Related Words:
- teacher
collapse - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
- a person whose occupation is teaching related words >
- Aaronic priesthood,
- Dutch uncle,
- Melchizedek priesthood,
- Polonius,
- Seventy,
- admonisher,
- adviser,
- advisor,
- apostle,
- backseat driver,
- bishop,
- boss,
- buttinsky,
- bwana,
- chef,
- chief,
- church dignitary,
- cicerone,
- coach,
- confidant,
- consultant,
- counsel,
- counselor,
- deacon,
- docent,
- doctor,
- dominie,
- don,
- ecclesiarch,
- educationist,
- educator,
- elder,
- employer,
- expert,
- fellow,
- forerunner,
- goodman,
- guide,
- guru,
- high priest,
- husband,
- instructor,
- kibitzer,
- lecturer,
- liege,
- liege lord,
- lord,
- lord paramount,
- master,
- meddler,
- mentor,
- mistress,
- monitor,
- nestor,
- orienter,
- overlord,
- padrone,
- paramount,
- paterfamilias,
- pathfinder,
- patriarch,
- patron,
- preceptist,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- preparer,
- priest,
- professor,
- rabbi,
- sahib,
- schoolmaster,
- schoolmistress,
- schoolteacher,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- starets,
- trailblazer,
- trainer,
- tutor
- hysteron proteron
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- the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
- reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born') related words >
- anastrophe,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- arsy-varsiness,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- chiasmus,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- clutter,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- fallacy,
- farrago,
- formal fallacy,
- hash,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hodgepodge,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- insincere argument,
- jumble,
- litter,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- mess,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- mishmash,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- palindrome,
- paralogism,
- parenthesis,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- scramble,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- unholy mess,
- verbal fallacy,
- weak point,
- welter
- liege
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- city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium
- a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
- owing or owed feudal allegiance and service; "one's liege lord"; "a liege subject" related words >
- ardent,
- bondmaid,
- bondman,
- bondslave,
- bondsman,
- bondswoman,
- boss,
- bwana,
- captive,
- chattel,
- chattel slave,
- chef,
- chief,
- church dignitary,
- churl,
- client,
- concubine,
- constant,
- creature,
- debt slave,
- dependent,
- ecclesiarch,
- elder,
- employer,
- feudal,
- feudatory,
- flunky,
- follower,
- galley slave,
- goodman,
- guru,
- hanger-on,
- helot,
- homager,
- husband,
- inferior,
- lackey,
- liege lord,
- liege man,
- liege subject,
- lord,
- lord paramount,
- loyal,
- master,
- minion,
- myrmidon,
- odalisque,
- overlord,
- padrone,
- paramount,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- patron,
- peon,
- rabbi,
- resolute,
- retainer,
- sahib,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- serf,
- servant,
- servile,
- slave,
- starets,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- stooge,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- teacher,
- theow,
- thrall,
- tributary,
- true,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- vassal,
- villein,
- yeoman
- formulation
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- the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
- a substance prepared according to a formula related words >
- allocation,
- allotment,
- apportionment,
- architecture,
- arrangement,
- array,
- arraying,
- assembly,
- building,
- casting,
- choice of words,
- collation,
- collocation,
- composition,
- constitution,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- deployment,
- devising,
- dialect,
- diction,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- distribution,
- elaboration,
- erection,
- expression,
- extraction,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- form,
- formation,
- forming,
- framing,
- grammar,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- idiom,
- language,
- locution,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- marshaling,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- order,
- ordering,
