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Admonition

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

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Broader term 5

Advice 76% connected

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

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Rebuke 76% connected

To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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Reprehension 76% connected

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

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Reprimand 76% connected

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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Reproof 76% connected

Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

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Narrower term 2

Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Lesson 76% connected

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one t…

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Derivationally related 6

Admonish 74% connected

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Admonish 74% connected

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Caution 74% connected

A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wa…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Caution 74% connected

A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wa…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Warn 74% connected

To refuse.

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Warn 74% connected

To refuse.

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Synonym 3

Admonishment 92% connected

Admonition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Monition 92% connected

Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Warning 92% connected

of Warn

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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