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Lyric

Alt. of Lyrical

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Emotional 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Emotional 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Compose 76% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Indite 76% connected

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

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Pen 76% connected

A feather.

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Poem 76% connected

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…

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Text 76% connected

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 1

Ode 76% connected

A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and approp…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Component part 2

Antistrophe 70% connected

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines o…

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Strophe 70% connected

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the…

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Containing whole 2

Song 70% connected

That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

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Vocal 70% connected

Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

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Opera 66% connected

A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, d…

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Synonym 2

Language 92% connected

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lyrical 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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