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incantation
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a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect
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abracadabra
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bewitchment
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conjuration
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conjurement
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devil
,
enchantment
,
evocation
,
exorcisation
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exorcism
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exsufflation
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hocus-pocus
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invocation
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magic formula
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magic words
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mumbo jumbo
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necromancy
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open sesame
,
rune
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sorcery
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witchcraft
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witchery
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wizardry
prehension
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abduction
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apprehension
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arrest
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arrestation
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bottling up
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capture
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catch
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catching
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clairvoyance
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collaring
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command
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comprehension
,
conception
,
conceptualization
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corking up
,
coup
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dragnet
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forcible seizure
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foreknowledge
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grab
,
grabbing
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grasp
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grip
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hold
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holding
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holding in
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ideation
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inhibition
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intellection
,
intelligence
,
keeping
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kidnapping
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locking in
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maintenance
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mastery
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mental grasp
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nabbing
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picking up
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power grab
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precognition
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preservation
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repression
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retainment
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retention
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retentiveness
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retentivity
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running in
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savvy
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seizure
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seizure of power
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snatch
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snatching
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suppression
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taking in
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taking into custody
,
tenacity
,
understanding
,
wisdom
openness
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characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
without obstructions to passage or view; "the openness of the prairies"
related words >
access
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accessibility
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admissibility
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admission
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amenableness
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apparentness
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approachability
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artlessness
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assimilation
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austerity
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availability
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baldness
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bareness
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big mouth
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bluffness
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bluntness
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broadness
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brusqueness
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candidness
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candor
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childlikeness
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clearness
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come-at-ableness
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common speech
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communicativeness
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completeness
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comprehension
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comprehensiveness
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comprisal
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conversableness
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coverage
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crystal-clearness
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defenselessness
