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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, signification, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, tip-off, token, trace, warning, whiff, whisper, wink, word to wise, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | implication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | assumption, conclusion, connection, connotation, entanglement, guess, hint, hypothesis, incrimination, indication, inference, innuendo, intimation, involvement, link, meaning, overtone, presumption, ramification, reference, significance, signification, undertone, union |
| Main Entry: | impute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attribute |
| Synonyms: | accredit, accuse, adduce, ascribe, assign, blame, brand, censure, charge, credit, hang something on, hint, indict, insinuate, intimate, lay, pin on, refer, reference, stigmatize |
| Antonyms: | defend, guard, help, protect |
| Main Entry: | innuendo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suggestion |
| Synonyms: | allusion, aside, aspersion, hint, implication, imputation, insinuation, intimation, overtone, reference, whisper |
| Antonyms: | evidence, proof |
| Main Entry: | mention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | referral, observation |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, allusion, citation, comment, footnote, indication, naming, note, notice, notification, recognition, reference, remark, specifying, tribute, utterance |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | position |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical place |
| Synonyms: | area, bearings, district, environment, fix, geography, ground, locale, locality, location, locus, point, post, reference, region, scene, seat, setting, site, situation, space, spot, stand, station, surroundings, topography, tract, whereabouts |
| Main Entry: | quotation/quote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition of something spoken or written by someone |
| Synonyms: | citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection |
| Main Entry: | quote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat something spoken, written by another |
| Synonyms: | adduce, attest, cite, detail, excerpt, extract, instance, name, paraphrase, parrot, proclaim, recall, recite, recollect, refer to, reference, retell |
| Notes: | one should use quote exclusively as a verb and use quotation as a noun |
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