Related Words:
- inducement
collapse - act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep" related words >
- Trinkgeld,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- bait,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- bonus,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- carrot,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- come-on,
- conning,
- consideration,
- donative,
- double time,
- enchantment,
- encouragement,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- fascination,
- fee,
- fillip,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- honorarium,
- hortation,
- incentive,
- incentive pay,
- incitement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jawboning,
- lagniappe,
- largess,
- liberality,
- lobbying,
- lure,
- magnetism,
- palm oil,
- payment,
- percentage,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- pourboire,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- premium,
- profit,
- provocation,
- reward,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- salve,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- selling,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- something extra,
- sportula,
- spur,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- tantalization,
- temptation,
- tip,
- wheedling,
- whet,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- working on
- activity,
- animation,
- animus,
- aptitude,
- ardor,
- backbone,
- bent,
- bias,
- bottom,
- brio,
- briskness,
- cast,
- character,
- chutzpah,
- constitution,
- courage,
- dauntlessness,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- eccentricity,
- elan,
- enthusiasm,
- gameness,
- glow,
- grain,
- grit,
- gusto,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- guttiness,
- heart,
- heart of oak,
- idiosyncrasy,
- impetuosity,
- impetus,
- inclination,
- individualism,
- intestinal fortitude,
- joie de vivre,
- kidney,
- leaning,
- life,
- liveliness,
- lustiness,
- make,
- makeup,
- mental set,
- mettlesomeness,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- mold,
- moxie,
- nature,
- nerve,
- perkiness,
- pertness,
- pith,
- pluck,
- pluckiness,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- proclivity,
- propensity,
- resolution,
- robustness,
- set,
- slant,
- spirit,
- spiritedness,
- spunk,
- spunkiness,
- stamina,
- stamp,
- stout heart,
- strain,
- streak,
- stripe,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- toughness,
- true grit,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- vivacity,
- warmth,
- warp,
- zest,
- zestfulness
- peep
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- appear as though from hiding; "the new moon peeped through the tree tops"
- speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
- make high-pitched sounds; of birds
- cause to appear; "he peeped his head through the window"
- look furtively; "He peeped at the woman through the window" related words >
- bend the eyes,
- blink,
- bug,
- cackle,
- call,
- carol,
- case,
- cast,
- caw,
- chatter,
- cheep,
- chip,
- chipper,
- chirk,
- chirm,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- chuck,
- clack,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- complaint,
- coo,
- croak,
- cronk,
- crow,
- cuckoo,
- direct the eyes,
- drum,
- flash,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- gander,
- glance,
- glimpse,
- gobble,
- grumble,
- guggle,
- half an eye,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- look,
- look over,
- make a reconnaissance,
- meddle,
- murmur,
- nose,
- ogle,
- outcry,
- peek,
- peer,
- pip,
- pipe,
- play peekaboo,
- play the spy,
- protest,
- protestation,
- pry,
- put under surveillance,
- quack,
- quick sight,
- rapid glance,
- reconnoiter,
- roll,
- scold,
- scout,
- scout out,
- sing,
- slant,
- snoop,
- sound,
- spy,
- spy out,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squiz,
- stake out,
- stare,
- take a peep,
- trill,
- tweedle,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- warble,
- watch,
- whistle,
- wink
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activism,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- air,
- automatism,
- bad habit,
- bearing,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- bon ton,
- carriage,
- characteristic,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- conformity,
- consuetude,
- convention,
- creature of habit,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- doing,
- doings,
- employment,
- established way,
- etiquette,
- exercise,
- fashion,
- folkway,
- force of habit,
- function,
- functioning,
- gestures,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- habit,
- habit pattern,
- habitude,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- modus vivendi,
- mores,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- observable behavior,
- observance,
- occupation,
- operation,
- operations,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- play,
- poise,
- port,
- pose,
- posture,
- practice,
