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  • 21idiom — Synonyms and related words: Acadian, Anglo Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, adjectival phrase, argot, bundle of… …

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  • 22locution — Synonyms and related words: adjectival phrase, antonym, articulation, choice of words, clause, composition, construction, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, free form, grammar, headed group, homograph, homonym, homophone, idiom, idiotism …

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  • 23period — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, Archean, Archeozoic, Cambrian, Carboniferous, Cenozoic, Comanchean, Cretaceous, Devonian, Eocene, Glacial, Holocene, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Tertiary, Mesozoic, Miocene, Mississippian, Oligocene, Paleocene …

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  • 24term — Synonyms and related words: Z, abundant year, academic year, adjectival phrase, administration, agree, annum, antonym, apodosis, appellation, arrange, articles, articulation, as regards, assumptions, balance, baptize, basis, bissextile year,… …

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  • 25usage — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, acceptation, acception, active use, adjectival phrase, antonym, appliance, application, articulation, automatism, bad habit, bon ton, care, ceremony, characteristic, choice, choice of words, clause,… …

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  • 26utterance — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, address, adjectival phrase, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, answer, antonym, apostrophe, articulation, assertion, asseveration, attack, averment, avouchment, avowal,… …

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  • 27Hebraism — He bra*ism, n. [Cf. F. h[ e]bra[ i]sme.] [1913 Webster] 1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. The type of character of the Hebrews. [1913 Webster] The governing …

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  • 28Laughter — Laugh ter, n. [AS. hleahtor; akin to OHG. hlahtar, G. gel[ a]chter, Icel. hl[=a]tr, Dan. latter. See {Laugh}, v. i. ] A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes,… …

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  • 29Shub-Niggurath — Artistic portrayal of Shub Niggurath, along with her Thousand Young . For the French zeuhl band named after it, see Shub Niggurath (band). Shub Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, is a… …

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  • 30laughter — noun /ˈlɑːftə,ˈlæftɚ/ a) The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. Their loud laughter betrayed their presence b) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, with a… …

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