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alliteration collapse: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

assonance collapse: the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

singsong collapse: a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation; speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong; move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain"

tautology collapse: useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"; (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"

monotony collapse: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection; the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

clone collapse: a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"

iteration collapse: doing or saying again; a repeated performance; (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"; (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"

reconstruction collapse: the activity of constructing something again; recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall; an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence; the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877

reorganization collapse: an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government; "after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization"; "the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws"; the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup"

reappearance collapse: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"; the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet"

quadruplicate collapse: any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly; "it was signed in quadruplicate"; reproduce fourfold; "quadruplicate the bill"

renovation collapse: the act of improving by renewing and restoring; "they are pursuing a general program of renovation to the entire property"; "a major overhal of the healthcare system was proposed"; the state of being restored to its former good condition; "the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"

triplicate collapse: one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly; reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee"

humdrum collapse: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

monotone collapse: an unchanging intonation; a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

pursuance collapse: the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion

regurgitation collapse: recall after rote memorization; "he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation"; backflow of blood through a defective heart valve

replica collapse: copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

resurrection collapse: a revival from inactivity and disuse; "it produced a resurrection of hope"; (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion

reincarnation collapse: the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions; a second or new birth; embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion"

rhyme collapse: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds); compose rhymes; be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"

facsimile collapse: duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio; an exact copy or reproduction

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

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