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articulate
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient, pushover, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | integrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix, merge |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, amalgamate, arrange, articulate, assimilate, associate, attune, blend, coalesce, combine, come together, compact, concatenate, concentrate, conform, conjoin, consolidate, coordinate, desegregate, embody, fuse, get together, harmonize, incorporate, interface, intermix, join, knit, link, meld with, mesh, orchestrate, organize, proportion, reconcile, reconciliate, symphonize, synthesize, systematize, throw in together, tune, unify, unite, wed |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Antonyms: | printed, written |
| Main Entry: | part |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break, disconnect |
| Synonyms: | articulate, break up, cleave, come apart, detach, dichotomize, disjoin, dismantle, dissever, disunite, divide, factor, itemize, particularize, partition, portion, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, slice, split, strip, subdivide, sunder, tear |
| Notes: | a part is any of the components of a whole; a portion is a part allotted to or regarded as belonging to someone; a piece is a part separated from the whole; a division is a part formed by classifying, cutting, partitioning - and so is a section, though it is generally smaller; a segment is a part separated along natural lines of division; a fragment is a small part, usually broken off |
| Antonyms: | connect, join |
| Main Entry: | pronounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words vocally |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulate, enunciate, phonate, say, sound, speak, stress, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice |
| Notes: | to announce is to make known publicly; to pronounce is to declare officially or formally |
| Antonyms: | mumble |
| Main Entry: | rhetorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
| Synonyms: | articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, hyperbolic, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy |
| Antonyms: | concise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | allege, articulate, assert, aver, blab, break silence, chat, chew*, communicate, converse, convey, declare, deliver, descant, discourse, drawl, enunciate, expatiate, express, gab, gas*, go*, jaw, lip, make known, make public, modulate, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, open one's mouth, perorate, pop off, pronounce, put into words, rap, say, shout, sound, speak one's piece, spiel*, spill, state, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | state |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | declare, assert |
| Synonyms: | affirm, air, articulate, asseverate, aver, bring out, chime in, come out with, deliver, describe, elucidate, enounce, enumerate, enunciate, explain, expound, express, give, give blow-by-blow, give rundown, interpret, narrate, pitch, present, pronounce, propound, put, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, say, set forth, speak, specify, spiel*, tell, throw out, utter, vent, ventilate, voice |
| Antonyms: | ask, question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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