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#520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness.-- N. equivocalness

• double meaning

• ambiguity

• double entente

• double

• pun

• quibble

• anagram

• conundrum

• play on words

• word play

• homonym

• homonymy[Gram]

• ambiloquy|

• Sphinx

• Delphic oracle

• equivocation

• white lie

• mental reservation

• (concealment) 5

• paltering

• V. be -equivocal

• have two meanings

• equivocate

• (alter) 544

• Adj. equivocal

• ambiguous

• double-tongued

• enigmatical

• indeterminate

• Phr. on the one hand

• on the other hand

#521. Metaphor.-- N. figure of speech

• way

• of speaking

• colloquialism

• phrase

• figure

• trope

• metaphor

• metonymy[Gram]

• synecdoche[Semant]

• autonomasia|!

• irony

• figurativeness

• image

• imagery

• type

• simile

• personification

• allegory

• parable

• fable

• allusion

• adumbration

• application

• exaggeration

• hyperbole

• association

• association of ideas (analogy) 514a

• V. employ -metaphor

• personify

• allegorize

• adumbrate

• shadow

• forth

• apply

• allude to

• Adj. metaphorical

• figurative

• typical

• parabolic

• allegorical

• allusive

• ironical

• colloquial

• tropical

• Adv. so to speak

• so to say

• so to express oneself

• as it were

• Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat][Horace]

#522. Interpretation. -- N. interpretation

• definition

• explanation

• explication

• solution

• answer

• rationale

• plain interpretation

• simple

• interpretation

• strict interpretation

• meaning

• translation

• rendering

• rendition

• literal

• translation

• free translation

• key

• secret

• clew

• crib

• pony

• trot [U.S.]

• exegesis

• expounding

• exposition

• hermeneutics

• comment

• commentary;

• inference

• illustration

• exemplification

• gloss

• annotation

• note

• elucidation

• dilucidation|;

• [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology[Med]

• semiology

• semiotics

• physiognomy

• paleography

• oneirology

• acceptation

• acceptance

• light

• reading

• lection

• construction

• version

• equivalent

• equivalent meaning

• synonym

• paraphrase

• convertible terms

• apposition

• dictionary

• polyglot

• V. interpret

• explain

• define

• construe

• translate

• render

• do into

• turn into

• transfuse the sense of

• find out

• read

• spell out

• make out;

• decipher

• unravel

• disentangle

• find the key of

• enucleate

• resolve

• solve;

• read between the lines

• account for

• find the cause

• tell the cause

• throw light upon

• shed light upon

• shed new light upon

• shed fresh light

• upon

• clear up

• clarify

• elucidate

• illustrate

• exemplify

• unfold

• expound

• comment upon

• annotate;

• popularize

• take in a particular sense

• understand in a particular sense

• receive

• in a particular sense

• accept in a particular sense

• understand by

• put a

• construction on

• be given to understand

• Adj. explanatory

• expository

• explicative

• explicatory;

• construable

• polyglot

• literal

• paraphrastic

• synonymous

• equivalent

• Adv. in explanation

• that is to say

• id est

• videlicet

• to wit

• namely

• in other words

• literally

• strictly speaking

• in plain

• in plainer terms

• in plainer

• words

• in plainer English

• more simply

#523. Misinterpretation. -- N. misinterpretation

• misapprehension

• misunderstanding

• misacceptation|

• misconstruction

• misapplication;

• cross-reading

• cross-purposes

• mistake

• misrepresentation

• perversion

• exaggeration

• false coloring

• false construction

• abuse of terms

• parody

• travesty

• falsification

• (lying) 544

• V. misinterpret

• misapprehend

• misunderstand

• misconceive

• misspell

• mistranslate

• misconstrue

• misapply

• mistake

• misrepresent

• pervert

• explain wrongly

• misstate

• garble

• 5

• distort

• detort|

• travesty

• play upon words

• stretch the sense

• strain

• the sense

• stretch the meaning

• strain the meaning

• wrest the sense

• wrest

• the meaning

• explain away

• put a bad construction on

• put a false

• construction on

• give a false coloring

• be at cross purposes

• play at cross purposes

• Adj. misinterpreted

• untranslated

• untranslatable

#524. Interpreter.-- N. interpreter

• expositor

• expounder

• exponent

• explainer

• demonstrator

• scholiast

• commentator

• annotator

• prolocutor

• spokesman

• speaker

• mouthpiece

• dragoman

• courier

• valet de place

• cicerone

• showman;

• (Edipus

• oracle

#525. Manifestation.-- N. {ant. 526} manifestation

• plainness

• plain speaking

• expression

• showing

• exposition

• demonstration

• exhibition

• production

• display

• show

• showing off;

• premonstration|. exhibit[Thing shown]

• indication

• disclosure

• openness

• (artlessness) 703;

