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- elocution
collapse - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture related words >
- accents,
- chatter,
- comment,
- conversation,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- eloquence,
- forensics,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- language,
- lecturing,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- palaver,
- parole,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- rhetoric,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talking,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- payoff
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- the final payment of a debt related words >
- Z,
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- apodosis,
- binder,
- bitter end,
- boodle,
- bribe,
- bribe money,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- clearance,
- climax,
- coda,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- debt service,
- decease,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- denouement,
- deposit,
- destination,
- destiny,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- doom,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- goal,
- gratification,
- gratuity,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- hush money,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- liquidation,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- omega,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payola,
- period,
- peroration,
- prepayment,
- protection,
- quarterly payments,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- sop,
- spot cash,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- weekly payments,
- windup
- accept,
- affix,
- altercate,
- anchor,
- annex,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- assume,
- attach,
- attack,
- attempt,
- barney,
- begin,
- belay,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- blast away,
- blast off,
- brawl,
- broil,
- buckle to,
- casuistry,
- cement,
- cinch,
- clamp,
- clinch,
- commence,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cramp,
- defense,
- differ,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- dive in,
- dive into,
- dustup,
- embark,
- embark in,
- embark upon,
- endeavor,
- engage in,
- engraft,
- enter,
- enter on,
- enter upon,
- fall into,
- fall to,
- fasten,
- feud,
- fight,
- fix,
- flite,
- flyting,
- get busy,
- get cracking,
- get going,
- get off,
- get to,
- get under way,
- get with it,
- go about,
- go ahead,
- go at,
- go in for,
- go into,
- go to it,
- go upon,
- graft,
- grapple,
- hassle,
- have at,
- have words,
- head into,
- hop to it,
- hubbub,
- join issue,
- jump off,
- jump to it,
- kick off,
- knit,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- launch,
- launch forth,
- launch into,
- lay about,
- light into,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- make fast,
- moor,
- move into,
- open,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- pitch in,
- pitch into,
- plunge into,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- proceed to,
- put to,
- quarrel,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumpus,
- run-in,
- sail into,
- scrap,
- screw up,
- secure,
- send off,
- set,
- set about,
- set at,
- set forward,
- set going,
- set in,
- set out,
- set sail,
- set to work,
- shindy,
- spar,
- spat,
- squabble,
- start,
- start in,
- start off,
- start out,
- tackle,
- take off,
- take on,
- take up,
- tiff,
- tighten,
- trice up,
- trim,
- turn to,
- undertake,
- venture upon,
- verbal engagement,
- wade into,
- war of words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- acrostic
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- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- calembour,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- formation,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- affectation,
- command of language,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- inflation,
- literary style,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- stylistic analysis,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- trick,
- vein,
- way
- abuse of terms,
- agonizing,
- catachresis,
- contorting,
- corruption,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- error,
- false coloring,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- harrowing,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misrepresentation,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- perversion,
- racking,
- slanting,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- tearing,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- twisting,
- wrenching
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word
- sutra
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- a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization related words >
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- teaching,
- text,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- absolutely,
- actually,
- all joking aside,
- artlessly,
- authentically,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- broadly,
- brusquely,
- candidly,
- de facto,
- directly,
- frankly,
- guilelessly,
- honestly,
- in actuality,
- in all conscience,
- in all seriousness,
- in effect,
- in fact,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- in reality,
- ingenuously,
- legitimately,
- manifestly,
- naturally,
