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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.

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Narrower term 50

Anagram 76% connected

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of…

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Antonym 76% connected

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

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Argument 76% connected

Proof; evidence.

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Argumentation 76% connected

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositi…

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Catchword 76% connected

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

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Charade 76% connected

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be…

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Classifier 76% connected

One who classifies.

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Cognate 76% connected

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.

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Coinage 76% connected

The act or process of converting metal into money.

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Conference 76% connected

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

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Contraction 76% connected

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or…

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Debate 76% connected

To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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Deictic 76% connected

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

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Deliberation 76% connected

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

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Derivative 76% connected

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivat…

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Dialogue 76% connected

A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

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Diminutive 76% connected

Below the average size; very small; little.

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Dissyllable 76% connected

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Heteronym 76% connected

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

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Homonym 76% connected

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.

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Hybrid 76% connected

The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

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Language 76% connected

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

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Loan 76% connected

A loanin.

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loanword 76% connected

A word borrowed from another language.

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Monosyllable 76% connected

A word of one syllable.

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Negotiation 76% connected

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

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Neologism 76% connected

The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.

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Neology 76% connected

The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of…

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Opposite 76% connected

Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

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Oxytone 76% connected

Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

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Palindrome 76% connected

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

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Paronym 76% connected

A paronymous word.

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Paroxytone 76% connected

A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

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Partitive 76% connected

Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.

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Polysyllable 76% connected

A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables,…

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Post-mortem 76% connected

After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.

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Primitive 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.

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Proparoxytone 76% connected

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

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Reduplication 76% connected

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

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Subordinate 76% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Substantive 76% connected

Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

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Synonym 76% connected

One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly t…

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Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Terminology 76% connected

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

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Trisyllable 76% connected

A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.

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Ventilation 76% connected

The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a…

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Vocable 76% connected

A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.

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Arcanum 76% connected

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural.

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Information 76% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Language 76% connected

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

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Secret 76% connected

Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Speech 76% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Manner of action 8

Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Couch 76% connected

To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

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Dogmatize 76% connected

To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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Formularize 76% connected

To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Redact 76% connected

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

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Articulate 74% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Articulate 74% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Component part 4

Affix 70% connected

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…

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Syllable 70% connected

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a wor…

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Testament 70% connected

A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

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Text 70% 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…

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Synonym 14

Articulate 92% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Bible 92% connected

A book.

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Book 92% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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Countersign 92% connected

To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attes…

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Discussion 92% connected

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

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Formulate 92% 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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Intelligence 92% connected

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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News 92% connected

A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intellige…

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Parole 92% connected

A word; an oral utterance.

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Password 92% connected

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

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Phrase 92% connected

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as,…

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Scripture 92% connected

Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.

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Tidings 92% connected

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

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Watchword 92% connected

A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person w…

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