Related Words:
- gossamer
collapse - a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture related words >
- air,
- airy,
- animal fiber,
- artificial fiber,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- bubble,
- cambric tea,
- capillament,
- chaff,
- chip,
- cilium,
- cirrus,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cobweb,
- cork,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- denier,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- dishwater,
- down,
- downy,
- dust,
- ether,
- ethereal,
- fairy,
- feather,
- fiber,
- fibrilla,
- filament,
- filamentule,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagellum,
- flimsy,
- flue,
- fluff,
- fluffy,
- foam,
- frail,
- froth,
- fuzz,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- gruel,
- hair,
- hank,
- house of cards,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- light,
- light-pervious,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- matchwood,
- milk and water,
- misty,
- mote,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- pubescent,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reed,
- refined,
- revealing,
- rope of sand,
- sand castle,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- sheer,
- silky,
- skein,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- smooth,
- sponge,
- spume,
- strand,
- straw,
- subtle,
- suture,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tendril,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- thistledown,
- thread,
- threadlet,
- threadlike,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- vague,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- wasp-waisted,
- water,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- web,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- involuntary
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- not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy
- controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start" related words >
- at odds,
- automatic,
- averse,
- binding,
- blind,
- casual,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- conditioned,
- cursory,
- dictated,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- forced,
- fractious,
- gut,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- imperative,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inevitable,
- inherent,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- libidinal,
- mandatory,
- mechanical,
- mutinous,
- natural,
- necessary,
- obligatory,
- opposed,
- perfunctory,
- recalcitrant,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refractory,
- required,
- resistant,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- subliminal,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadvised,
- uncalculated,
- unconscious,
- unconsenting,
- unconsidered,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unguarded,
- unguided,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unlearned,
- unmeant,
- unmeditated,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprompted,
- unpurposed,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unthought-of,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting
- Miss America,
- Telephoto,
- Wirephoto,
- aerial photograph,
- bathing beauty,
- beau ideal,
- beaut,
- beauty,
- beauty contest winner,
- beauty queen,
- belle,
- black-and-white photograph,
- bunny,
- candid photograph,
- charmer,
- cheesecake,
- chronophotograph,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- cover girl,
- dazzler,
- diapositive,
- dream,
- enchantress,
- great beauty,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- knockout,
- lady fair,
- looker,
- model,
- montage,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- paragon,
- peach,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- picture,
- pinup girl,
- portrait,
- pussycat,
- raving beauty,
- reigning beauty,
- sex kitten,
- shot,
- slick chick,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- stunner,
- telephotograph,
- transparency
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- curio,
- dole,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- half rations,
- halfpenny,
- hardly anything,
- hill of beans,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- mere nothing,
- mere subsistence,
- minikin,
- mite,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- next to nothing,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pittance,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- scrimption,
- shit,
- short allowance,
- short commons,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- starvation wages,
- straw,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- whim-wham
- pinprick
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- small puncture (as if made by a pin)
- a minor annoyance related words >
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- curio,