- obviously,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- outspokenly,
- plain-spokenly,
- plainly,
- positively,
- really,
- roundly,
- simply,
- sincerely,
- straightforwardly,
- truly,
- unaffectedly,
- unassumedly,
- unconstrainedly,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- veridically,
- veritably,
- warts and all,
- with no nonsense
- affectation,
- command of language,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- inflation,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- trick,
- vein,
- way
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- clock-watching,
- ducking,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulking,
- slacking,
- soldiering,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tax dodging,
- tax evasion,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- truancy,
- weasel words,
- welshing
- accents,
- banging,
- blasting,
- bursting,
- chatter,
- colloquial discourse,
- colloquy,
- comment,
- communication,
- communion,
- conversation,
- converse,
- conversing,
- cracking,
- crashing,
- discourse,
- elocution,
- exchange,
- exploding,
- explosive,
- flapping,
- gab,
- give-and-take,
- intercourse,
- interlocution,
- knocking,
- language,
- oral communication,
- palaver,
- parole,
- popping,
- prattle,
- slapping,
- slatting,
- speaking,
- speech,
- talk,
- talking,
- tapping,
- verbal intercourse,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- Chinese boxing,
- Kilkenny cats,
- aggressive,
- all-out war,
- altercation,
- antagonistic,
- appeal to arms,
- argument,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bout,
- boxing,
- boxing match,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- close fighting,
- combat,
- combative,
- conflict,
- contending,
- contention,
- contentious,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestant,
- contestation,
- contesting,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- disputant,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- enemy,
- enmity,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fisticuffs,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- hostilities,
- hostility,
- hot war,
- infighting,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- la guerre,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- martial,
- might of arms,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- military operations,
- offensive,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- paper war,
- polemic,
- prizefight,
- prizefighting,
- pugilism,
- pugnacious,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- resort to arms,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- savate,
- scrapping,
- scrappy,
- shadowboxing,
- shooting war,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spar,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- striving,
- struggle,
- struggling,
- the clinches,
- the fights,
- the ring,
- the sword,
- total war,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warmaking,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wartime,
- words,
- wrangling
- dictionary
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- a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them related words >
- biographical dictionary,
- cant,
- chemical dictionary,
- desk dictionary,
- dialect dictionary,
- dictionary of quotations,
- electronics dictionary,
- etymological dictionary,
- foreign-language dictionary,
- gazetteer,
- general dictionary,
- geological dictionary,
- gloss,
- glossary,
- gradus,
- jargon,
- language,
- lexicon,
- nomenclator,
- onomasticon,
- palaver,
- phrase book,
- polyglot dictionary,
- promptorium,
- rhyming dictionary,
- science dictionary,
- slang dictionary,
- specialized dictionary,
- synonym dictionary,
- synonymy,
- terminology,
- thesaurus,
- treasury of words,
- unabridged dictionary,
- vocabulary,
- word list,
- wordbook
- chin
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- the protruding part of the lower jaw
- raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar related words >
- bandy words,
- bat the breeze,
- beat the gums,
- button,
- causerie,
- chat,
- chew the fat,
- chew the rag,
- colloque,
- colloquize,
- commerce with,
- commune with,
- communicate,
- communicate with,
- confab,
- confabulate,
- converse,
- converse with,
- discourse with,
- jaw,
- mentum,
- prose,
- rap,
- shoot the breeze,
- speak with,
- spiel,
- take counsel with,
- talk,
- talk together,
- visit,
- visit with,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak,
- yap,
- yarn
- verbalize
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- convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized"
- be verbose; "This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious" related words >
- air,
- articulate,
- breathe,
- chime,
- chorus,
- come out with,
- communicate,
- convey,
- couch in terms,
- deliver,
- disclose,
- emit,
- enunciate,
- express,
- fling off,
- formulate,
- give,
- give expression,
- give out with,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- impart,
- let out,
- lip,
- out with,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- pour forth,
- present,
- pronounce,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- raise,
- say,
- set forth,
- sound,
- state,
- talk,
- tell,
- throw off,
- utter,
- vent,
- ventilate,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- whisper,
- word
- thrash out
