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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation |
| Synonyms: | blab, blather, chat, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, loquacity, palaver*, prattle, small talk, talk, tongue-wagging, tête-à-tête, yak, yakkety-yak |
| Antonyms: | silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, articulation, brogue, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, doublespeak, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, lingua franca, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, verbalization, vernacular, vocabulary, vocalization, voice, word, wording |
| Notes: | don't use 'language' when you mean 'writing system' - Chinese is a spoken language with no characters; the Chinese writing system uses thousands of characters |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | piffle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, foolishness, futile talk, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, jive, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash*, useless words |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poppycock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, baloney, bull*, bunk, drivel, empty talk, foolery, foolishness, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, hot air, jive, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, palaver, prattle, rubbish, silliness, trash* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | powwow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion |
| Synonyms: | confab, confabulation, conference, consultation, council, get-together, huddle, meeting, palaver, parley, talk |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | rigmarole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | babble, balderdash, baloney, blather, bull, bunk, drivel, foolishness, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, hot air, jargon, jive, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, trash* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seminar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conference |
| Synonyms: | convention, discussion, forum, group discussion, meeting, open discussion, palaver, powwow, rap session, round table, symposium, workshop |
| Notes: | a seminary is a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis; a seminar is any meeting or conference for an exchange of ideas or a course offered for a small group of advanced students |
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