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Confabulation

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

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Chitchat 76% connected

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

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Gab 76% connected

The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

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Gossip 76% connected

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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Tittle-tattle 76% connected

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.

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Conversation 76% connected

General course of conduct; behavior.

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Memory 76% connected

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

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Chaffer 74% connected

One who chaffs.

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Chaffer 74% connected

One who chaffs.

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Confabulate 74% connected

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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Confabulate 74% connected

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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Chat 92% connected

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

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Confab 92% connected

Familiar talk or conversation.

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Compensation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

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Conversion noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…

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Defence noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defence mechanism noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defence reaction noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defense noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defense mechanism noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defense reaction noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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Defensive attribution noun · 86% connection

A tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.; "Previous research…

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Denial noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts

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Displacement noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

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Idealisation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Idealization noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad

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Intellectualisation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Intellectualization noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Isolation noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated…

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Passive aggression noun · 86% connection

indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to acco…

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Projection noun · 86% connection

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

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Words connected by meaning

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Abrupt adjective · 78% connection

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Abruptness noun · 78% connection

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Affability noun · 78% connection

a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Affableness noun · 78% connection

a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Amiability noun · 78% connection

a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Amiableness noun · 78% connection

a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Aunty noun · 78% connection

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Bluff adjective · 78% connection

Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Blunt adjective · 78% connection

Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Bonhomie noun · 78% connection

a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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Chatty adjective · 78% connection

Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: familiar, talk, easy, unrestrained, unceremonious.
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