narration

Main Entry:
narration [na-rey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: description, reading
Synonyms: account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, report, story, storytelling, tale, telling, voice-over, yarn
Antonyms: concealment, suppression
Main Entry: anecdote
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: interesting or amusing story
Synonyms: chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn
Notes: an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident
Main Entry: announcement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proclamation, declaration
Synonyms: advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, communiqué, disclosure, dissemination, divulgence, edict, exposing, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, promulgation, publication, publishing, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement
Main Entry: chronicle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account, narrative
Synonyms: annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version
Main Entry: commentary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: analysis
Synonyms: annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, obiter dictum, observation, remark, review, treatise, voice-over
Main Entry: confession
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance of information
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assenting, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosing, disclosure, divulgence, enumeration, exposure, exposé, making public, narration, owning up, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revealing, revelation, song*, squawk, squeal, statement, story, telling, unbosoming, utterance
Notes: admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession
Antonyms: concealment, cover, denial, disavowal, secret
Main Entry: description
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account in speech, writing
Synonyms: ABCs, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, recital, recitation, record, recountal, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summarization, summary, tale, version, vignette, writeup, yarn
Antonyms: misrepresentation
Main Entry: expression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verbalization
Synonyms: announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, asseveration, choice of words, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, enunciation, execution, explanation, exposition, formulation, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronouncement, remark, rendition, set phrase, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, turn of phrase, utterance, vent, voice, voicing, word, writ
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