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Formulation

The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

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Americanism 76% connected

Attachment to the United States.

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Anglicism 76% connected

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.

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Approach 76% connected

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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Archaism 76% connected

An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Briticism 76% connected

A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.

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Cleaner 76% connected

One who, or that which, cleans.

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Cleanser 76% connected

One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.

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Colloquialism 76% connected

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

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Diction 76% connected

Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy…

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Framing 76% connected

of Frame

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Honorific 76% connected

Conferring honor; tending to honor.

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Hyperbolism 76% connected

The use of hyperbole.

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Idiom 76% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Nebula 76% connected

A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star cl…

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Parlance 76% connected

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

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Phraseology 76% connected

Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.

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Phrasing 76% connected

of Phrase

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Polish 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

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Sentimentalism 76% connected

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

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Starch 76% connected

Stiff; precise; rigid.

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Verbiage 76% connected

The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

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Wording 76% connected

of Word

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Compound 76% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Develop 74% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Develop 74% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Formulate 74% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Formulate 74% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Expression 92% connected

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…

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Preparation 92% connected

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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