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exhortation
[eg-zawr-tey-shuhn, ek-sawr-] 
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exhortation
[eg-zawr-tey-shuhn, ek-sawr-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, urging |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, beseeching, bidding, caution, counsel, encouragement, enjoinder, entreaty, goading, incitement, instigation, lecture, persuasion, preaching, sermon |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command |
| Synonyms: | behest, bidding, dictate, direction, exhortation, injunction, instruction, mandate, order, precept, word |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long lecture |
| Synonyms: | address, chewing out, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, jeremiad, oration, philippic, reading out, screed, sermon, speech, spiel*, spouting, tirade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incentive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lure, inducement |
| Synonyms: | allurement, bait, carrot, catalyst, come-on, consideration, determinant, drive, encouragement, enticement, excuse, exhortation, goad, ground, impetus, impulse, incitement, influence, insistence, inspiration, instigation, motivation, motive, persuasion, provocation, purpose, rationale, reason, reason why, spring, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus, temptation, urge, whip |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, turn-off |
| Main Entry: | injunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decree |
| Synonyms: | admonition, ban, bar, behest, bidding, charge, command, demand, dictate, embargo, enjoinder, exhortation, instruction, mandate, order, precept, prohibition, ruling, word, writ |
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influencing to do, believe |
| Synonyms: | alignment, alluring, arm-twist, blandishment, brainwashing, cajolery, cogency, con*, conversion, enticement, exhortation, force, goose, hard sell, hook*, inducement, inveiglement, persuasiveness, potency, power, promote, pull*, seduction, sell*, snow job, soft soap, squeeze*, sweet talk, wheedling, winning over, working over |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, dissuasion, hindrance, prevention |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sermon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, moralism, pastoral, preach, preaching, preachment, tirade |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suggestion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advice, plan |
| Synonyms: | advancement, angle, approach, bid, big idea, bit*, brainchild, charge, commendation, exhortation, game plan, gimmick, hot lead, idea, injunction, instruction, invitation, lead, motion, opinion, outline, pitch, presentation, proffer, proposal, proposition, recommendation, reminder, resolution, scheme, setup, sneaking suspicion, steer*, submission, telltale, tender, testimonial, thesis, tip, tip-off |
| Antonyms: | declaration, demand, order, telling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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