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directness
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distinctness
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effusion
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effusiveness
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eligibility
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embodiment
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embracement
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encompassment
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envisagement
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evidence
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evidentness
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exhaustiveness
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exposure
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extroversion
,
flow of words
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flowing tongue
,
fluency
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fluent tongue
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flux de bouche
,
flux de paroles
,
flux of words
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forthrightness
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frankness
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freedom
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freeness
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garrulity
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garrulousness
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gassiness
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genuineness
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getatableness
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gettableness
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gift of gab
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glibness
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gregariousness
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guilelessness
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gush
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gushiness
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helplessness
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homespun
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hospitality
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household words
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impressionability
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inclusion
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inclusiveness
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incorporation
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influenceability
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ingenuousness
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innocence
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invitingness
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leanness
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liability
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long-windedness
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loose tongue
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loquaciousness
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loquacity
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malleability
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manifestness
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matter-of-factness
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membership
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movability
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naiveness
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naivete
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naivety
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nakedness
,
naturalness
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nonimmunity
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obtainability
,
obtainableness
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obviousness
,
open mind
,
open-mindedness
,
openheartedness
,
openness to sight
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outgoingness
,
outspokenness
,
overtness
,
palpability
,
participation
,
patentness
,
penetrability
,
perspicuity
,
persuadability
,
persuadableness
,
persuasibility
,
perviousness
,
plain English
,
plain dealing
,
plain speaking
,
plain speech
,
plain style
,
plain words
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plainness
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plainspokenness
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procurability
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procurableness
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prolixity
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prosaicness
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prosiness
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reachableness
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reception
,
receptiveness
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receptivity
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recipience
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responsiveness
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restrainedness
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roundness
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rustic style
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securableness
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severity
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simpleheartedness
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simplemindedness
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simpleness
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simplicity
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sincerity
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single-heartedness
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single-mindedness
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singleness of heart
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slush
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soberness
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sociability
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spareness
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spate of words
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starkness
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straightforwardness
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suggestibility
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susceptibility
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susceptivity