- parlance,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- placement,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- raising,
- refining,
- regimentation,
- rhetoric,
- shaping,
- smelting,
- speech,
- structuring,
- syntax,
- talk,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- wordage,
- wording,
- workmanship
- priest
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- a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
- a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion related words >
- Aaronic priesthood,
- Levite,
- Melchizedek priesthood,
- Seventy,
- abbe,
- abbess,
- abbot,
- acolyte,
- acolytus,
- apostle,
- baal kore,
- bishop,
- cantor,
- cassock,
- celibataire,
- celibate,
- chief rabbi,
- churchman,
- churchwoman,
- clergyman,
- clergywoman,
- cleric,
- confessor,
- curate,
- cure,
- deacon,
- diaconus,
- divine,
- doorkeeper,
- ecclesiastic,
- elder,
- evangelist,
- exorcist,
- exorcista,
- father,
- father confessor,
- father in Christ,
- gallach,
- high priest,
- holy man,
- holy orders,
- kohen,
- lector,
- major orders,
- man of God,
- minor orders,
- misogamist,
- misogynist,
- missionary,
- monastic,
- monk,
- mother,
- nun,
- ostiarius,
- padre,
- parish priest,
- patriarch,
- penitentiary,
- preacher,
- presbyter,
- rabbi,
- rabbin,
- reader,
- reverend,
- scribe,
- servant of God,
- single,
- spiritual director,
- spiritual father,
- subdeacon,
- subdiaconus,
- teacher,
- unmarried,
- vicar
- pretension
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- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- ancestor,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- astronaut,
- avant-garde,
- bellwether,
- buccinator,
- bushwhacker,
- camper,
- climber,
- coach,
- comers and goers,
- commuter,
- cosmopolite,
- cruiser,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- fare,
- forebear,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trotter,
- goer,
- groundbreaker,
- guide,
- hajji,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- innovator,
- instructor,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journeyer,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- mariner,
- mentor,
- messenger,
- mountaineer,
- palmer,
- passenger,
- passerby,
- pilgrim,
- pioneer,
- point,
- precedent,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- preparer,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- sailor,
- scout,
- sightseer,
- stormy petrel,
- straphanger,
- teacher,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- trainer,
- transient,
- traveler,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- viator,
- visiting fireman,
- voortrekker,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- wayfarer,
- world-traveler
- trailblazer
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- someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees related words >
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- ancestor,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- astronaut,
- avant-garde,
- bellwether,
- buccinator,
- bushwhacker,
- camper,
- climber,
- coach,
- comers and goers,
- commuter,
- cosmopolite,
- cruiser,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- fare,
- forebear,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trotter,
- goer,
- groundbreaker,
- guide,
- hajji,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- innovator,
- instructor,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journeyer,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- mariner,
- mentor,
- messenger,
- mountaineer,
- palmer,
- passenger,
- passerby,
- pathfinder,
- pilgrim,
- pioneer,
- point,
- precedent,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- preparer,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- sailor,
- scout,
- sightseer,
- stormy petrel,
- straphanger,
- teacher,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- trailbreaker,
- trainer,
- transient,
- traveler,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- viator,
- visiting fireman,
- voortrekker,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- wayfarer,
- world-traveler
- sophism
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- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone related words >
- apparent soundness,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- circularity,
- claptrap,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- empty words,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- formal fallacy,
- hysteron proteron,
- illogicality,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- invalidity,