- cursoriness,
- epidermis,
- exteriority,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gloss,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hill of beans,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- mere scratch,
- minikin,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- no depth,
- no water,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- rap,
- red cent,
- rind,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- scratch,
- shallowness,
- shit,
- shoaliness,
- skin,
- slightness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- straw,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- surface,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- veneer,
- whim-wham
- monotone
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- an unchanging intonation
- a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) related words >
- AF,
- Indian file,
- alliterating,
- alliteration,
- alliterative,
- array,
- articulation,
- assonance,
- assonant,
- audio frequency,
- banausic,
- bank,
- belabored,
- blah,
- buzz,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- clockwork regularity,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- constancy,
- continuum,
- course,
- cycle,
- daily round,
- descent,
- dim,
- dingdong,
- dreary,
- drone,
- droning,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- even pace,
- even tenor,
- file,
- filiation,
- frequency,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- harmonic,
- harping,
- hum,
- humdrum,
- intonation,
- invariability,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- line,
- lineage,
- monologue,
- monotonic,
- monotonous,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- near rhyme,
- nexus,
- orderliness,
- overtone,
- partial,
- partial tone,
- pedestrian,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- pitch,
- pitter-patter,
- plenum,
- poky,
- powder train,
- progression,
- queue,
- range,
- rank,
- recurrence,
- regularity,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- reticulation,
- rhyme,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- sameliness,
- sameness,
- scale,
- sequence,
- series,
- single file,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- smoothness,
- soniferous,
- sonorous,
- sounded,
- sounding,
- spectrum,
- stale repetition,
- stodgy,
- string,
- succession,
- swath,
- tedious,
- tedium,
- thread,
- tier,
- tonal,
- tone,
- toneless,
- tonelessness,
- train,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- undeviation,
- undifferentiation,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unvariation,
- windrow
- curio
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- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting related words >
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- cent,
- conversation piece,
- curiosity,
- exception,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hill of beans,
- improbability,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- minikin,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- museum piece,
- nonesuch,
- oddity,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- rap,
- rarity,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- shit,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- strange thing,
- straw,
- toy,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- whatnot,
- whim-wham
- bash
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- an uproarious party related words >
- bang,
- bat,
- batter,
- beat,
- beating,
- belt,
- biff,
- blow,
- blowout,
- bonk,
- bruise,
- buffet,
- bung,
- bung up,
- chop,
- clap,
- clip,
- clobber,
- clout,
- clump,
- coldcock,
- contuse,
- crack,
- cut,
- dash,
- deal,
- deal a blow,
- deck,
- dig,
- dint,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drumming,
- fetch,
- fetch a blow,
- fusillade,
- hit,
- hit a clip,
- jab,
- knock,
- knock cold,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- let have it,
- lick,
- maul,
- paste,
- pelt,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pound,
- punch,
- rap,
- shindy,
- slam,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smite,
- snap,
- soak,
- sock,
- strike,
- strike at,
- stroke,
- swat,
- swing,
- swipe,
- tattoo,
- thump,
- thwack,
- wallop,
- whack,
- wham,
- whop,
- yerk
- ablate,
- atomize,
- bite the dust,
- break,
- break open,
- break up,
- burst,
- canker,
- carry away,
- come apart,
- come off,
- come to dust,
- come undone,
- come unstuck,
- consume,
- corrode,
- corrupt,
- crack,
- crack up,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- crumble to dust,
- decay,
- decompose,
- disintegrate,
- disjoin,
- disorganize,
- dissolve,
- effloresce,
- erode,
- fall,
- fall into decay,
- fall off,
- fall to dust,
- fester,
- fission,
- fissure,
- fly apart,
- fracture,
- gangrene,
- get loose,
- give away,
- give way,
- go bad,
- go to pieces,