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swayableness
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talkativeness
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tangibility
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tolerance
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toleration
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trustfulness
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unadorned style
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unadornedness
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unaffectedness
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unconstraint
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unguardedness
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unimaginativeness
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unmistakableness
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unpoeticalness
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unquestionability
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unrepression
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unreserve
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unreservedness
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unrestraint
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unrestriction
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unreticence
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unsecretiveness
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unsophisticatedness
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unsophistication
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unsuppression
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unsuspiciousness
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untaciturnity
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unwariness
,
verbosity
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vernacular
,
visibility
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volubility
,
vulnerability
,
weakness
,
whole
,
windiness
frankly
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all joking aside
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bluffly
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bluntly
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broadly
,
brusquely
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candidly
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directly
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genuinely
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in all conscience
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in all seriousness
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in plain English
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in plain words
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openheartedly
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openly
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outspokenly
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plain-spokenly
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plainly
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roundly
,
sincerely
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straightforwardly
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unconstrainedly
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unreservedly
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unrestrainedly
,
with no nonsense
fluency
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the quality of being facile in speech and writing
skillfulness in speaking or writing
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Atticism
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abundance
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affluence
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afflux
,
affluxion
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amplitude
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appropriateness
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articulateness
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big mouth
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candor
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chasteness
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chastity
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chylifaction
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chylification
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clarity
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classicalism
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classicism
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clearness
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cloud of words
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comeliness
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command
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communicativeness
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concourse
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confluence
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conflux
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control
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conversableness
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copiousness
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correctness
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course
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crosscurrent
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current
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defluxion
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diffuseness
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diffusion
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diffusiveness
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dignity
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directness
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discrimination
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distinction
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downflow
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downpour
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drift
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driftage
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ease
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effortlessness
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effusion
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elegance
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elegancy
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eloquence
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extravagance
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exuberance
