Related Words:
- glibness
collapse - a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" related words >
- articulateness,
- big mouth,
- blandness,
- butter,
- candor,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- effective style,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fair words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- frankness,
- fulsomeness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- graphicness,
- gregariousness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- meaningfulness,
- oiliness,
- openness,
- oratory,
- prolixity,
- rhetoric,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- slush,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- sociability,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- spate of words,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- talkativeness,
- unctuousness,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- volubility,
- windiness
- dialect
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- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" related words >
- Acadian,
- Anglo-Indian,
- Brooklynese,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- Cockney,
- French Canadian,
- Gullah,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- New England dialect,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- Yankee,
- Yorkshire,
- accent,
- argot,
- brogue,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- burr,
- cant,
- choice of words,
- class dialect,
- composition,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect dictionary,
- dialectal,
- diction,
- expression,
- formulation,
- grammar,
- idiom,
- idiomatic,
- isogloss,
- jargon,
- language,
- langue,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- local,
- local dialect,
- localism,
- locution,
- parlance,
- parole,
- patois,
- patter,
- personal usage,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pidgin,
- pronunciation,
- provincial,
- provincialism,
- regional,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- rhetoric,
- slang,
- speech,
- speech community,
- subdialect,
- talk,
- tongue,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- vernacular,
- wordage,
- wording
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- command of language,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expression of ideas,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- hard word,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jawbreaker,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- long word,
- magnification,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- orotundity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- polysyllable,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- self-importance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sesquipedalian,
- strain,
- stretching,
- stuffiness,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superlative,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trick,
- turgidity,
- vein,
- way
- affectation
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- a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display related words >
- Barnumism,
- Gongorism,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bedizenment,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- big talk,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- carriage,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- command of language,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- convolution,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folkway,
- form of speech,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hyperelegance,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- lugs,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- modus vivendi,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward show,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- port,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- posturing,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- presence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- prose run mad,
- purism,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tactics,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tone,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vein,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- window dressing
- grammar
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- the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology) related words >
- abecedarium,
- abecedary,
- alphabet,
- alphabet book,
- basics,
- battledore,
- bowwow theory,
- casebook,
- choice of words,
- comparative linguistics,
- composition,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialect,
- dialectology,
- diction,
- dingdong theory,
- elements,
- etymology,
- exercise book,
- expression,
- first principles,
- first steps,
- formulation,
- fundamentals,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- gradus,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- hornbook,
- idiom,
- induction,
- language,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- locution,
- manual,
- manual of instruction,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- outlines,
- paleography,
- parlance,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- primer,
- principia,
- principles,
- psycholinguistics,
- reader,
- rhetoric,
- rudiments,
- schoolbook,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- speech,
- speller,
- spelling book,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- t,
- talk,
- text,
- transformational linguistics,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- wordage,
- wording,
- workbook
- bombast
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- pompous or pretentious talk or writing related words >
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombastry,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- claptrap,
- conceit,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fanfaronade,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flatulence,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- grandiloquence,
- heroics,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jargon,
- lexiphanicism,
- magniloquence,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- orotundity,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- sesquipedality,
- show,
- side,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- swagger,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- waffling
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lexiphanicism,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rhetorical,
- rodomontade,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- windy
- weak point
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- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient related words >
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- assailability,
- bad case,
- bad habit,
- begging the question,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- chink,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- crack,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- drawback,
- empty words,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faute,
- feet of clay,
- flaw,
- foible,
- formal fallacy,
- frailty,
- heel of Achilles,
- hole,
- hysteron proteron,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- infirmity,
- insincere argument,
- kink,
- little problem,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonshine,
- moral flaw,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- penetrability,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pregnability,
- problem,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rift,
- shortcoming,
- snag,
- soft spot,
- solecism,
- something missing,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- taint,
- verbal fallacy,
- vice,
- vincibility,
- vulnerability,
- vulnerable place,
- vulnerable point,
- weak link,
- weak side,
- weakness
- Irish bull,