- irrationality,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misapplication,
- moonshine,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rationalization,
- solecism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- unsoundness,
- verbal fallacy,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- weak point
- glibness
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- 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
- doctor
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- children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office; "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"
- a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
- a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
- give medical treatment to related words >
- Doctor of Medicine,
- GP,
- MD,
- Md,
- abecedarian,
- abet,
- adulterate,
- aid,
- allopath,
- allopathist,
- alter,
- assist,
- attend,
- attending physician,
- authority,
- avail,
- baccalaureate,
- baccalaureus,
- bachelor,
- bail out,
- bandage,
- bastardize,
- bathe,
- bear a hand,
- befriend,
- benefit,
- bones,
- care for,
- certified teacher,
- change,
- cobble,
- cobbler,
- comfort,
- commission,
- condition,
- contaminate,
- cook,
- coroner,
- corrupt,
- country doctor,
- croaker,
- cure,
- cut,
- darn,
- debase,
- degree,
- denaturalize,
- denature,
- diagnose,
- dilute,
- disguise,
- do good,
- do up,
- doc,
- docent,
- doctor up,
- doctorate,
- dominie,
- don,
- drug,
- ease,
- educationist,
- educator,
- elder,
- elder statesman,
- fake,
- falsify,
- family doctor,
- favor,
- fellow,
- fix,
- fix up,
- fixer,
- flux,
- fortify,
- general practitioner,
- give a boost,
- give a hand,
- give a lift,
- give care to,
- give help,
- great soul,
- guide,
- guru,
- heal,
- help,
- house physician,
- illuminate,
- instructor,
- intellect,
- intellectual,
- intern,
- juggle,
- lace,
- leech,
- lend a hand,
- lend one aid,
- little Miss Fixit,
- load,
- lover of wisdom,
- maestro,
- mahatma,
- maintenance man,
- man of intellect,
- man of wisdom,
- mandarin,
- manipulate,
- massage,
- master,
- mastermind,
- mechanic,
- mechanician,
- medic,
- medical,
- medical attendant,
- medical examiner,
- medical man,
- medical practitioner,
- medicate,
- medico,
- melamed,
- mend,
- mender,
- mentor,
- minister to,
- modify,
- mullah,
- nurse,
- operate on,
- oracle,
- overhaul,
- pack,
- pandit,
- patch,
- patch up,
- pedagogist,
- pedagogue,
- philosopher,
- physic,
- physician,
- physician in ordinary,
- plant,
- plaster,
- poison,
- pollute,
- poultice,
- preceptor,
- professor,
- proffer aid,
- protect,
- pundit,
- purge,
- put in commission,
- put in order,
- put in repair,
- put in shape,
- rabbi,
- rally,
- ready,
- rebuild,
- recap,
- reclaim,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- redeem,
- relieve,
- remedy,
- render assistance,
- renovator,
- repair,
- repairer,
- repairman,
- rescue,
- resident,
- resident physician,
- restore,
- restorer,
- resuscitate,
- retouch,
- retread,
- revamp,
- revive,
- rig,
- rishi,
- rub,
- sage,
- salt,
- sapient,
- savant,
- save,
- sawbones,
- scholar,
- schoolkeeper,
- schoolmaster,
- schoolteacher,
- seer,
- service,
- serviceman,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- sew up,
- sophisticate,
- spike,
- splint,
- stack,
- starets,
- strap,
- succor,
- take in tow,
- take medicine,
- take the cure,
- tamper with,
- teacher,
- thinker,
- tinker,
- tinker up,
- treat,
- trouble man,
- troubleshooter,
- undergo treatment,
- water,
- water down,
- weight,
- wise man,
- wise old man
- 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
- Gabriel,
- Mahdi,
- advertisement,
- advertiser,
- ancestor,
- announcement,
- announcer,
- antecedent,
- augury,
- author,
- avant-garde,
- bell cow,
- bell mare,
- bellwether,
- born leader,
- buccinator,
- buccinator novi temporis,
- bushwhacker,
- charismatic leader,
- choirmaster,
- choragus,
- coach,
- conductor,
- coryphaeus,
- duce,
- envoy,
- evangel,
- evangelist,
- example,
- exemplar,
- explorer,
- file leader,
- forebear,
- forefather,
- foregoer,
- foreshadow,
- foreshadower,
- foretoken,
- forewarning,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- groundbreaker,
- guide,
- harbinger,
- herald,
- herald angel,
- initiator,
- innovator,
- inspired leader,
- instructor,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- leader of men,
- mark,
- mentor,
- messenger,
- messiah,
- model,
- omen,
- originator,
- outrider,
- pacemaker,
- pacesetter,
- pathfinder,
- pattern,