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facility
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fecundity
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felicitousness
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felicity
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fertility
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finish
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fittingness
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flow
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flow of words
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flowing
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flowing periods
,
flowing tongue
,
fluent tongue
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fluidity
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fluidness
,
flux
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flux de bouche
,
flux de paroles
,
flux of words
,
fluxility
,
fluxion
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formlessness
,
frankness
,
garrulity
,
garrulousness
,
gassiness
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
good taste
,
grace
,
gracefulness
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gracility
,
gregariousness
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gush
,
gushiness
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gushing
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inflow
,
juiciness
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lactation
,
lactescence
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limpidity
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liquefaction
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liquidness
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logorrhea
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long-windedness
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loose tongue
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loquaciousness
,
loquacity
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lucidity
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macrology
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milkiness
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mill run
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millrace
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moisture
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naturalness
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neatness
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onrush
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onward course
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openness
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outflow
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outpour
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overflow
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palilogy
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pellucidity
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perspicuity
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plainness
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pleonasm
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poetry
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polish
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prodigality
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productivity
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profuseness
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profusion
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prolificacy
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prolificity
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prolixity
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propriety
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purity
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race
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rampancy
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rankness
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redundancy
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refinement
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reiteration
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reiterativeness
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repetition for effect
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repetitiveness
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restraint
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rheuminess
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run
,
rush
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sappiness
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seemliness
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serosity
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set
,
simplicity
,
slickness
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slush
,
smoothness
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sociability
,
spate
,
spate of words
,
straightforwardness
,
stream
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succulence
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superabundance
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superfluity
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superflux
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suppuration
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surge
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talkativeness
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taste
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tastefulness
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tautology
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teemingness
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terseness
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tide
,
tirade
,
trend
,
unaffectedness
,
undercurrent
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undertow
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verbosity
,
volubility
,
water flow
,
wateriness
,
windiness
locution
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related words >
adjectival phrase
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antonym
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articulation
,
choice of words
,
clause
,
composition
,
construction
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dialect
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diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
free form
,
grammar
,
headed group
,
homograph
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homonym
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homophone
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idiom
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idiotism