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- discuss vehemently in order to reach a solution or an agreement; "The leaders of the various Middle Eastern countries are trying to hammer out a peace agreement" related words >
- agitate,
- appraise,
- argue,
- argufy,
- assess,
- bandy words,
- bicker,
- canvass,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- cavil,
- choplogic,
- class,
- classify,
- contend,
- contest,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- discept,
- dispute,
- evaluate,
- factor,
- gauge,
- give and take,
- group,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- identify,
- join issue,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- pettifog,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- quibble,
- sift,
- sort,
- sort out,
- spar,
- take sides,
- try conclusions,
- weigh,
- winnow,
- wrangle
- culmination
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- (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon related words >
- Z,
- accomplishment,
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- apex,
- apodosis,
- apogee,
- bitter end,
- brow,
- cap,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- climax,
- close,
- closure,
- cloud nine,
- coda,
- completing,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- doom,
- edge,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- finishing,
- fulfillment,
- full development,
- goal,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last word,
- last words,
- latter end,
- limit,
- maturation,
- maturity,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- omega,
- payoff,
- peak,
- perfection,
- period,
- peroration,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- quietus,
- realization,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- ridge,
- ripeness,
- rounding off,
- rounding out,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- spire,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- summit,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- topping off,
- topping-off,
- ultimate,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- vertex,
- very top,
- windup,
- zenith
- misconstrue
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- interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" related words >
- bias,
- color,
- contort,
- distort,
- err,
- garble,
- get one wrong,
- get wrong,
- gloss,
- judge amiss,
- misapply,
- misappreciate,
- misapprehend,
- miscalculate,
- miscite,
- miscompute,
- misconceive,
- misconjecture,
- misdeem,
- misdirect,
- misesteem,
- misestimate,
- misevaluate,
- misexplain,
- misexplicate,
- misexpound,
- misinterpret,
- misjudge,
- misquote,
- misread,
- misreckon,
- misrender,
- misrepresent,
- mistake,
- misthink,
- mistranslate,
- misunderstand,
- misuse,
- misvalue,
- pervert,
- slant,
- squeeze,
- strain,
- strain the sense,
- torture,
- twist the words,
- varnish,
- wrench
- chastise
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- censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" related words >
- admonish,
- baste,
- beat,
- belabor,
- berate,
- birch,
- bring to account,
- bring to book,
- call to account,
- cane,
- castigate,
- censure,
- chasten,
- chide,
- correct,
- deal with,
- discipline,
- flog,
- have words with,
- inflict upon,
- lecture,
- masthead,
- objurgate,
- penalize,
- pillory,
- pummel,
- punish,
- rate,
- rebuke,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reprove,
- scold,
- scourge,
- set down,
- set straight,
- settle with,
- spank,
- square accounts,
- straighten out,
- take down,
- take to task,
- thrash,
- upbraid,
- visit upon,
- whip
- Kilkenny cats,
- aflicker,
- aggressive,
- aggressiveness,
- altercation,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerent,
- bicker,
- blinking,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- cat-and-dog life,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- combat,
- combative,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dancing,
- debate,
- defense,
- disputation,
- disputatious,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- divisive,
- dodging,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- eristic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faction,
- factional,
- factious,
- factiousness,
- fencing,
- fighting,
- flak,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- flyting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- hedging,
- hostility,
- hubbub,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irascible,
- irritability,
- irritable,
- lambent,
- litigation,
- litigious,
- litigiousness,
- logic-chopping,
- logomachy,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- paper war,
- parrying,
- partisan,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- passage of arms,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- playing,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- prevarication,
- pugnacious,
- pugnacity,
- pussyfooting,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibbling,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- run-in,
- scrapping,
- set-to,
- shifting,
- shrewish,
- shrewishness,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- stroboscopic,
- struggle,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- verbal engagement,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- terminology
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- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology" related words >
- antonomasia,
- argot,