- anachronism,
- anacoluthon,
- antiphrasis,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- barbarism,
- begging the question,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blunder,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob,
- botch,
- breach,
- break,
- bull,
- bungle,
- catachresis,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- corruption,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- error,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faux pas,
- flub,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formal fallacy,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- hysteron proteron,
- impropriety,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- indecorum,
- indiscretion,
- infelicity,
- insincere argument,
- lapse,
- logical fallacy,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- mistake,
- misusage,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spoonerism,
- stupidity,
- ungrammaticism,
- verbal fallacy,
- vernacularism,
- violation,
- vulgarism,
- weak point
- adjectival phrase,
- antonym,
- articulation,
- choice of words,
- clause,
- composition,
- construction,
- dialect,
- diction,
- expression,
- formulation,
- free form,
- grammar,
- headed group,
- homograph,
- homonym,
- homophone,
- idiom,
- idiotism,
- language,
- langue,
- lexeme,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic form,
- logos,
- manner of speaking,
- metonym,
- minimum free form,
- monosyllable,
- noun phrase,
- paragraph,
- parlance,
- parol,
- parole,
- peculiar expression,
- period,
- personal usage,
- phonation,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- polysyllable,
- rhetoric,
- sentence,
- sequence of phonemes,
- set phrase,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speech act,
- standard phrase,
- string,
- syllable,
- synonym,
- syntactic structure,
- talk,
- term,
- the spoken word,
- tongue,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- verbiage,
- verbum,
- vocable,
- voice,
- way of speaking,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- word-group,
- wordage,
- wording
- colors
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- a flag that shows its nationality
- a distinguishing emblem; "his tie proclaimed his school colors" related words >
- Communist threat,
- Dannebrog,
- Jolly Roger,
- Old Glory,
- Star-Spangled Banner,
- Stars and Stripes,
- Union Flag,
- Union Jack,
- Western imperialism,
- adornment,
- and blue,
- atrocity story,
- banderole,
- banner,
- banneret,
- battle hymn,
- beauties,
- black flag,
- bloody shirt,
- blue ensign,
- bunting,
- burgee,
- coachwhip,
- colors of rhetoric,
- crostarie,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- ensign,
- expansionism,
- face,
- fiery cross,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- fine writing,
- flag,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- gonfalon,
- gonfanon,
- guidon,
- house flag,
- imperialist threat,
- independence,
- jack,
- long pennant,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- manifest destiny,
- martial music,
- merchant flag,
- national anthem,
- national flag,
- oriflamme,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- pennant,
- pennon,
- pennoncel,
- purple patches,
- red,
- red ensign,
- royal standard,
- self-determination,
- signal flag,
- standard,
- streamer,
- swallowtail,
- tricolor,
- vexillum,
- war song,
- white,
- yellow peril
- manner of speaking
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- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" related words >
- adjectival phrase,
- affectation,
- asiaticism,
- clause,
- command of language,
- construction,
- device,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- headed group,
- idiom,
- idiotism,
- image,
- imagery,
- inflation,
- literary style,
- locution,
- manner,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- noun phrase,
- ornament,
- paragraph,
- peculiar expression,
- peculiarity,
- period,
- personal style,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- purple passage,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- sentence,
- set phrase,
- standard phrase,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- syntactic structure,
- term,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- timbre,
- tone,
- tone of voice,
- trick,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- utterance,
- vein,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- voce,
- voice,
- voice qualifier,
- voice quality,
- way,
- way of saying,
- way of speaking,
- word-group
- idiom
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- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up related words >
- Acadian,
- Anglo-Indian,
- Brooklynese,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- Cockney,
- French Canadian,
- Gullah,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- New England dialect,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- Yankee,
- Yorkshire,
- adjectival phrase,
- argot,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- cant,
- choice of words,
- class dialect,
- clause,
- cliche,
- composition,
- construction,
- dialect,
- dialect dictionary,
- diction,
- expression,
- formulation,
- grammar,
- headed group,
- idiotism,
- isogloss,
- jargon,
- language,
- langue,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- local dialect,
- localism,
- locution,
- manner of speaking,
- noun phrase,
- paragraph,
- parlance,
- parole,
- patois,
- peculiar expression,
- period,
- personal usage,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- provincialism,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- rhetoric,
- sentence,
- set phrase,
- speech,
- speech community,
- standard phrase,
- subdialect,
- syntactic structure,
- talk,
- term,
- tongue,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- utterance,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- verbiage,
- vernacular,
- way of speaking,
- word-group,
- wordage,
- wording
- embellishment
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- a superfluous ornament
- elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings" related words >
- acciaccatura,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- appoggiatura,
- arabesque,
- arrangement,
- beauties,
- beautification,
- bedizenment,
- cadence,
- cadenza,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloratura,
- coloring,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- decor,
- decoration,
- development,
- division,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- elaboration,
- elegant variation,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- enhancement,
- evolution,
- exaggeration,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- filling,
- fine writing,
- fioritura,
- flight,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilding,
- gingerbread,
- grace,
- grace note,
- hyperbole,
- illumination,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- long mordent,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxury,
- maturation,
- mordent,
- needlessness,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- overstatement,
- padding,
- passage,
- payroll padding,
- perfection,
- pleonasm,
- pralltriller,
- prolixity,
- purple patches,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- refinement,
- ripening,
- roulade,
- run,
- seasoning,
- single mordent,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- tautology,
- tinsel,
- trim,
- trimming,
- turn,
- unnecessariness,
- verbosity,
- window dressing
- inflation
collapse
- the act of filling something with air
- (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money" related words >
- Barnumism,
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- ballooning,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big price tag,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- boom,
- boost,
- bottom price,
- breaking point,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- burlesque,
