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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, significant |
| Synonyms: | cogent, considerable, conspicuous, convincing, crucial, decisive, devastating, effectual, forceful, forcible, important, impressive, influential, marked, operative, potent, powerful, satisfactory, satisfying, solid, sound, striking, trenchant, valid, weighty |
| Antonyms: | ineffective, insignificant, secondary, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | tell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | narrate, describe |
| Synonyms: | chronicle, depict, express, give an account of, portray, recount, rehearse, relate, report, set forth, speak, state |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | listen |
| Main Entry: | tell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand, discern |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, be sure, clinch, comprehend, deduce, determine, differentiate, discover, discriminate, distinguish, divine, find out, identify, know, know for certain, learn, make out, perceive, recognize, see |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | tell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry weight |
| Synonyms: | count, have effect, have force, make presence felt, make presence known, militate, register, take effect, take its toll, weigh |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Main Entry: | tell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calculate |
| Synonyms: | compute, count, count one by one, enumerate, number, numerate, reckon, tale, tally |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | estimate, figure, guess |
| Main Entry: | betrayal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divulgence of information |
| Synonyms: | blurting out, diming, disclosure, giving away, ratting, revelation, snitching, spilling, squealing, tattling, telling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, secret |
| Main Entry: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most important, essential |
| Synonyms: | arch, capital, cardinal, central, champion, consequential, controlling, crucial, effective, especial, first, foremost, grand, head, highest, key, leading, main, major, momentous, number one, outstanding, paramount, potent, predominant, preeminent, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, ruling, significant, star, stellar, superior, supreme, telling, uppermost, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | inessential, minor, secondary, subordinate, unimportant, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | cogent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective |
| Synonyms: | apposite, apt, compelling, conclusive, consequential, convictive, convincing, fitting, forceful, forcible, inducing, influential, irresistible, justified, meaningful, momentous, persuasive, pertinent, potent, powerful, puissant, relevant, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, strong, suasive, telling, urgent, valid, weighty, well-grounded |
| Antonyms: | impotent, ineffective, invalid, weak |
| 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 |
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