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| Main Entry: |
cant
 [kant] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocritical statement |
| Synonyms: | affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean, slant |
| Synonyms: | angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip |
| Main Entry: | argot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | cant, dialect, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, slang, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary |
Example Sentences
- We have students walking around saying they have a college degree and still cant spell college.
- We try to hold on to some moral thread and cant help being full of pride.
- Cant make order of what they see in a sense its brain growth related too.
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean or tilt |
| Synonyms: | bend, camber, cant, incline, pitch, slant, slope |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diagonal weave of fabric |
| Synonyms: | angle, cant, cross, incline, oblique, slant |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Main Entry: | buzzword |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular word or phrase |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, doublespeak, fuzzword, jargon, lingo, mediaspeak, phraseology, policyspeak, slang |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, inclined plane, lean, leaning, level, obliquity, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade |
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