- pioneer,
- point,
- portent,
- precedent,
- precentor,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- premise,
- premonition,
- premonitor,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- preparer,
- presage,
- presager,
- progenitor,
- prognostic,
- prototype,
- ringleader,
- scout,
- sign,
- standard-bearer,
- stormy petrel,
- symphonic conductor,
- symptom,
- teacher,
- token,
- torchbearer,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- trainer,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- voortrekker,
- warning
- scholar
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- a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
- a student who holds a scholarship related words >
- academic,
- academician,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- auditor,
- authority,
- autodidact,
- bookman,
- bookworm,
- brain,
- buff,
- classicist,
- clerk,
- colossus of knowledge,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- dilettante,
- doctor,
- educatee,
- egghead,
- elder,
- elder statesman,
- experimental scientist,
- expert,
- fan,
- freak,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- great soul,
- guru,
- highbrow,
- humanist,
- illuminate,
- inquirer,
- intellect,
- intellectual,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- learner,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- longhair,
- lover of learning,
- lover of wisdom,
- mahatma,
- man of intellect,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- man of science,
- man of wisdom,
- mandarin,
- master,
- mastermind,
- mentor,
- mine of information,
- monitor,
- nut,
- oracle,
- pedagogue,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polymath,
- practical scientist,
- praepostor,
- prefect,
- professor,
- pundit,
- pupil,
- rabbi,
- rishi,
- sage,
- sapient,
- savant,
- scholastic,
- schoolboy,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolman,
- scientist,
- seer,
- self-taught person,
- specialist,
- starets,
- student,
- studier,
- teacher,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- technologist,
- thinker,
- trainee,
- undergraduate,
- walking encyclopedia,
- wise man,
- wise old man
- 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
- lord
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- a titled peer of the realm
- make a lord of someone related words >
- Brahman,
- Christ,
- God,
- God Almighty,
- Jehovah,
- Jesus,
- Lord,
- affect,
- archduke,
- aristocrat,
- armiger,
- baron,
- baronet,
- beneficiary,
- blue blood,
- boss,
- bwana,
- cestui,
- cestui que trust,
- cestui que use,
- chef,
- chief,
- church dignitary,
- cock,
- count,
- daimio,
- deedholder,
- domineer,
- duke,
- earl,
- ecclesiarch,
- elder,
- employer,
- esquire,
- feoffee,
- feudatory,
- gentleman,
- goodman,
- grand duke,
- grandee,
- guru,
- hidalgo,
- householder,
- hubby,
- husband,
- lace-curtain,
- laird,
- landgrave,
- landlady,
- landlord,
- liege,
- liege lord,
- lord it over,
- lord paramount,
- lordling,
- magnate,
- magnifico,
- man,
- margrave,
- marquis,
- master,
- mesne,
- mesne lord,
- mister,
- mistress,
- monarch,
- noble,
- nobleman,
- old man,
- optimate,
- order about,
- overawe,
- overbear,
- overlord,
- owner,
- padrone,
- palsgrave,
- paramount,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- patrician,
- patron,
- peacock,
- peer,
- pontificate,
- pretend,
- proprietary,
- proprietor,
- proprietress,
- proprietrix,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- rabbi,
- rentier,
- ruler,
- sahib,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- silk-stocking,
- sovereign,
- squire,
- starets,
- swagger,
- swank,
- swell,
- teacher,
- the Almighty,
- the Creator,
- the Supreme Being,
- thoroughbred,
- titleholder,
- tyrannize,
- upper-cruster,
- viscount,
- waldgrave
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- coach
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- a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
- a person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting)
- (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew"
- drive a coach related words >
- Privatdocent,
- Privatdozent,
- Pullman,
- Pullman car,
- advise,
- advocate,
- amateur athlete,
- archer,
- athlete,
- athletic coach,
- baggage car,
- ballplayer,
- barge,
- baseballer,
- baseman,
- batter,
- battery,
- blocking back,
- boat,
- bowman,
- boxcar,
- brief,
- bus,
- caboose,
- car,
- carriage,
- cart,
- catcher,
- center,
- chair car,
- coacher,
- coal car,
- competitor,
- confer,