,
language
,
langue
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lexeme
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
linguistic act
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linguistic form
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logos
,
manner of speaking
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metonym
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minimum free form
,
monosyllable
,
noun phrase
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paragraph
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parlance
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parol
,
parole
,
peculiar expression
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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
eschatology
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the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world
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Buddhology
,
Day of Judgment
,
Judgment Day
,
Mariolatry
,
Mariology
,
Mercersburg theology
,
Z
,
apodosis
,
apologetics
,
canonics
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
coda
,
conclusion
,
consummation
,
crack of doom
,
crisis theology
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
day of doom
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
dialogical theology
,
divinity
,
doctrinalism
,
doctrinism
,
dogmatics
,
doom
,
doomsday
,
effect
,
end
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
existential theology
,
expiration
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
goal
,
hagiography
,
hagiology
,
hierology
,
izzard
,
last
,
last breath
,
last days
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
logos Christology
,
logos theology
,
natural theology
,
neoorthodox theology
,
neoorthodoxy
,
omega
,
patristic theology
,
payoff
,
period
,
peroration
,
phenomenological theology
,
physicotheology
,
quietus
,
rationalism
,
religion
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
scholastic theology
,
secularism
,
soteriology
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
swan song
,
systematics
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
the Judgment
,
theology
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trump of doom
,
windup
back matter
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written matter following the main text of a book
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
acknowledgments
,
addendum
,
afterthought
,
appendix
,
article
,
back
,
bastard title
,
bibliography
,
book
,
catch line
,
catchword
,
chapter
,
chorus
,
clause
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
contents
,
contents page
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
copyright page
,
dedication
,
double take
,
dying words
,
endleaf
,
endpaper
,
endsheet
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
errata
,
fascicle
,
flyleaf
,
folio
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
fore edge
,
foreword
,
front matter
,
gathering
,
half-title page
,
head
,
imprint
,
index
,
inscription
,
introduction
,
last words
,
leaf
,
makeup
,
number
,
page
,
paragraph
,
parting shot
,
passage
,
peroration
,
phrase
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
preface
,
preliminaries
,
recto
,
refrain
,
reverso
,
running title
,
second thought
,
section
,
sentence
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
sheet
,
signature
,
subscript
,
subtitle
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
table of contents
,
tag
,
tail
,
text
,
title
,
title page
,
trim size
,
type page
,
verse
,
verso
chew the fat
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talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
related words >
bandy words
,
chew the rag
,
chin
,
colloque
,
colloquize
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
communicate with
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
converse
,
converse with
,
discourse with
,
shoot the breeze
,
speak with
,
take counsel with
,
talk together
,
visit with
reprove
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related words >
admonish
,
bring to book
,
call down
,
call to account
,
chasten
,
chastise
,
chide
,
correct
,
have words with
,
lecture
,
lesson
,
objurgate
,
rack
,
rate
,
rebuke
,
reprehend
,
reprimand
,
scold
,
set down
,
set straight
,
spank
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
upbraid
weasel word
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an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion
related words >
ambiguity
,
amphibology
,
counterword
,
dodging
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
evasion
,
fencing
,
parrying
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
prevarication
,
pun
,
shuffle
,
squinting construction
,
suppressio veri
,
tergiversation
,
weasel words
Parthian shot
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related words >
PS
,
addendum
,
address
,
affirmation
,
afterthought
,
allegation
,
answer
,
apostrophe
,
appendix
,
assertion
,
averment
,
back answer
,
back matter
,
caustic remark
,
chorus
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
comeback
,
comment
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
crack
,
cut
,
cutting remark
,
declaration
,
dictum
,
dig
,
double take
,
dump
,
dying words
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
exclamation
,
expression
,
fleer
,
flout
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
foolery
,
gibe
,
gibing retort
,
greeting
,
interjection
,
jab
,
jape
,
jeer
,
jest
,
last words
,
leg-pull
,
mention
,
mock
,
note
,
observation
,
parting shot
,
peroration
,
phrase
,
position
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
pronouncement
,
put-down
,
put-on
,
question
,
quip
,
reflection
,
refrain
,
remark
,
rude reproach
,
say
,
saying
,
scoff
,
scurrility
,
second thought
,
sentence
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
short answer
,
slam
,
slap
,
statement
,
subjoinder
,
subscript
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
swipe
,
tag
,
taunt
,
thought
,
twit
,
utterance
,
verbal thrust
,
word
bewail
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related words >
be sorry for
,
bemoan
,
deplore
,
dirge
,
elegize
,
give sorrow words
,
grieve
,
keen
,
knell
,
lament
,
moan
,
mourn
,
regret
,
repine
,
rue
,
rue the day
,
sigh
,
sing the blues
,
sorrow
,
weep
,
weep over
repine
collapse
express discontent
related words >
be sorry for
,
bemoan
,
bewail
,
deplore
,
dirge
,
elegize
,
fuss
,
give sorrow words
,
grieve
,
keen
,
kick
,
knell
,
lament
,
moan
,
mourn
,
murmur
,
regret
,
rue
,
rue the day
,
sigh
,
sing the blues
,
sorrow
,
wail
,
weep over
,
whine
chide
collapse
related words >
admonish
,
berate
,
bring to book
,
call down
,
call to account
,
chastise
,
correct
,
have words with
,
lecture
,
lesson
,
objurgate
,
rate
,
rebuke
,
reprehend
