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Anecdote

Unpublished narratives.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Report 76% connected

To refer.

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Anecdotal 74% connected

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

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Anecdotal 74% connected

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

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Anecdotical 74% connected

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.

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Anecdotical 74% connected

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.

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Anecdotist 74% connected

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

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Anecdotist 74% connected

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

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deixis noun · 78% connection

the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communicatio…

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Illation noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Inference noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Speech act noun · 78% connection

the use of language to perform some act

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Address noun · 77% connection

the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"

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Affirmation noun · 77% connection

the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

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Agreement noun · 77% connection

the verbal act of agreeing

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Analogy noun · 77% connection

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

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Asking noun · 77% connection

the verbal act of requesting

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Assertion noun · 77% connection

the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

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Bid noun · 77% connection

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

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Bidding noun · 77% connection

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

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Boast noun · 77% connection

speaking of yourself in superlatives

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Boasting noun · 77% connection

speaking of yourself in superlatives

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Challenge noun · 77% connection

a call to engage in a contest or fight

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Citation noun · 77% connection

(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)

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Command noun · 77% connection

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

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Congratulation noun · 77% connection

the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration

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Gospel verb · 78% connection

One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Inedited adjective · 78% connection

Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript.

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Mythopoeic adjective · 78% connection

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.

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Prospectus noun · 78% connection

A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an un…

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Storybook noun · 78% connection

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

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