- binomial nomenclature,
- biosystematics,
- biosystematy,
- cant,
- class,
- classification,
- dictionary,
- family,
- gazetteer,
- genus,
- gibberish,
- glossary,
- glossology,
- gobbledygook,
- gradus,
- jargon,
- kingdom,
- language,
- lexicon,
- lingo,
- locutions,
- nomenclator,
- nomenclature,
- onomastics,
- onomatology,
- order,
- orismology,
- palaver,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- phylum,
- place-names,
- place-naming,
- polyonymy,
- promptorium,
- shoptalk,
- species,
- systematics,
- taxonomy,
- terms,
- thesaurus,
- toponymy,
- trinomialism,
- vocabulary,
- word list,
- wording,
- words
- misreading
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- misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading related words >
- abuse of terms,
- catachresis,
- contorting,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- error,
- error in judgment,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- injudiciousness,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misappreciation,
- misapprehension,
- miscalculation,
- miscitation,
- miscomputation,
- misconception,
- misconjecture,
- misconstruction,
- misestimation,
- misevaluation,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- misvaluation,
- perversion,
- poor judgment,
- skewed judgment,
- squeezing,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- wrenching,
- wrong construction,
- wrong impression
- denouement
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- the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
- the outcome of a complex sequence of events related words >
- Z,
- accomplishment,
- action,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- answer,
- apodosis,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- ascertainment,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bitter end,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- characterization,
- clearing up,
- climax,
- coda,
- color,
- completion,
- complication,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- crack of doom,
- cracking,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- design,
- destination,
- destiny,
- determination,
- development,
- device,
- disentanglement,
- doom,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- episode,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- explanation,
- fable,
- falling action,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- finis,
- finish,
- gimmick,
- goal,
- incident,
- interpretation,
- issue,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- line,
- local color,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mythos,
- omega,
- outcome,
- payoff,
- period,
- peripeteia,
- peroration,
- plan,
- plot,
- quietus,
- reason,
- recognition,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- resting place,
- result,
- riddling,
- rising action,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- slant,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- swan song,
- switch,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- topic,
- twist,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- windup,
- working,
- working-out
- around the bush,
- back and fill,
- bargain,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- chaffer,
- choplogic,
- dicker,
- dodge,
- duck,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- falsify,
- fence,
- fib,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- higgle,
- huckster,
- hum and haw,
- lie,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- parry,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pussyfoot,
- quibble,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- split hairs,
- tergiversate,
- waffle,
- weasel
- misread
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- interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"
- read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data" related words >
- catachrestic,
- contort,
- distort,
- distorted,
- do amiss,
- eisegetical,
- garble,
- garbled,
- get one wrong,
- get wrong,
- gloss,
- misapply,
- misapprehend,
- misapprehended,
- miscall,
- miscite,
- misconceive,
- misconceived,
- misconduct,
- misconstrue,
- misconstrued,
- miscount,
- misdeal,
- misdeem,
- misemploy,
- misexplain,
- misexplicate,
- misexpound,
- misfield,
- misinterpret,
- misinterpreted,
- misjudge,
- mismanage,
- misplay,
- misprint,
- misquote,
- misrender,
- misreport,
- misspell,
- mistake,
- mistaken,
- mistranslate,
- misunderstand,
- misunderstood,
- misuse,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- squeeze,
- strain the sense,
- torture,
- twist the words,
- wrench
- abuse of terms,
- catachresis,
- clamping,
- clamping down,
- compression,
- concentration,
- contorting,
- crush,
- decoction,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- error,
- expression,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- infusion,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- nip,
- perversion,
- pinch,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- soaking,
- squeeze,
- steeping,
- tightening,
- torturing,
- tweak,
- twisting,
- wrenching
- flattery
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- excessive or insincere praise related words >
- accolade,
- adulation,
- apotheosis,
- ass-kissing,
- beguilement,
- bepraisement,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- brown-nosing,
- cajolery,
- congratulation,
- deification,
- eloge,
- encomium,
- eulogium,