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprove
,
scold
,
set down
,
set straight
,
spank
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
tick off
,
upbraid
good bye
collapse
related words >
Godspeed
,
adieu
,
aloha
,
conge
,
departing
,
doch-an-dorrach
,
farewell
,
leave
,
leave-taking
,
leavetaking
,
parting
,
parting words
,
send-off
,
stirrup cup
,
valediction
,
valedictorian
,
valedictory
,
valedictory address
,
viaticum
parrying
collapse
related words >
bickering
,
boggling
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
fencing
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
logic-chopping
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
pettifoggery
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
weasel words
terse
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related words >
Attic
,
Ciceronian
,
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abrupt
,
aphoristic
,
aposiopestic
,
axiomatic
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
brief
,
brusque
,
chaste
,
classic
,
clear
,
clear-cut
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concentrated
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
direct
,
distilled
,
docked
,
dumb
,
easy
,
economical of words
,
elegant
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
finished
,
formulaic
,
formulistic
,
gnomic
,
graceful
,
gracile
,
gruff
,
incisive
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
lean
,
limpid
,
lucid
,
mum
,
mute
,
natural
,
neat
,
pellucid
,
perspicuous
,
petulant
,
pithy
,
plain
,
platitudinous
,
pointed
,
polished
,
precise
,
proverbial
,
pruned
,
pungent
,
pure
,
quiet
,
refined
,
reserved
,
restrained
,
round
,
rude
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
simple
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
straightforward
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
tart
,
tasteful
,
taut
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
trim
,
truncated
,
unaffected
,
ungracious
,
unlabored
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
donnybrook
collapse
related words >
Bedlam let loose
,
ado
,
affray
,
altercation
,
argument
,
bedlam
,
bicker
,
blast
,
blood feud
,
bobbery
,
bother
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
charivari
,
chirm
,
clamor
,
clangor
,
clap
,
clatter
,
commotion
,
contention
,
controversy
,
din
,
discord
,
dispute
,
disturbance
,
donnybrook fair
,
drunken brawl
,
dustup
,
embroilment
,
feud
,
fight
,
flap
,
fliting
,
foofaraw
,
fracas
,
fray
,
free-for-all
,
fuss
,
hassle
,
hell broke loose
,
helter-skelter
,
howl
,
hubbub
,
hue and cry
,
hullabaloo
,
imbroglio
,
jangle
,
knock-down-and-drag-out
,
logomachy
,
loud noise
,
melee
,
noise
,
noise and shouting
,
open quarrel
,
outcry
,
pandemonium
,
pell-mell
,
polemic
,
pother
,
quarrel
,
racket
,
rampage
,
rattle
,
rhubarb
,
riot
,
roar
,
rough-and-tumble
,
roughhouse
,
row
,
ruckus
,
ruction
,
rumble
,
rumpus
,
scramble
,
scrimmage
,
sharp words
,
shindy
,
shivaree
,
slanging match
,
snarl
,
spat
,
squabble
,
stir
,
strife
,
thunder
,
thunderclap
,
tiff
,
tintamarre
,
to-do
,
trouble
,
tumult
,
turmoil
,
tussle
,
uproar
,
vendetta
,
words
,
wrangle
bicker
collapse
a quarrel about petty points
related words >
altercate
,
argue
,
argufy
,
around the bush
,
bandy words
,
battle
,
beat
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker over
,
boggle
,
brawl
,
broil
,
caterwaul
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
clack
,
clatter
,
clitter
,
contend
,
contend about
,
contest
,
cross swords
,
cut and thrust
,
dance
,
differ
,
discept
,
dispute
,
dodge
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fall out
,
fence
,
feud
,
fight
,
fight over
,
flap
,
flick
,
flicker
,
flip
,
flit
,
flite
,
flitter
,
flop
,
flutter
,
give and take
,
go pitapat
,
gutter
,
hassle
,
have it out
,
have words
,
hedge
,
join issue
,
lock horns
,
logomachize
,
moot
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palpitate
,
palter
,
parry
,
pettifog
,
pick nits
,
pitter-patter
,
play
,
plead
,
polemicize
,
polemize
,
prevaricate
,
pulse
,
pussyfoot
,
quarrel
,
quarrel over
,
quibble
,
quiver
,
row
,
scrap
,
set to
,
shatter
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
slat
,
spar
,
spat
,
split hairs
,
splutter
,
sputter
,
squabble
,
squabble over
,
take issue with
,
take sides
,
tergiversate
,
thrash out
,
throb
,
tiff
,
try conclusions
,
war
,
wave
,
waver
,
wrangle
,
wrangle over
misrendering
collapse
related words >
abuse of terms
,
catachresis
,
contorting
,
distortion
,
eisegesis
,
error
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
malentendu
,
malobservation
,
misapplication
,
misapprehension
,
miscitation
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse of words
,
perversion
,
squeezing
,
torturing
,
twisting
,
wrenching
fencing
collapse
the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
related words >
bickering
,
boggling
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
logic-chopping
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
pettifoggery
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
swordplay
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
weasel words
idiom
collapse
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
traditionalism
collapse
adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
related words >
Mishnah
,
Spiritus Mundi
,
Sunna
,
Talmud
,
accommodation
,
accord
,
accordance
,
acquiescence
,
adaptation
,
adaption
,
adjustment
,
agreement
,
ancient wisdom
,
archetypal myth
,
archetypal pattern
,
authenticity
,
authoritativeness
,
canonicalness
,
canonicity
,
common law
,
compliance
,
conformance
,
conformation other-direction
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
consistency
,
conventionality
,
correspondence
,
custom
,
flexibility
,
folk motif
,
folklore
,
folktale
,
gospel truth
,
harmony
,
immemorial usage
,
keeping
,
legend
,
line
,
lore
,
malleability
,
myth
,
mythology
,
obedience
,
observance
,
orthodoxicalness
,
orthodoxism
,
orthodoxness
,
orthodoxy
,
pliancy
,
racial memory
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
religious truth
,
right belief
,
rightness
,
soundness
,
strictness
,
the truth
,
tradition
,
traditionality
,
uniformity
consummation
collapse
the act of bringing to completion or fruition
the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
related words >
Z
,
accomplished fact
,
accomplishing
,
accomplishment
,
achievement
,
achieving
,
acme
,
acme of perfection
,
apodosis
,
attaining
,
attainment
,
bitter end
,
carrying out
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
climax
,
closure
,
coda
,
completing
,
completion
,
conclusion
,
crack of doom
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
denouement
,
destination
,
destiny
,
discharge
,
dispatch
,
doom
,
effect
,
effectuation
,
end
,
end point
,
end result
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