- business index,
- caricature,
- ceiling,
- ceiling price,
- command of language,
- consumer price index,
- convolution,
- cost-of-living index,
- crescendo,
- demand curve,
- development,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expression of ideas,
- extension,
- extortionate price,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- extreme tension,
- famine price,
- fancy price,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- flood,
- floor,
- floor price,
- form of speech,
- fulsomeness,
- gain,
- garishness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- good price,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- heightening,
- high price,
- high-flown diction,
- hike,
- hot economy,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflatedness,
- inflationary gap,
- inflationary pressure,
- inflationary prices,
- inflationary spiral,
- inordinacy,
- intumescence,
- jump,
- leap,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxury price,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretty penny,
- price ceiling,
- price index,
- price level,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- proliferation,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- puffing up,
- rack rent,
- raise,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rise,
- rising prices,
- scarcity price,
- self-importance,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- snapping point,
- snowballing,
- soaring costs,
- spiraling prices,
- spread,
- stiff price,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- straining,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- stuffiness,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superlative,
- surge,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tension,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- top price,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trick,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- vein,
- waxing,
- way,
- widening,
- windiness
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- babble,
- babblement,
- bad case,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- baloney,
- begging the question,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blague,
- blather,
- bombast,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- circular argument,
- crap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- empty words,
- eyewash,
- fallacy,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flimflam,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- formal fallacy,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hysteron proteron,
- insincere argument,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- jiggery-pokery,
- logical fallacy,
- malarkey,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonshine,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- non sequitur,
- nonsense,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- prate,
- prattle,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- skimble-skamble,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vaporing,
- verbal fallacy,
- waffling,
- weak point
- moonshine
collapse
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine related words >
- BS,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- balderdash,
- balls,
- baloney,
- bathtub gin,
- begging the question,
- bilge,
- black-market,
- black-marketeer,
- blague,
- blah,
- blah-blah,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blether,
- blockade,
- bootleg,
- bootleg liquor,
- bop,
- bosh,
- brew,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- con,
- crap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- distill,
- drivel,
- empty words,
- eyewash,
- fallacy,
- fence,
- flam,
- flapdoodle,
- flimflam,
- formal fallacy,
- gammon,
- garbage,
- gas,
- guff,
- gup,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- home brew,
- hooch,
- hooey,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hysteron proteron,
- insincere argument,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jive,
- line,
- logical fallacy,
- malarkey,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonbeam,
- moonglow,
- moonlight,
- mountain dew,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- pseudosyllogism,
- push,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- scat,
- shine,
- shit,
- shove,
- smoke,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- stuff and nonsense,
- taradiddle,
- tommyrot,
- tripe,
- twaddle,
- verbal fallacy,
- weak point,
- white lightning,
- white mule,
- wind
- speaking
collapse
- the utterance of intelligible speech related words >
- ESP,
- accents,
- answer,
- articulate,
- breathing,
- chatter,
- comment,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent,
- exchange,
- faithful,
- forensics,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lifelike,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic intercourse,
- living,
- locution,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- message,
- natural,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- outspoken,
- palaver,
- parol,
- parole,
- phonation,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- realistic,
- reply,
- response,
- rhetoric,
- sequence of phonemes,
- social intercourse,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- speech,
- speech act,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- string,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talkative,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the spoken word,
- to the life,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true-speaking,
- two-way communication,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- verbalization,
- vocable,
- voice,
- well-spoken,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- 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
- frill
collapse
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
- (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs related words >
- addition,
- adornment,
- amenity,
- beading,
- beauties,
- bedizenment,
- binding,
- bonus,
- bordering,
- bordure,
- bravery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- crease,
- creasing,
- crimp,
- crisp,
- decoration,
- dog-ear,
- double,
- double over,
- doubling,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- duplicature,
- edging,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- enfold,
- expletive,
- extra,
- extra added attraction,
- extra dash,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- festoons,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- filigree,
- filling,
- fillip,
- fimbria,
- fimbriation,
- fine writing,
- finery,
- flection,
- flexure,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flounce,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- flute,
- fold,
- fold over,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- fringe,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- furbelow,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- galloon,
- gather,
- gaudery,
- gewgaw,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- hem,
- infold,
- interfold,
- jazz,
- lagniappe,
- lap over,
- lapel,
- lappet,
- list,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxury,
- motif,
- needlessness,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- paste,
- payroll padding,
- pinchbeck,
- plait,
- plat,
- pleat,
- pleonasm,
- plica,
- plicate,
- plication,
- plicature,
- ply,
- premium,
- prolixity,
- purple patches,
- quill,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- ruche,
- ruching,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- selvage,
- showiness,
- skirting,
- something extra,
- stuffing,
- superaddition,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- tautology,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trimming,
- trumpery,
- tuck,
- turn over,
- twill,
- twist,
- unnecessariness,
- valance,
- verbosity,
- welt,
- wrinkle
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