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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | language |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tommyrot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, piffle, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rigmarole, rot, rubbish*, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, trash*, tripe, twaddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verbalization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discourse, discussion, double talk, doublespeak, elocution, enunciation, expressing, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue, native tongue, oral communication, palaver*, parlance, prattle, pronunciation, prose, speaking, spiel*, talk, tone, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocal expression, vocalization, vocalizing, voice, voicing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | conversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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chatty, colloquial, conversable, conversational, conversing, discoursive, discursive, interlocutory
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| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Tudesque, allophyllan, analytic, aphoristic, argotic, aureate, axiomatic, belletristic, bilingual, colloquial, conditional, conjugate, copulative, coradicate, current, cursive, derivative, diachronic, dialectic, diglot, effable, elliptical, emphatic, epicene, euphemism, euphuistic, expressed, factitive, feuilletonistic, flowery, formal, fustian, gazooly, glottogonic, grammatical, grandiloquent, heteroclite, hieratic, highfalutin, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, holocryptic, holophrastic, homoglot, idiomatic, impersonal, imsonic, inaccurate, incorrect, informal, interlingual, irregular, laconic, lexical, lexicologic, lexiphanic, lingual, linguished, linguistic, literal, literary, literose, logofascinated, macaronic, monepic, monoglot, multilingual, neologic, neological, nominal, nonstandard, notorious, ornate, paradigmatic, paronomastic, paronymous, pauciloquent, periphrastic, phatic, phylacteric, pleonastic, polyglot, polysemous, polysynthetic, preterpluperfect, properispomenon, proverbial, regular, rhematic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sonorous, standard, substandard, suppletive, synchronic, syntactic, syntagmatic, synthetic, tautegorical, titular, togated, tralatitious, ungrammatical, verbal, vernacular, volitive, vulgar
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| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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absurd, egregious, extravagant, foolish, inconsistent, macaronic, nonsensical, preposterous, punning, quibbling, ridiculous, senseless, sophistical, unmeaning
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| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affected, alieniloquent, alliterative, altiloquent, antithetical, babblative, blandiloquent, bombastic, breviloquent, chrysostomatic, colloquial, communicate, communicative, concionative, declamatory, demegoric, diversiloquent, doctiloquent, drawling, elocutionary, eloquent, enunciative, euphuistic, explicit, expressive, facund, fallaciloquent, fatiloquent, flaming, flexiloquent, frothy, fustian, glossal, glossoepiglottic, gnomologic, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, inaniloquent, johnsonian, lingual, longiloquent, magniloquent, melliloquent, mendaciloquent, meropic, mincing, mouthy, multiloquent, not written, nuncupatory, omniloquent, oral, oratorical, orotund, outspoken, parrhesiastic, peripatetic, periphrastic, phatic, phemic, phonetic, phoniatric, plain, platitudinarian, pleniloquent, polyloquent, procacious, published, renable, rhetorical, sanctiloquent, sententious, sesquipedalian, sialoquent, singsong, slangous, soliloquacious, soliloqual, soliloquizing, somniloquacious, sonorous, spadish, speaking, spoken, stammering, stilted, stultiloquent, stuttering, suaviloquent, talkable, talkative, telepheme, totutiloquent, tremulous, tub, unlarded, unwritten, vaniloquent, ventose, veriloquent
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| Concept: | Business. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case., matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty., part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career., office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service (servitude); engagement; undertaking., vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade (commerce)., exercise; work (action); avocation; press of business (activity).
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