execution
,
expiration
,
fait accompli
,
fate
,
final result
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
finishing
,
fruition
,
fulfilling
,
fulfillment
,
goal
,
height
,
highest pitch
,
implementation
,
izzard
,
last
,
last act
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last word
,
last words
,
latter end
,
mission accomplished
,
ne plus ultra
,
omega
,
payoff
,
peak
,
perfection
,
performance
,
period
,
peroration
,
pink
,
pink of perfection
,
pinnacle
,
production
,
quietus
,
realization
,
realizing
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
success
,
summit
,
swan song
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
top
,
topping-off
,
ultimate
,
windup
cutter
collapse
a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
someone who carves the meat
related words >
abridger
,
abstracter
,
analyzer
,
ax
,
baby tooth
,
bicuspid
,
blade
,
breaker
,
bucktooth
,
canine
,
centrifuge
,
cold steel
,
crown
,
cuspid
,
cutlery
,
dagger
,
deciduous tooth
,
dent
,
denticle
,
denticulation
,
dentil
,
dentition
,
dogtooth
,
edge tools
,
epitomist
,
epitomizer
,
eyetooth
,
fang
,
finisher
,
fore tooth
,
gagtooth
,
gang tooth
,
garmentmaker
,
garmentworker
,
gold tooth
,
grinder
,
incisor
,
knife
,
milk tooth
,
molar
,
naked steel
,
needleworker
,
peg
,
permanent tooth
,
pigsticker
,
pivot tooth
,
point
,
premolar
,
puncturer
,
scrivello
,
separator
,
sharpener
,
shortener
,
sieve
,
snag
,
snaggletooth
,
steel
,
stitcher
,
stripper
,
sword
,
toad sticker
,
tooth
,
tush
,
tusk
,
whittle
,
wisdom tooth
deplore
collapse
express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"
regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
related words >
be sorry for
,
bemoan
,
bewail
,
cry
,
deprecate
,
dirge
,
disapprove
,
elegize
,
give sorrow words
,
grieve
,
keen
,
knell
,
lament
,
moan
,
mourn
,
regret
,
repent
,
repine
,
rue
,
rue the day
,
sigh
,
sing the blues
,
sorrow
,
wail
,
weep
,
weep over
palindrome
collapse
a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
related words >
abuse of terms
,
acrostic
,
amphibologism
,
amphiboly
,
anagram
,
anastrophe
,
calembour
,
chiasmus
,
corruption
,
equivocality
,
equivoque
,
hypallage
,
hyperbaton
,
hysteron proteron
,
jeu de mots
,
logogram
,
logogriph
,
malapropism
,
metagram
,
metastasis
,
metathesis
,
missaying
,
parenthesis
,
paronomasia
,
play on words
,
pun
,
punning
,
spoonerism
,
synchysis
,
tmesis
,
wordplay
invective
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
abusive
,
address
,
after-dinner speech
,
allocution
,
assailing
,
assault
,
attack
,
berating
,
billingsgate
,
bitter words
,
blackening
,
blameful
,
calumny
,
causticity
,
censorious
,
chalk talk
,
condemnatory
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
contumely
,
cynicism
,
damnatory
,
debate
,
declamation
,
denunciatory
,
deprecative
,
deprecatory
,
depreciative
,
derisive
,
diatribe
,
disparaging
,
eulogy
,
execrating
,
execration
,
execrative
,
execratory
,
exhortation
,
filibuster
,
forensic
,
forensic address
,
formal speech
,
funeral oration
,
harangue
,
hard words
,
hortatory address
,
inaugural
,
inaugural address
,
innuendo
,
inveighing
,
irony
,
jawing
,
jeremiad
,
judgmental
,
objurgatory
,
obloquy
,
onslaught
,
opprobrious
,
opprobrium
,
oration
,
pep talk
,
peroration
,
philippic
,
pitch
,
prepared speech
,
prepared text
,
priggish
,
public speech
,
rating
,
reading
,
recital
,
recitation
,
reproachful
,
reprobative
,
revilement
,
reviling
,
ridiculing
,
sales talk
,
salutatory
,
salutatory address
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
satiric wit
,
say
,
scoffing
,
screed
,
scurrile
,
scurrility
,
scurrilous
,
set speech
,
speech
,
speechification
,
speeching
,
talk
,
talkathon
,
tirade
,
tongue-lashing
,
truculent
,
valediction
,
valedictory
,
valedictory address
,
vilification
,
vilifying
,
vituperation
,
vituperative
adieu
collapse
a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes"
related words >
Godspeed
,
aloha
,
by
,
bye-bye
,
conge
,
doch-an-dorrach
,
farewell
,
good-bye
,
leave
,
leave-taking
,
parting
,
parting words
,
send-off
,
so long
,
stirrup cup
,
valediction
,
valedictorian
,
valedictory
,
valedictory address
,
viaticum
suffix
collapse
an affix that is added at the end of the word
attach a suffix to; "suffix words"
related words >
IC analysis
,
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
accidence
,
add
,
addendum
,
addition
,
adjoin
,
affix
,
affixation
,
afterthought
,
agglutinate
,
allomorph
,
allonge
,
amend
,
annex
,
append
,
appendix
,
attach
,
back matter
,
bound morpheme
,
burden
,
chorus
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
commentary
,
complicate
,
conclusion
,
conjoin
,
conjugation
,
consequence
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
cutting
,
declension
,
decorate
,
derivation
,
desinence
,
difference of form
,
double take
,
dying words
,
enclitic
,
encumber
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
formative
,
free form
,
glue on
,
hitch on
,
immediate constituent analysis
,
infix
,
infixation
,
inflection
,
interlineation
,
interpolation
,
join
,
join with
,
last words
,
marginalia
,
morph
,
morpheme
,
morphemic analysis
,
morphemics
,
morphology
,
morphophonemics
,
note
,
ornament
,
paradigm
,
parting shot
,
paste on
,
peroration
,
plus
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
prefix
,
prefixation
,
proclitic
,
put with
,
radical
,
refrain
,
rider
,
root
,
saddle with
,
scholia
,
second thought
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
slap on
,
stem
,
subjoin
,
subscript
,
suffixation
,
superadd
,
superpose
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
tack on
,
tag
,
tag on
,
tail
,
theme
,
unite with
,
word-formation
flannel
collapse
a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
related words >
ballocks
,
blarney
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bushwa
,
cock
,
crap
,
eyewash
,
flatter
,
flattery
,
hedge
,
hogwash
,
humbug
,
mislead
,
nonsense
,
prevarication
,
rubbish
,
shit
,
soft soap
,
soft-soap
,
sweet talk
,
sweet-talk
,
waffle
,
weasel words
bemoan
collapse
related words >
be sorry for
,
bewail
,
complain
,
deplore
,
dirge
,
elegize
,
give sorrow words
,
grieve
,
grieve for
,
keen
,
knell
,
lament
,
moan
,
mourn
,
regret
,
repine
,
rue
,
rue the day
,
sigh
,
sing the blues
,
sorrow
,
weep
,
weep for
,
weep over
afterthought
collapse
an addition that was not included in the original plan; "the garage was an afterthought"
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
about-face
,
addendum
,
afterthoughts
,
appendix
,
back matter
,
better thoughts
,
bind
,
block
,
blockage
,
bureaucratic delay
,
change of mind
,
chorus
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
delay
,
delayage
,
delayed reaction
,
detention
,
developed thought
,
double take
,
dragging
,
dying words
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
