| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
| Synonyms: | admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, keep, secrete |
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, enounce, express, intone, lay down, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice |
| Antonyms: | mispronounce, muffle, mumble |
| Main Entry: | evidence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prove |
| Synonyms: | attest, bespeak, betoken, confirm, connote, demonstrate, denote, designate, display, evince, exhibit, expose, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, ostend, proclaim, reveal, show, signify, testify to, witness |
| Notes: | evidence (from Latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual information that verifies a conclusion |
| Antonyms: | contradict, disprove, refute |
| Main Entry: | exclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shout out |
| Synonyms: | assert, bellow, blurt, burst out, call, call aloud, call out, cry, cry out, declare, ejaculate, emit, figure, holler, proclaim, rend the air, roar, say loudly, shout, state, utter, vociferate, yawp, yell |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
| Main Entry: | exhibit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on view; present |
| Synonyms: | advertise, air, brandish, demonstrate, disclose, display, disport, evidence, evince, expose, express, feature, flash, flaunt, illustrate, indicate, let it all hang out, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, offer, ostend, parade, parade wares, proclaim, reveal, roll out, show, show and tell, show off, showcase, strut stuff, trot out, wave around |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide |
| Main Entry: | express |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | articulate; signify, mean |
| Synonyms: | add up to, air, assert, asseverate, bespeak, broach, circulate, communicate, connote, convey, couch, declare, denote, depict, designate, disclose, divulge, embody, enunciate, evince, exhibit, formulate, frame*, give, hint, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, intimate, make known, manifest, phrase, pop off, proclaim, pronounce, put, put across, put into words, represent, reveal, say, show, speak, spell, stand for, state, suggest, symbolize, tell, testify, utter, vent, ventilate, verbalize, voice, word |
| Main Entry: | flaunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make an exhibition, show off |
| Synonyms: | advertise, air, boast, brandish, break out, broadcast, declare, disclose, display, disport, divulge, expose, fan it, flash, flash about, flourish, gasconade, grandstand, hotdog, let it all hang out, make a scene, parade, proclaim, put on an act, reveal, roll out, show and tell, showcase, smack with, sport, spring on, streak, throw weight around, trot out, vaunt, wave around, whip out |
| Notes: | one flaunts (makes much of) something of one's own (wealth, good looks, education) while one flouts (disregards or violates) something outside oneself (convention, law, regulation); to flaunt is to show off and to flout is to treat with contempt or disregard with smugness |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, refrain |
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope out, dope*, figure, figure out*, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foreshadow, forewarn, make book, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, read, reveal, see something coming, signify, soothsay, tell |
| Main Entry: | herald |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring message |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, ballyhoo, broadcast, declare, forerun, foretoken, harbinger, indicate, pave the way, portend, precede, preindicate, presage, proclaim, promise, publicize, publish, show, tout, trumpet, usher in |