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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, book-learning, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendering, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | read |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express, state |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, assert, declaim, deliver, display, explain, expound, hold, indicate, mark, paraphrase, pronounce, recite, record, register, render, restate, say, show, speak, utter |
| Main Entry: | audition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | test of ability |
| Synonyms: | audience, demo, hearing, reading, trial, try on, tryout |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving, exchanging information, ideas |
| Synonyms: | advice, advisement, announcing, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, disclosing, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, link, making known, mention, notifying, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, translating, transmission, utterance, writing |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, quiet, suppression, withholding |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, construal, definition, exegesis, explication, exposition, exposé, inference, interpretation, reading, rendering, rendition, translation, version |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | elocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation |
| Synonyms: | declamation, delivery, diction, dramatic, eloquence, enunciation, expression, locution, oratory, pronunciation, public speaking, reading, rhetoric, speech, speechcraft, speechmaking, utterance, voice culture, voice production |
| Antonyms: | inarticulation, mispronouncement |
| Main Entry: | inference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, deduction |
| Synonyms: | assumption, conjecture, corollary, guess, hint, interpretation, presumption, reading, reasoning, supposition |
| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, reading, slant, translation |
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