- prescription,
- presence,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- proper thing,
- ritual,
- second nature,
- social convention,
- social science,
- standard behavior,
- standard usage,
- standing custom,
- stereotype,
- stereotyped behavior,
- style,
- swing,
- tactics,
- time-honored practice,
- tone,
- tradition,
- trick,
- usage,
- use,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- what is done,
- wont,
- wonting,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- temperament
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- an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
- excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) related words >
- animus,
- aptitude,
- bent,
- bias,
- body-build,
- brand,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characteristics,
- chromatic scale,
- compass,
- complexion,
- composition,
- constituents,
- constitution,
- crasis,
- dharma,
- diapason,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- dodecuple scale,
- eccentricity,
- enharmonic scale,
- ethos,
- fiber,
- frame,
- gamut,
- genius,
- grain,
- great scale,
- habit,
- hue,
- humor,
- humors,
- idiosyncrasy,
- ilk,
- inclination,
- individualism,
- individuality,
- kidney,
- kind,
- leaning,
- major scale,
- make,
- makeup,
- melodic minor,
- mental set,
- mentality,
- mettle,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- minor scale,
- mold,
- nature,
- octave scale,
- pentatonic scale,
- personality,
- physique,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- proclivity,
- propensity,
- property,
- quality,
- range,
- register,
- scale,
- set,
- slant,
- somatotype,
- sort,
- spirit,
- stamp,
- strain,
- streak,
- stripe,
- suchness,
- system,
- temper,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- tone,
- tuning,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- vein,
- warp,
- way,
- whole-tone scale
- predisposition
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- a disposition in advance to react in a particular way
- an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way related words >
- a thing for,
- affinity,
- animus,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bag,
- bent,
- bias,
- cast,
- character,
- chosen kind,
- conatus,
- conduciveness,
- constitution,
- cup of tea,
- delight,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- druthers,
- eagerness,
- eccentricity,
- fancy,
- favor,
- feeling for,
- forejudgment,
- grain,
- idiosyncrasy,
- inclination,
- inclining,
- individualism,
- kidney,
- leaning,
- liability,
- liking,
- make,
- makeup,
- mental set,
- mettle,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- mold,
- nature,
- parti pris,
- partiality,
- particular choice,
- penchant,
- personal choice,
- preapprehension,
- preconception,
- preconclusion,
- preconsideration,
- predecision,
- predetermination,
- predilection,
- preference,
- prejudgment,
- prejudication,
- prejudice,
- premature judgment,
- prenotion,
- prepossession,
- presumption,
- presupposal,
- presupposition,
- presurmise,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- readiness,
- sensitivity to,
- set,
- slant,
- soft spot,
- stamp,
- strain,
- streak,
- stripe,
- style,
- susceptibility,
- taste,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- thing,
- tropism,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- warp,
- weakness,
- willingness
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- action,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- apologue,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bedtime story,
- catastrophe,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- denouement,
- design,
- detective story,
- development,
- device,
- episode,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fairy tale,
- falling action,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- folk story,
- folklore,
- folktale,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- gimmick,
- horse opera,
- incident,
- legend,
- line,
- local color,
- love story,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- nursery tale,
- parable,
- peripeteia,
- plan,
- plot,
- recognition,
- rising action,
- romance,
- scheme,
- science fiction,
- secondary plot,
- shocker,
- slant,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- suspense story,
- switch,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thriller,
- tone,
- topic,
- tradition,
- twist,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction
- abjure,
- assert the contrary,
- be contrary to,
- blow sky-high,
- blow up,
- burlesque,
- call into question,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- challenge,
- color,
- conceal,
- contest,
- contradict,
- contravene,
- controvert,
- counter,
- cross,
- deflate,
- deny,
- disaffirm,
- disallow,
- disavow,
- disclaim,
- disconfirm,
- discredit,
- disguise,
- disown,
- disprove,
- dispute,
- distort,
- dress up,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- exaggerate,
- explode,
- expose,