- grain,
- granulate,
- mildew,
- mold,
- molder,
- mortify,
- necrose,
- peel off,
- powder,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- rankle,
- rot,
- rupture,
- shard,
- shatter,
- snap,
- sphacelate,
- split,
- spoil,
- spring a leak,
- spring apart,
- start,
- suppurate,
- topple,
- tumble,
- unravel,
- waste away,
- wear away
- sibilate
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- utter a sibilant
- pronounce with an initial sibilant related words >
- assibilate,
- bark,
- bawl,
- bellow,
- blare,
- blat,
- blubber,
- boom,
- bray,
- breathe,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- chant,
- chirp,
- coo,
- crow,
- drawl,
- effervesce,
- exclaim,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- flute,
- gasp,
- growl,
- grunt,
- hiss,
- hush,
- keen,
- lilt,
- lisp,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- pant,
- pipe,
- roar,
- rumble,
- scream,
- screech,
- shriek,
- shush,
- sigh,
- sing,
- siss,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- snap,
- snarl,
- sneeze,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- sob,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squall,
- squash,
- squawk,
- squeal,
- squelch,
- squish,
- swish,
- thunder,
- trumpet,
- twang,
- wail,
- warble,
- wheeze,
- whine,
- whish,
- whisk,
- whisper,
- whistle,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- yap,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- zip
- starch
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- a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
- stiffen with starch; "starch clothes" related words >
- aggressiveness,
- albumen,
- bang,
- batter,
- bonnyclabber,
- butter,
- carbohydrate,
- clabber,
- cornstarch,
- cream,
- curd,
- dash,
- dough,
- drive,
- egg white,
- enterprise,
- fire,
- gaum,
- gel,
- gelatin,
- get-up-and-go,
- getup,
- ginger,
- glair,
- glop,
- glue,
- gluten,
- go,
- goo,
- gook,
- goop,
- gruel,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- hydroxy aldehyde,
- hydroxy ketone,
- initiative,
- jam,
- jell,
- jelly,
- kick,
- loblolly,
- molasses,
- monosaccharide,
- mucilage,
- mucus,
- pap,
- paste,
- pep,
- pepper,
- piss and vinegar,
- pizzazz,
- polysaccharide,
- polysaccharose,
- poop,
- porridge,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- punch,
- puree,
- push,
- putty,
- rob,
- saccharide,
- semifluid,
- semiliquid,
- size,
- snap,
- soup,
- spunk,
- sticky mess,
- sugar,
- syrup,
- thrust,
- treacle,
- trisaccharide,
- verve,
- vim,
- vitality,
- zing,
- zip
- straw vote
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- an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue related words >
- Australian ballot,
- Hare system,
- aye,
- ballot,
- barometer,
- canvass,
- canvassing,
- casting vote,
- counting heads,
- cumulative voting,
- deciding vote,
- division,
- enfranchisement,
- fagot vote,
- feeler,
- franchise,
- graveyard vote,
- hand vote,
- list system,
- nay,
- no,
- nontransferable vote,
- pilot balloon,
- plebiscite,
- plebiscitum,
- plumper,
- plural vote,
- poll,
- polling,
- preferential voting,
- probe,
- proportional representation,
- proxy,
- random sample,
- record vote,
- referendum,
- representation,
- right to vote,
- rising vote,
- sample,
- say,
- secret ballot,
- show of hands,
- single vote,
- snap vote,
- sound,
- sounder,
- suffrage,
- transferable vote,
- trial balloon,
- viva voce,
- voice,
- voice vote,
- vote,
- voting,
- voting right,
- weather vane,
- weathercock,
- write-in,
- write-in vote,
- yea,
- yeas and nays,
- yes
- balk
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- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk" related words >
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- balk at,
- balking,
- be unwilling,
- beam,
- beat,
- begrudge,
- betrayed hope,
- bevue,
- bilk,
- blast,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- boggle,
- brave,
- buffet,
- cast down,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- comedown,
- confound,
- confounding,
- confront,
- confusion,
- contravene,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- decline,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- die hard,
- disappoint,
- disappointment,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- false move,
- false step,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flinch,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- frustrate,
- frustration,
- gag,
- grudge,
- hang back,
- hold out,
- hope deferred,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- jib,
- knock the chocks,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- let down,
- letdown,
- loose thread,
- mind,
- mirage,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- nonplus,
- not budge,
- not care to,
- not feel like,
- object to,
- omission,
- oversight,
- perplex,
- persevere,
- quail,
- rebuff,
- recoil,
- refuse,
