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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introduction, approach |
| Synonyms: | advance, bid, conciliatory move, exordium, foreword, invitation, offer, opening, preamble, preface, prelude, prelusion, presentation, proem, prologue, proposal, proposition, signal, suggestion, tender |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, finish |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request for help |
| Synonyms: | address, adjuration, application, bid, call, claim, demand, entreaty, imploration, importunity, invocation, overture, petition, plea, prayer, proposal, proposition, question, recourse, requisition, solicitation, submission, suit, supplication |
| Antonyms: | denial, disavowal, disclaimer, refusal, retraction, revocation |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | advance, appeal, application, offer, overture, proposal, proposition |
| Main Entry: | foreword |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introduction to a document |
| Synonyms: | exordium, overture, preamble, preface, preliminary, prelude, prelusion, proem, prolegomenon, prologue |
| Notes: | the foreword is written by someone other than the author; the preface is written by the author or editor preface and foreword were once considered the same (Latin praefari 'speak before,' Germanic/Anglo-Saxon vorwort 'preface') but now preface is written by the author and foreword by someone else |
| Antonyms: | addendum, epilogue, postscript |
| Main Entry: | introduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | invitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proposal; asking |
| Synonyms: | allurement, appeal, attraction, begging, bid, bidding, call, challenge, compliments, coquetry, date, encouragement, enticement, feeler, ground, hit, incitement, inducement, invite, lure, motive, offer, open door, overture, paper, pass, petition, pressure, proffer, prompting, proposition, provocation, rain check, reason, request, solicitation, suggestion, summons, supplication, temptation, urge |
| Main Entry: | offer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proposal, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | action, attempt, bid, endeavor, essay, feeler, hit*, overture, pass*, pitch*, presentation, proposition, propoundment, rendition, submission, tender |
| Antonyms: | refusal, taking, withdrawal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual proposition |
| Synonyms: | advance, approach, overture, play, suggestion |
| Main Entry: | plea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | begging request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, intercession, orison, overture, petition, prayer, round robin, solicitation, suit, supplication |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
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