- falsify,
- forswear,
- fudge,
- gainsay,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- hide,
- impugn,
- invalidate,
- join issue upon,
- mask,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- negate,
- negative,
- not accept,
- not admit,
- nullify,
- oppose,
- oppugn,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- parody,
- pervert,
- prove the contrary,
- puncture,
- rebut,
- recant,
- refuse to admit,
- refute,
- reject,
- renounce,
- repudiate,
- retract,
- revoke,
- show up,
- slant,
- strain,
- take back,
- take issue with,
- titivate,
- traverse,
- travesty,
- trick out,
- twist,
- undercut,
- understate,
- varnish,
- warp,
- whitewash,
- wrench
- gloss over
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- treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly related words >
- account,
- allow for,
- be caught napping,
- be neglectful,
- be negligent,
- becloud,
- befog,
- belie,
- blanket,
- blind,
- camouflage,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- cover,
- cover up,
- curtain,
- default,
- diminish,
- disguise,
- disregard,
- dissemble,
- distort,
- distract attention from,
- dress up,
- ease,
- eclipse,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- explain,
- extenuate,
- fail,
- falsify,
- fudge,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- hide,
- ignore,
- justify,
- keep under cover,
- lapse,
- lessen,
- let go,
- let ride,
- let slide,
- let slip,
- lose sight of,
- lose track of,
- make allowance for,
- mask,
- mince,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- mitigate,
- neglect,
- nod,
- not care for,
- not get involved,
- not heed,
- not think,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- overlook,
- overstate,
- palliate,
- pass over,
- pervert,
- rationalize,
- screen,
- shade,
- shroud,
- slant,
- sleep,
- slur over,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- strain,
- sugarcoat,
- take for granted,
- titivate,
- trick out,
- twist,
- understate,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veneer,
- warp,
- white,
- whiten,
- whitewash
- agacerie,
- alchemy,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- appealingness,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- bedevilment,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- come-hither,
- delightfulness,
- divination,
- eeriness,
- elfdom,
- enchantment,
- enravishment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrancement,
- entrapment,
- exquisiteness,
- faerie,
- fascination,
- fetishism,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- grace,
- gramarye,
- hoodoo,
- illusion,
- incantation,
- inducement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- invitingness,
- juju,
- jujuism,
- loveliness,
- luxury,
- magic,
- magnetism,
- maya,
- miraculousness,
- mysteriousness,
- mystery,
- natural magic,
- necromancy,
- numinousness,
- obeah,
- obsession,
- otherworldliness,
- possession,
- preternaturalism,
- rune,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- sensuousness,
- sex appeal,
- shamanism,
- snaring,
- sorcery,
- sortilege,
- spell,
- spellbinding,
- spellcasting,
- superhumanity,
- supernaturalism,
- supernaturality,
- supernaturalness,
- supernature,
- supernormalness,
- superphysicalness,
- supersensibleness,
- supranaturalism,
- supranature,
- sympathetic magic,
- tantalization,
- tantalizingness,
- temptation,
- temptingness,
- thaumaturgia,
- thaumaturgics,
- thaumaturgism,
- thaumaturgy,
- the occult,
- the supernatural,
- the supersensible,
- theurgy,
- transcendentalism,
- unearthliness,
- unworldliness,
- vampirism,
- voluptuousness,
- voodoo,
- voodooism,
- wanga,
- white magic,
- winning ways,
- winningness,
- winsomeness,
- witchcraft,
- witchwork,
- wizardry,
- wooing
- swank
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- imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment" related words >
- Babylonian,
- Corinthian,
- airs,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- bounce,
- brave show,
- braw,
- chic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- cock,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- deluxe,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- genteel,
- glorious,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- highfaluting ways,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- jaunty,
- lofty airs,
- look big,
- luxurious,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- noble,
- ostentatious,
- palatial,
- peacock,
- peacockery,
- peacockish,
- peacockishness,
- peacocky,
- plush,
- pontificate,
- posh,
- prance,
- pretensions,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- put on side,
- recherche,
- ritz it,
- ritzy,
- sharp,
- side,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snappy,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- splashy,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- spruce,
- stalk,
- stately,
- strut,
- strutting,
- style-conscious,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swagger,
