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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revelation |
| Synonyms: | announcement, articulation, assertion, asseveration, declaration, delivery, discourse, ejaculation, expression, opinion, oration, peroration, pronouncement, rant, recitation, remark, reply, response, saying, sentence, speaking, speech, spiel, statement, talk, vent, verbalization, vocalization, vociferation, voice, word, words |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| 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: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance of information |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assenting, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosing, disclosure, divulgence, enumeration, exposure, exposé, making public, narration, owning up, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revealing, revelation, song*, squawk, squeal, statement, story, telling, unbosoming, utterance |
| Notes: | admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, denial, disavowal, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | declaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assertion of belief or knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, affirmation, allegation, announcement, answer, attestation, averment, avowal, bomb*, broadcast, communication, deposition, disclosure, enunciation, explanation, exposition, expression, hot air, information, notice, notification, oath, pitch, presentation, profession, promulgation, protestation, publication, remark, report, revelation, say so, saying, spiel*, statement, story, testimony, two cents' worth, utterance |
| Antonyms: | denial, disavowal, retraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation of message |
| Synonyms: | accent, diction, elocution, emphasis, enunciation, inflection, intonation, modulation, pronunciation, speech, utterance |
| Antonyms: | quiet, secrecy |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
| Synonyms: | address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, gabfest, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, tractate, treatise, utterance, verbalization |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| 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: | emission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issuance, diffusion |
| Synonyms: | discharge, ejaculation, ejection, emanation, exhalation, exudation, issue, radiation, shedding, transmission, utterance, venting |
| Antonyms: | concealment, containment, refrain, repression, suppression, withholding |
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