- repulse,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rout,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- scruple,
- setback,
- shrink,
- shy,
- slip,
- slipup,
- sore disappointment,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stand out,
- stand pat,
- stick,
- stickle,
- stonewall,
- strain,
- stumble,
- stump,
- take no denial,
- tantalization,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwart,
- thwarting,
- trip,
- turn down,
- upset,
- would rather not,
- wrong step
- plebiscite
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- a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance related words >
- Australian ballot,
- Hare system,
- aye,
- ballot,
- canvass,
- canvassing,
- casting vote,
- constitutional referendum,
- counting heads,
- cumulative voting,
- deciding vote,
- direct initiative,
- division,
- enfranchisement,
- facultative referendum,
- fagot vote,
- franchise,
- graveyard vote,
- hand vote,
- indirect initiative,
- initiative,
- list system,
- mandate,
- mandatory referendum,
- nay,
- no,
- nontransferable vote,
- plebiscitum,
- plumper,
- plural vote,
- poll,
- polling,
- preferential voting,
- proportional representation,
- proxy,
- recall,
- record vote,
- referendum,
- representation,
- right to vote,
- rising vote,
- say,
- secret ballot,
- show of hands,
- single vote,
- snap vote,
- statutory referendum,
- straw vote,
- suffrage,
- transferable vote,
- viva voce,
- voice,
- voice vote,
- vote,
- voting,
- voting right,
- write-in,
- write-in vote,
- yea,
- yeas and nays,
- yes
- exclaim
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- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" related words >
- allude to,
- bark,
- bawl,
- bellow,
- blare,
- blat,
- blubber,
- blurt,
- blurt out,
- bolt,
- boom,
- bray,
- breathe,
- burst out,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- call attention to,
- call out,
- chant,
- chirp,
- comment,
- coo,
- crow,
- cry out,
- declare,
- drawl,
- ejaculate,
- flute,
- gasp,
- growl,
- grunt,
- hiss,
- holler,
- interject,
- keen,
- let drop,
- let fall,
- lilt,
- make reference to,
- mention,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- muse,
- mutter,
- note,
- observe,
- opine,
- pant,
- pipe,
- proclaim,
- refer to,
- reflect,
- remark,
- roar,
- rumble,
- scream,
- screech,
- shout,
- shriek,
- sibilate,
- sigh,
- sing,
- snap,
- snarl,
- snort,
- sob,
- speak,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeal,
- thunder,
- trumpet,
- twang,
- utter,
- vociferate,
- wail,
- warble,
- whine,
- whisper,
- yap,
- yawp,
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- Photostat
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- a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper
- a photocopy made on a Photostat machine
- make a copy by means of a Photostat device related words >
- Ditto copy,
- X-ray,
- Xerox,
- Xerox copy,
- blowup,
- blueprint,
- calotype,
- capture on film,
- clone,
- contact print,
- contact printing,
- copy,
- cyanotype,
- ditto,
- double,
- dupe,
- duplicate,
- enlargement,
- facsimile,
- film,
- glossy,
- hectograph,
- hectograph copy,
- hologram,
- impress,
- impression,
- lantern slide,
- manifold,
- matte,
- microcopy,
- microfilm,
- microprint,
- mimeo,
- mimeograph,
- mimeograph copy,
- mug,
- multigraph,
- negative,
- offprint,
- pan,
- photocopy,
- photograph,
- photogravure,
- photomap,
- photostatic copy,
- positive,
- print,
- projection printing,
- proof,
- quadruplicate,
- radiograph,
- reduplicate,
- replicate,
- reprint,
- reproduce,
- roentgenograph,
- semi-matte,
- shoot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshoot,
- snapshot,
- stat,
- take a photograph,
- talbotype,
- trace,
- transcribe,
- transparency,
- triplicate
- Xerox
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- a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder
- a copy made by a xerographic printer related words >
- Ditto copy,
- Photostat,
- X-ray,
- Xerox copy,
- blowup,
- blueprint,
- calotype,
- capture on film,
- clone,
- contact print,
- contact printing,
- copy,
- cyanotype,
- ditto,
- double,
- dupe,
- duplicate,
- enlargement,
- facsimile,
- film,
- glossy,
- hectograph,
- hectograph copy,
- hologram,
- impress,
- impression,
- lantern slide,
- manifold,
- matte,
- microcopy,
- microfilm,
- microprint,
- mimeo,
- mimeograph,
- mimeograph copy,
- mug,
- multigraph,
- negative,
- offprint,
- pan,
- photocopy,
- photograph,
- photogravure,
- photomap,
- photostatic copy,
- positive,
- print,
- projection printing,
- proof,
- quadruplicate,
- radiograph,
- reduplicate,
- replicate,
- reprint,
- reproduce,
- roentgenograph,
- semi-matte,
- shoot,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshoot,
- snapshot,
- stat,
- take a photograph,
- talbotype,
- trace,
- transcribe,
- transparency,
- triplicate
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