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Demonstrative

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.

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Effusive 84% connected

Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

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Effusive 84% connected

Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

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Epideictic 84% connected

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

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Epideictic 84% connected

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

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Gushing 84% connected

of Gush

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Gushing 84% connected

of Gush

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Broader term 1

Pronoun 76% connected

A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and t…

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Derivationally related 6

Manifest 74% connected

Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehens…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Manifest 74% connected

Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehens…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prove 74% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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Prove 74% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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See also 2

Unreserved 66% connected

Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained.

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Unreserved 66% connected

Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained.

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Synonym 1

Illustrative 92% connected

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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