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Western collapse: a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development; a sandwich made from a western omelet; lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"; relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"; of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch"

relation collapse: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together; (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"; an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

romance collapse: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life; the group of languages derived from Latin; relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"; tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"; have a love affair with

defamation collapse: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

veridical collapse: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson

falsity collapse: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity"

fictionalize collapse: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"

foliation collapse: the work of coating glass with metal foil; the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves; (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament; (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock; (botany) the process of forming leaves

lie collapse: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; position or manner in which something is situated; Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968); tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"; be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"; be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position; have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"; be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant"

fabrication collapse: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery); the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"; writing in a fictional form; a deliberately false or improbable account

allegory collapse: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

yenta collapse: (Yiddish) a woman gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal; (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant

bromide collapse: any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

enumerate collapse: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

efficacious collapse: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"

verity collapse: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

quantification collapse: the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something; a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')

exaggeration collapse: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; making to seem more important than it really is

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