- swaggering,
- swanky,
- swash,
- swashbuckle,
- swashbucklering,
- swashbucklery,
- swashbuckling,
- swell,
- swell it,
- swish,
- tony,
- trendy,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- vain pretensions,
- vaporing,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed,
- with-it
- detour
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- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- travel via a detour related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- back door,
- back road,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- by-lane,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- change the bearing,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumbendibus,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- depart from,
- departure,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digress,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- go around,
- go round about,
- hairpin,
- heel,
- indirection,
- make a detour,
- obliquity,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- runaround,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- trend,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away from,
- turning,
- twist,
- variation,
- vary,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- fable
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- a short moral story (often with animal characters) related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- action,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- apologue,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bedtime story,
- canard,
- catastrophe,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- concoction,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- denouement,
- design,
- detective story,
- development,
- device,
- episode,
- extravaganza,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falling action,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- gimmick,
- horse opera,
- incident,
- invention,
- legend,
- line,
- local color,
- love story,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nursery tale,
- parable,
- peripeteia,
- plan,
- plot,
- recognition,
- rising action,
- romance,
- scheme,
- science fiction,
- secondary plot,
- shocker,
- slant,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- suspense story,
- switch,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thriller,
- tone,
- topic,
- twist,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction
- boy
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- (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man; "get out of my way, boy"
- a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys" related words >
- American Indian,
- Amerind,
- Australian aborigine,
- Bushman,
- Caucasian,
- Indian,
- Malayan,
- Mister Charley,
- Mongolian,
- Negrillo,
- Negrito,
- Negro,
- Oriental,
- Red Indian,
- WASP,
- black,
- black man,
- blackfellow,
- bloke,
- brown man,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- bud,
- buddy,
- burrhead,
- chauffeur,
- coachman,
- colored person,
- colt,
- coon,
- cub,
- darky,
- driver,
- equerry,
- fellow,
- fledgling,
- gamin,
- gardener,
- gee,
- gent,
- gentleman,
- gillie,
- goody,
- gook,
- guy,
- he,
- hobbledehoy,
- honky,
- houseboy,
- houseman,
- jigaboo,
- jungle bunny,
- lad,
- laddie,
- lord-in-waiting,
- man,
- manchild,
- manservant,
- master,
- muchacho,
- nigger,
- niggra,
- ofay,
- paleface,
- pup,
- puppy,
- pygmy,
- ragamuffin,
- red man,
- redskin,
- schoolboy,
- slant-eye,
- small fry,
- son,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- spade,
- street arab,
- stripling,
- tad,
- the Man,
- urchin,
- valet,
- valet de chambre,
- whelp,
- whippersnapper,
- white,
- white man,
- whitey,
- yellow man,
- young man,
- youth
- adorn,
- apparel,
- array,
- beautify,
- bedeck,
- bedizen,
- belie,
- blazon,
- camouflage,
- caparison,
- color,
- convolute,
- cultivate,
- dandify,
- deck,
- deck out,
- decorate,
- develop,
- disguise,
- distort,
- dizen,
- doll up,
- dress,
- dress up,
- elaborate,
- emblazon,
- embroider,
- enhance,
- enrich,
- evolve,
- exaggerate,
- falsify,
- festoon,
- fig out,
- finish,
- fix up,
- flourish,
- fudge,
- furbish,
- furbish up,
- garble,
- garnish,
- gild,
- gild the lily,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- grace,
- gussy up,
- improve,
- involve,
- load with ornament,
- magnify,
- mask,
- mature,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- ornament,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overlay,
- overload,
- overpaint,
- overstate,
- pad,
- paint,
- perfect,
- pervert,
- polish,
- prank,
- prank up,
- preen,
- prettify,
- primp,
- primp up,
- prink,
- prink up,
- redecorate,
- redo,
- refine,
- refurbish,
- ripen,
- season,
- set off,
- set out,
- slant,
- smarten,
- smarten up,
- spruce up,
- strain,
- titivate,
- trick out,
- trick up,
- trim,
- twist,
- understate,
- varnish,
- warp,
- whitewash
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