• _panchement

• evidence

• V. make manifest

• render manifest

• bring forth

• bring

• forward

• bring to the front

• bring into view

• give notice

• express;

• represent

• set forth

• exhibit

• show

• show up

• expose

• produce

• hold up to

• view

• expose to view

• set before one

• place before one

• lay before one

• one's eyes

• tell to one's face

• trot out

• put through one's paces

• bring to

• light

• display

• demonstrate

• unroll

• lay open

• draw out

• bring out

• bring

• out in strong relief

• call into notice

• bring into notice

• hold up the

• mirror

• wear one's heart upon his sleeve

• show one's face

• show one's

• colors

• manifest oneself

• speak out

• make no mystery

• make no secret of;

• unfurl the flag

• proclaim

• indicate

• disclose

• elicit

• 480a

• be manifest

• appear

• transpire

• disclosed) 5

• speak for itself

• stand to reason

• stare one in the face

• rear its head

• give token

• give sign

• give indication of

• tell its own tale

• Adj. manifest

• apparent

• salient

• striking

• demonstrative

• prominent

• in the foreground

• notable

• pronounced

• flagrant

• notorious

• arrant

• stark staring

• unshaded

• glaring

• defined

• definite

• distinct

• conspicuous

• obvious

• evident

• unmistakable

• indubitable

• not to be mistaken

• palpable

• self-evident

• intelligible

• plain

• clear

• clear as day

• clear as daylight

• clear as noonday

• plain

• as a pike staff

• plain as the sun at noon-day

• plain as the nose on one's

• face

• plain as the way to parish church

• explicit

• overt

• patent

• express

• ostensible

• open

• open as day;

• naked

• bare

• literal

• downright

• undisguised

• exoteric

• unreserved

• frank

• plain-spoken

• candid (veracious)

• barefaced

• manifested

• disclosed

• capable of being shown

• producible

• unconcealable

• no secret

• Adv. manifestly

• openly

• before one's eyes

• under one's nose

• to one's face

• face to face

• above board

• cartes sur table

• on the stage

• in open court

• in the open streets

• in market overt

• in the face of day

• face of heaven

• in broad daylight

• in open daylight

• without reserve

• at

• first blush

• prima facie[Lat]

• on the face of

• in set terms

• he that runs may read

• you can see

• it with half an eye

• it needs no ghost to tell us [Hamlet]

• the meaning

• lies on the surface

• res ipsa loquitur[Lat];

• "clothing the palpable and familiar" [Coleridge]

• fari quae sentiat[Lat];

• volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It]

• "you don't need a weatherman to know

• which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan]

#526. Latency. Implication. -- N. {ant. 525} latency

• hidden meaning

• occult meaning

• occultness

• mystery

• silence

• concealment

• 5

• more than meets the eye

• more than meets the ear

• Delphic oracle

• le

• undercurrent

• implication

• logical implication

• logical consequence

• entailment

• allusion

• insinuation

• innuendo

• adumbration

• "something

• rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet]

• snake in the grass

• secret

• darkness

• invisibility

• imperceptibility

• V. be latent

• lurk

• smolder

• underlie

• make no sign

• escape

• observation

• escape detection

• escape recognition

• lie hid

• laugh in one's sleeve

• keep back

• involve

• imply

• understand

• allude to

• infer

• leave an inference;

• entail

• whisper

• [understand the implication] read between the lines

• Adj. latent

• lurking

• secret

• occult

• implied

• dormant

• abeyant

• unapparent

• unknown

• unseen

• in the background

• invisible

• 4

• dark

• impenetrable

• unsuspected

• unsaid

• unwritten

• unpublished

• untold

• unsung

• unexposed

• undisclosed

• unexpressed

• not expressed

• tacit

• undeveloped

• solved

• unexplained

• undiscovered

• 480a

• untracked

• unexplored

• indirect

• crooked

• inferential

• by inference

• by implication;

• implicit

• constructive

• allusive

• covert

• muffled

• understood

• underhand

• underground

• concealed

• Adv. by a side wind

• sub silentio[Lat]

• in the background

• behind the

• scenes

• behind one's back

• on the tip of one's tongue

• secretly

• between the lines

• Phr. "thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]

• tacitum vivit sub

• pectore vulnus [Lat][Vergil]

• where there's smoke

• there's fire

#527. Information.-- N. information

• enlightenment

• acquaintance

• knowledge

• publicity

• data

• communication

• intimation

• notice

• notification

• enunciation

• annunciation

• announcement

• communiqu_

• representation

• round robin

• presentment

• case

• estimate

• specification

• report

• advice

• monition

• news

• return

• account

• statement

• (affirmation) 535

• mention

• acquainting

• instruction

• outpouring

• intercommunication

• communicativeness

• informant

• authority

• teller

• reporter

• exponent

• mouthpiece;