- consult with,
- counsel,
- covered waggon,
- cram,
- cram with facts,
- crammer,
- cricketer,
- day coach,
- defensive lineman,
- diner,
- dinghy,
- dining car,
- direct,
- drawing room,
- dray,
- drill,
- driller,
- drillmaster,
- end,
- exercise,
- ferry,
- flat,
- flatcar,
- float,
- footballer,
- forerunner,
- games-player,
- gamester,
- gondola,
- groomer,
- guard,
- guide,
- infielder,
- instruct,
- instructor,
- jock,
- jumper,
- kibitz,
- lighter,
- lineman,
- local,
- luggage van,
- mail car,
- mail van,
- meddle,
- mentor,
- motor coach,
- offensive lineman,
- omnibus,
- outfield,
- outfielder,
- palace car,
- parlor car,
- passenger car,
- pathfinder,
- player,
- poloist,
- preparationist,
- preparator,
- prepare,
- preparer,
- prescribe,
- prime,
- private instructor,
- professional athlete,
- prompt,
- propose,
- pugilist,
- quarterback,
- racer,
- raft,
- railway car,
- recommend,
- reefer,
- refrigerator car,
- roomette,
- school,
- ship,
- skater,
- sled,
- sledge,
- sleeper,
- smoker,
- smoking car,
- sport,
- sportsman,
- stockcar,
- stuff with knowledge,
- submit,
- suggest,
- tackle,
- tailback,
- tank,
- teacher,
- tender,
- toxophilite,
- trailblazer,
- train,
- trainer,
- truck,
- tutor,
- tutorer,
- van,
- waggon,
- wagon,
- wheelbarrow,
- wingback,
- wrestler
- frill
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- 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
- acmatic,
- all-absorbing,
- anointed king,
- apical,
- arch,
- ascendant,
- at the head,
- banner,
- basic,
- best,
- boss,
- bwana,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chef,
- chief,
- chieftain,
- choice,
- church dignitary,
- commanding,
- consummate,
- controlling,
- crowned head,
- crowning,
- dominant,
- dynast,
- ecclesiarch,
- elder,
- elect,
- electronics king,
- elite,
- emperor,
- employer,
- essential,
- first,
- focal,
- for the best,
- foremost,
- general,
- goodman,
- governing,
- grand duke,
- great,
- greatest,
- guru,
- handpicked,
- head,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- high chief,
- highest,
- honcho,
- husband,
- imperator,
- in ascendancy,
- in charge,
- in chief,
- in the ascendant,
- king,
- king-emperor,
- kinglet,
- lead,
- leading,
- leading light,
- liege,
- liege lord,
- lord,
- lord paramount,
- luminary,
- magisterial,
- main,
- majesty,
- master,
- master spirit,
- matchless,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- monarch,
- optimal,
- optimum,
- overbearing,
- overlord,
- overmost,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- padrone,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- patron,
- peerless,
- petty king,
- picked,
- potentate,
- predominant,
- predominate,
- preeminent,
- premier,
- prepollent,
- preponderant,
- preponderate,
- prepotent,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prima donna,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- prince,
- prince consort,
- principal,
- prize,
- quintessential,
- rabbi,
- ranking,
- regnant,
- regulating,
- regulative,
- regulatory,
- reigning,
- requisite,
- royal,
- royal personage,
- royalty,
- ruler,
- ruling,
- sahib,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- select,
- sovereign,
- star,
- starets,
- stellar,
- summital,
- supereminent,
- superstar,
- supreme,
- surpassing,
- suzerain,
- teacher,
- tetrarch,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top dog,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- ultimate,
- unmatchable,
- unmatched,
- unparalleled,
- unsurpassed,
- upmost,
- uppermost,
- vertical,
- very best,
- vital,
- zenithal
- Dutch uncle,
- Polonius,
- admonisher,
- admonition,
- advice,
- advise,
- advise with,
- advisement,
- adviser,
- advising,
- advisor,
- advocacy,
- advocate,
- agent,
- aim,
- ambition,
- amicus curiae,
- animus,
- aspiration,
- attorney,
- attorney-at-law,
- backseat driver,
- bar,
- bargain,
- barrister,
- barrister-at-law,
- brief,
- briefing,
- brooding,
- buttinsky,
- call in,
- caution,
- caveat,
- coach,
- collogue,
- compare notes,
- confer,
- confer with,
- confidant,
- consideration,
- consult,
- consult with,
- consultant,
- consultation,
- contemplation,
- council,
- counselor,
- counselor-at-law,
- deliberate,
- deliberation,
- deputy,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- design,
- desire,
- determination,
- direct,
- direction,
- discuss,
- discuss with,
- discussion,
- effect,
- exchange observations,
- exchange views,
- exhortation,
- expert,
- expostulation,
- fixed purpose,
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