flip
,
flip-flop
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
halt
,
hang-up
,
hindrance
,
holdup
,
interim
,
jam
,
lag
,
lagging
,
last words
,
logjam
,
mature judgment
,
mature thought
,
moratorium
,
obstruction
,
paperasserie
,
parting shot
,
pause
,
peroration
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
re-examination
,
reappraisal
,
reconsideration
,
red tape
,
red-tapeism
,
red-tapery
,
refrain
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
retardance
,
retardation
,
rethinking
,
revaluation
,
reversal
,
reverse
,
review
,
right-about
,
right-about-face
,
ripe idea
,
second thought
,
second thoughts
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
slow-up
,
slowdown
,
slowness
,
stay
,
stay of execution
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
subscript
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
suspension
,
swan song
,
tag
,
tergiversating
,
tergiversation
,
tie-up
,
time lag
,
turnabout
,
turnaround
,
volte-face
,
wait
apologia
collapse
related words >
apologetic
,
apologetics
,
apology
,
argument
,
argumentation
,
bicker
,
bickering
,
casuistry
,
clarification
,
contention
,
controversy
,
defense
,
disputation
,
dispute
,
elucidation
,
explanation
,
flyting
,
hassle
,
hubbub
,
interpretation
,
justification
,
litigation
,
logomachy
,
paper war
,
passage of arms
,
polemic
,
polemics
,
rhubarb
,
set-to
,
verbal engagement
,
war of words
,
wrangling
conjuration
collapse
related words >
abracadabra
,
charm
,
conjurement
,
escamotage
,
evocation
,
exorcisation
,
exorcism
,
exsufflation
,
hanky-panky
,
hocus-pocus
,
hokey-pokey
,
incantation
,
invocation
,
jiggery-pokery
,
jugglery
,
juggling
,
legerdemain
,
magic formula
,
magic words
,
monkey business
,
mumbo jumbo
,
open sesame
,
prestidigitation
,
rune
,
sleight of hand
,
trickery
fracas
collapse
related words >
Bedlam let loose
,
ado
,
affray
,
altercation
,
argument
,
barney
,
bedlam
,
bicker
,
bickering
,
blast
,
blood feud
,
bobbery
,
bother
,
brannigan
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
charivari
,
chirm
,
clamor
,
clangor
,
clap
,
clatter
,
commotion
,
contention
,
controversy
,
din
,
disagreement
,
discord
,
disorder
,
dispute
,
disturbance
,
donnybrook
,
donnybrook fair
,
drunken brawl
,
dustup
,
embroilment
,
feud
,
fight
,
flap
,
fliting
,
foofaraw
,
fray
,
free-for-all
,
fuss
,
hassle
,
hell broke loose
,
helter-skelter
,
howl
,
hubbub
,
hue and cry
,
hullabaloo
,
imbroglio
,
jangle
,
knock-down-and-drag-out
,
logomachy
,
loud noise
,
melee
,
noise
,
noise and shouting
,
open quarrel
,
outcry
,
pandemonium
,
pell-mell
,
polemic
,
pother
,
quarrel
,
racket
,
rampage
,
rattle
,
rhubarb
,
riot
,
roar
,
rough-and-tumble
,
roughhouse
,
row
,
ruckus
,
ruction
,
rumble
,
rumpus
,
run-in
,
scramble
,
scrap
,
scrimmage
,
scuffle
,
set-to
,
sharp words
,
shindy
,
shivaree
,
slanging match
,
snarl
,
spat
,
squabble
,
stir
,
strife
,
thunder
,
thunderclap
,
tiff
,
tintamarre
,
to-do
,
trouble
,
tumult
,
turmoil
,
tussle
,
uproar
,
vendetta
,
words
,
wrangle
curtains
collapse
related words >
Z
,
annihilation
,
apodosis
,
bane
,
biological death
,
catastrophe
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
cessation of life
,
clinical death
,
coda
,
conclusion
,
consummation
,
crack of doom
,
crossing the bar
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
death
,
death knell
,
debt of nature
,
decease
,
demise
,
denouement
,
departure
,
destination
,
destiny
,
dissolution
,
doom
,
dying
,
ebb of life
,
effect
,
end
,
end of life
,
end point
,
ending
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
eternal rest
,
exit
,
expiration
,
extinction
,
extinguishment
,
fate
,
final solution
,
final summons
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finger of death
,
finis
,
finish
,
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
,
parting
,
passing
,
passing away
,
passing over
,
payoff
,
period
,
perishing
,
peroration
,
quietus
,
release
,
resolution
,
rest
,
resting place
,
reward
,
sentence of death
,
shades of death
,
shadow of death
,
silence
,
sleep
,
somatic death
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
summons of death
,
swan song
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
windup
science
collapse
a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics"
related words >
academic discipline
,
academic specialty
,
applied science
,
area
,
arena
,
art
,
body of knowledge
,
branch
,
concern
,
craft
,
department of knowledge
,
discipline
,
domain
,
electrobiology
,
electrochemistry
,
electrokinetics
,
electromechanics
,
electrometallurgy
,
electrometry
,
electronics
,
electrooptics
,
electrophysics
,
electrostatics
,
electrotechnics
,
electrotechnology
,
erudition
,
expertise
,
field
,
field of inquiry
,
field of study
,
galvanism
,
information
,
knowledge
,
learning
,
lore
,
magnetics
,
mechanics
,
mechanism
,
method
,
natural science
,
ology
,
proficiency
,
province
,
pure science
,
realm
,
scholarship
,
skill
,
social science
,
specialty
,
sphere
,
study
,
subject
,
system
,
technic
,
technical know-how
,
technical knowledge
,
technical skill
,
technicology
,
technics
,
technique
,
technology
,
thermionics
,
wisdom
follow up
collapse
increase the effectiveness or success of by further action; "The doctor followed up the surgery with radiation"
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
addendum
,
afterthought
,
anamnesis
,
appendix
,
associative anamnesis
,
attend
,
back matter
,
carry through
,
case history
,
catamnesis
,
chase
,
chivy
,
chorus
,
coda
,
codicil
,
colophon
,
come after
,
conclusion
,
consequence
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
displace
,
dog
,
dogging
,
double take
,
dying words
,
emanate
,
ensue
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
exhaust every move
,
follow
,
follow a clue
,
follow after
,
follow out
,
follow through
,
follow-through
,
following
,
give chase
,
go after
,
go all lengths
,
go all out
,
go for broke
,
go the limit
,
hollo after
,
hound
,
hue and cry
,
hunt
,
hunt down
,
hunting
,
issue
,
last words
,
leave nothing undone
,
make after
,
medical history
,
nose
,
nose out
,
overlook nothing
,
overtake
,
parting shot
,
peroration
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
prosecute
,
prosecution
,
pursuance
,
pursue
,
pursuing
,
pursuit
,
quest
,
quest after
,
raise the hunt
,
refrain
,
replace
,
result
,
run after
,
run down
,
run to earth
,
search
,
searching
,
second thought
,
see it through
,
see out
,
seek
,
seek out
,
seeking
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
shadow
,
shadowing
,
smell out
,
sniff out
,
stalk
,
stalking
,
subscript
,
succeed
,
suffix
,
supervene
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
tag
,
tail
,
take out after
,
trace
,
trace down
,
track
,
track down
,
tracking
,
tracking down
,
trail
,
trailing
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