
- submit to,
- suffer,
- superintend,
- supervise,
- surmount,
- survey,
- suspend judgment,
- take,
- take care of,
- take for granted,
- take stock of,
- take the measure,
- think little of,
- tolerate,
- top,
- top gallery,
- tower,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- view with indulgence,
- voodoo,
- watchtower,
- wink at,
- witch,
- write off,
- yield to
- omission
collapse
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
- any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
- something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" related words >
- Sisyphean labor,
- abbreviation,
- abridgment,
- absence,
- arrearage,
- atrocity,
- bad policy,
- balk,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- beggary,
- bevue,
- blank,
- blockade,
- blue-penciling,
- bowdlerization,
- boycott,
- breach,
- break,
- cancellation,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- chasm,
- circumscription,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- deadly sin,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deletion,
- delinquency,
- demarcation,
- deprivation,
- dereliction,
- destitution,
- disconformity,
- discontinuity,
- disregard,
- dropping,
- drought,
- editing,
- elimination,
- embargo,
- endless task,
- enormity,
- erasure,
- error,
- evil,
- exception,
- excision,
- excluding,
- exclusion,
- expurgation,
- failure,
- false move,
- false step,
- famine,
- fault,
- felony,
- gap,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- heavy sin,
- hiatus,
- imperfection,
- impolicy,
- impoverishment,
- impropriety,
- inadmissibility,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- incompleteness,
- indiscretion,
- inexecution,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexpiable sin,
- iniquity,
- injunction,
- injury,
- injustice,
- inobservance,
- interval,
- laches,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leaving out,
- lockout,
- loose ends,
- loose thread,
- looseness,
- maladministration,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- minor wrong,
- misadministration,
- misconduct,
- miscue,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdirection,
- misfeasance,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- misrule,
- missing link,
- misstep,
- mortal sin,
- narrowing,
- need,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- nonaccomplishment,
- nonachievement,
- nonadherence,
- nonadmission,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsummation,
- nondischarging,
- nonexecution,
- nonfeasance,
- nonfulfillment,
- noninterference,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- offense,
- omitting,
- outage,
- outrage,
- overlook,
- overlooking,
- oversight,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- permissiveness,
- poor stewardship,
- preclusion,
- preterition,
- procrastination,
- prohibition,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- remissness,
- repudiation,
- restriction,
- rough edges,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- skip,
- skipping,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slip,
- slipup,
- starvation,
- striking,
- stumble,
- taboo,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- ullage,
- unfulfillment,
- unobservance,
- unrigorousness,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- want,
- wantage,
- work of Penelope,
- wrong,
- wrong step,
- wrongdoing
- speech
collapse
- (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
- something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" related words >
- ESP,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- alliteration,
- allocution,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- blast,
- bull session,
- catachresis,
- chalk talk,
- chiasmus,
- chinfest,
- choice of words,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- commerce,
- communicating,
- communication,
- communicational,
- communion,
- communional,
- composition,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- conversational,
- converse,
- conversion,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debate,
- declamation,
- dialect,
- dialogue,
- diatribe,
- diction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- duologue,
- ecphonesis,
- elocution,
- emphasis,
- enunciated,
- enunciation,
- eulogy,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- exhortation,
- expression,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formulation,
- funeral oration,
- gemination,
- grammar,
- harangue,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- idiom,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- information,
- interacting,
- interaction,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunion,
- intercommunional,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- invective,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jargon,
- jeremiad,
- language,
- langue,
- lecture,
- line,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linguistic intercourse,
- litotes,
- locution,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- message,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- nuncupative,
- onomatopoeia,
- oral,
- oral communication,
- oration,
- oxymoron,
- palaver,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parlance,
- parley,
- parol,
- parole,
- pep talk,
- periphrasis,
- peroration,
- personal usage,
- personification,
- philippic,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pitch,
- pleonasm,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pronounced,
- public speech,
- question-and-answer session,
- questioning,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- regression,
- repetition,
- reply,
- response,
- responsive,
- rhetoric,
- said,
- sales pitch,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- simile,
- similitude,
- social intercourse,
- song and dance,
- sounded,
- speaking,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spoken,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- talkfest,
- talking,
- telepathic,
- telepathy,
- tirade,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- transmissional,
- trialogue,
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- words,
- zeugma
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