- eulogy,
- exaltation,
- excessive praise,
- glorification,
- glory,
- hero worship,
- homage,
- hommage,
- honeyed words,
- honor,
- idolatry,
- idolizing,
- incense,
- kudos,
- laud,
- laudation,
- lionizing,
- magnification,
- meed of praise,
- oil,
- overpraise,
- paean,
- panegyric,
- praise,
- soft,
- soft soap,
- sweet talk,
- tribute,
- truckling,
- wheedling
- Z,
- annihilation,
- apodosis,
- bane,
- be lost,
- biological death,
- cash in,
- catastrophe,
- cease to be,
- cease to live,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- cessation of life,
- clinical death,
- coda,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- crossing the bar,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- demise,
- denouement,
- depart,
- depart this life,
- departure,
- destination,
- destiny,
- die,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- effect,
- end,
- end of life,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eternal rest,
- exit,
- expiration,
- expire,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fall,
- fall asleep,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final summons,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finger of death,
- finis,
- finish,
- go,
- go out,
- goal,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- izzard,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last,
- last breath,
- last debt,
- last gasp,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- omega,
- part,
- parting,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- payoff,
- period,
- perish,
- perishing,
- peroration,
- put off mortality,
- quietus,
- quit this world,
- release,
- resolution,
- rest,
- resting place,
- return to dust,
- reward,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- silence,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- stop breathing,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- succumb,
- summons of death,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- up and die,
- windup,
- yield the ghost
- directness
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- trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" related words >
- Atticism,
- appropriateness,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- childlikeness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- correctness,
- crystallinity,
- definition,
- dignity,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- explicitness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flatness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- genuineness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guilelessness,
- homespun,
- horizontalness,
- household words,
- inartificiality,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- leanness,
- limpidity,
- lineality,
- linearity,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naiveness,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- purity,
- rectilinearity,
- refinement,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- seemliness,
- severity,
- simpleheartedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- single-heartedness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of heart,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- straightness,
- structure,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- trustfulness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- unassumingness,
- unconstraint,
- unequivocalness,
- unguardedness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unmistakableness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unsophistication,
- unsuspiciousness,
- unswervingness,
- unwariness,
- vernacular,
- verticalness
- scintillate
collapse
- physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"
- give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes" related words >
- be brilliant,
- be merry with,
- blink,
- coruscate,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- glance,
- gleam,
- glimmer,
- glint,
- glisk,
- glisten,
- glister,
- glitter,
- jape,
- jest,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- quip,
- ridicule,
- scoff at,
- shimmer,
- spangle,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- tinsel,
- twinkle,
- utter a mot,
- wisecrack
- snug
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- well and tightly constructed; "a snug house"; "a snug little sailboat"
- offering safety; well protected or concealed; "a snug harbor"; "a snug hideout" related words >
- airtight,
- airworthy,
- anal,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- bold,
- brief,
- brusque,
- burrow,
- casual,
- cheerful,
- chipper,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- comfortable,
- comfy,
- commodious,
- compact,
- concise,
- contented,
- convenient,
- cosy,
- cozy,
- croodle,
- cuddle,
- curt,
- cushioned,
- cushiony,
- cushy,
- dinky,
- dissociable,
- dumb,
- dustproof,
- dusttight,
- easeful,
- easy,
- economical of words,
- fast,
- firm,
- fit for sea,
- friendly,
- gasproof,
- gastight,
- hermetic,
- hermetically sealed,
- homelike,
- homely,
- homey,
- homish,
- incompatible,
- indisposed to talk,
- insociable,
- intimate,
- laconic,
- lightproof,
- lighttight,
- lived-in,
- luxurious,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mum,
- mute,
- neat,
- nestle,
- nongregarious,
- nuzzle,
- oilproof,
- oiltight,
- orderly,
- peaceful,
- plain,
- quiet,
- rainproof,
- raintight,
- relaxing,
- reposeful,
- restful,
- roomy,
- sea-kindly,
- sealed,
- seaworthy,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- sheltered,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shut fast,
- silent,
- simple,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smart,
- smokeproof,
- smoketight,
- snug down,
- snug up,
- socially incompatible,
- soft,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- spick-and-span,
- spruce,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stormproof,
- stormtight,
- sullen,
- taciturn,
- tender,
- terse,
- tidy,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tongue-tied,
- trig,
- trim,
- tuck in,
- unclubbable,
- uncluttered,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unloquacious,
- unpretending,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- untalkative,
- warm,
- water-repellant,
- waterproof,
- watertight,
- weatherly,
- well-cared-for,
- well-groomed,
- well-to-do,
- windproof,
- windtight,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- argue,
- argufy,
- bicker,
- cavil,
- chew the fat,
- chew the rag,
- chin,
- choplogic,
- colloque,
- colloquize,
- commerce with,
- commune with,
- communicate,
- communicate with,
- confab,
- confabulate,
- contend,
- contest,
- converse,
- converse with,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- discept,
- discourse with,
- dispute,
- give and take,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- join issue,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- pettifog,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- quibble,
- shoot the breeze,
- spar,
- speak with,
- take counsel with,
- take sides,
- talk together,
- thrash out,
- try conclusions,
- visit with,
- wrangle
- stirrup cup
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- a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic related words >
- Godspeed,
- Mickey,
- Mickey Finn,
- adieu,
- aloha,
- aperitif,
- chaser,
- cocktail,
- conge,
- doch-an-dorrach,
- drink,
- eye-opener,
- farewell,
- good-bye,
- highball,
- knockout drops,
- leave,
- leave-taking,
- mixed drink,
- nightcap,
- parting,
- parting cup,
- parting words,
- pousse-cafe,
- punch,
- send-off,
- sundowner,
- valediction,
- valedictorian,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- viaticum,
- wee doch-an-dorrach
- proverb
collapse
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people related words >
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bromide,
- byword,
- catchword,
- cliche,
- coin a phrase,
- collected sayings,
- commonplace,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- homily,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- platitude,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- truism,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- hostility
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- a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"
- the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
- a state of deep-seated ill-will related words >
- Kilkenny cats,
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- action,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- allergy,
- altercation,
- animosity,
- animus,
- antagonism,
- anteposition,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- argument,
- aversion,
- bad blood,
- bad feeling,
- bellicism,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinism,
- clash,
- clashing,
- cold sweat,
- collision,
- combat,
- combativeness,
- competition,
- conflict,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contrast,
- controversy,
- counterposition,
- creeping flesh,
- cross-purposes,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- despitefulness,
- disaccord,
- disaffinity,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- disgust,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- enmity,
- ferocity,
- fierceness,
- fight,
- fighting,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- hard feelings,
- hardheartedness,
- hate,
- hatred,
- horror,
- hostilities,
- ill will,
- immediate dislike,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- jingoism,
- litigation,
- loathing,
- logomachy,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- martialism,
- militancy,
- militarism,
- mortal horror,
- nausea,
- negativeness,
- noncooperation,
- obstinacy,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- paper war,
- personality conflict,
- perverseness,
- perversity,
- polar opposition,
- polarity,
- polarization,
- polemic,
- posing against,
- pugnaciousness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsomeness,
- rancor,
- recalcitrance,
- refractoriness,
- repugnance,
- repulsion,
- rivalry,
- saber rattling,
- scrapping,
- showdown,
- shuddering,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- struggle,
- truculence,
- uncooperativeness,
- unfriendliness,
- unpeacefulness,
- vying,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warmongering,
- warpath,
- words,
- wrangling
- absolutely,
- dead,
- definitely,
- directly,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- flush,
- full,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- just,
- kerplunk,
- literally,
- literatim,
- matter-of-factly,
- naturally,
- plainly,
- plop,
- plumb,
- plump,
- plunk,
- positively,
- precisely,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- simply,
- smack,
- smack-dab,
- spang,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
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