• informer

• eavesdropper

• delator

• detective

• sleuth

• spy

• newsmonger

• messenger

• amicus curiae[Lat]

• valet de place

• cicerone

• pilot

• guide

• guidebook

• handbook

• vade

• mecum[Latin]

• manual

• map

• plan

• chart

• gazetteer

• itinerary

• 266

• hint

• suggestion

• innuendo

• inkling

• whisper

• passing word

• word in

• the ear

• cue

• byplay

• gesture

• gentle hint

• broad hint

• verbum sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise];

• insinuation

• information theory

• [units of information] bit

• byte

• word

• doubleword[Comp]

• quad word

• paragraph

• segment

• [information storage media] magnetic media

• paper medium

• optical

• media

• random access memory

• RAM

• read-only memory

• ROM

• write once read

• mostly memory

• WORM

• V. tell

• inform

• inform of

• acquaint

• acquaint with

• impart

• impart

• to

• make acquaintance with

• apprise

• advise

• enlighten

• awaken

• transmit

• let fall

• mention

• express

• intimate

• represent

• communicate

• make

• known

• publish

• notify

• signify

• specify

• convey the knowledge of

• let one know

• have one to know

• give one to understand

• give notice;

• set before

• lay before

• put before

• point out

• put into one's head

• put one

• in possession of

• instruct

• direct the attention to

• 457

• announce

• annunciate

• report

• report progress

• send

• word

• leave word

• write word

• telegraph

• telephone

• wire

• retail

• render an

• account

• give an account

• state

• [disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip

• blurt out

• spill the

• beans

• unburden oneself of

• let off one's chest

• disclose

• show cause

• explain

• hint

• given an inkling of

• give a hint

• drop a hint

• throw out a hint;

• insinuate

• allude to

• make allusion to

• glance at

• tip the wink

• (indicate) 550

• suggest

• prompt

• give the cue

• breathe

• whisper

• whisper in

• the ear

• give a bit of one's mind

• tell one plainly

• tell once for all

• speak

• volumes

• set right

• correct

• open the eyes

• of

• disabuse

• disillusion one of

• be informed of

• know

• learn

• get scent of

• get wind

• of

• gather from

• awaken to

• open one's eyes to

• become alive

• become awake

• to

• hear

• overhear

• understand

• come to one's ears

• come to one's knowledge

• reach one's ears

• Adj. informed

• communique

• reported

• published

• expressive

• explicit

• (clear) 5

• plain spoken

• (artless) 703

• nuncupative

• nuncupatory|

• declaratory

• expository

• communicative

• Adv. from information received

• Phr. a little bird told me

• I heard it through the grapevine

#527a. Correction. [Correct an error of information

• distinguish from

• correcting a flaw or misbehavior] -- N. correction

• disillusionment

• V. correct

• set right

• set straight

• put straight

• enlighten

• show one one's error

• point out an error

• point out a fallacy

• pick

• out an error

• pick out the fallacy

• open one's eyes

• pick apart an argument

• confutation

• reasoning

• Adj. corrective

• Phr. I stand corrected

#528. Concealment.-- N. concealment

• hiding

• occultation

• mystification

• seal of secrecy

• screen

• disguise

• masquerade

• masked

• battery

• hiding place

• cryptography

• freemasonry

• stealth

• stealthiness

• sneakiness

• obreption|

• slyness

• 702

• seclusion

• privacy

• secrecy

• incognita

• reticence

• reserve

• mental reserve

• reservation

• suppression

• evasion

• white lie

• misprision

• silence

• suppression of truth

• underhand dealing

• closeness

• secretiveness

• mystery

• latency

• snake in the grass

• secret

• stowaway

• V. conceal

• hide

• secrete

• put out of sight

• lock up

• seal up

• bottle

• up

• encrypt

• encode

• cipher

• cover

• screen

• cloak

• veil

• shroud

• cover up one's tracks

• screen from

• sight

• screen from observation

• drawing the veil

• draw the curtain

• close

• the curtain

• curtain

• shade

• eclipse

• throw a view over

• becloud

• bemask;

• mask

• disguise

• ensconce

• muffle

• smother

• befog

• whisper

• keep from

• keep back

• keep to oneself

• keep snug

• keep close

• keep

• secret

• keep dark

• bury

• sink

• suppress

• keep from

• keep from out of view

• keep from out of sight

• keep in the shade

• throw into the shade

• throw into

• background

• stifle

• hush up

• smother

• withhold

• reserve

• fence with a

• question

• ignore

• keep a secret

• keep one's own counsel

• hold one's tongue

• 5

• make no sign

• not let it go further

• not breathe a word

• not breathe a

• syllable about

• not let the right hand know what the left is doing

• hide

• one's light under a bushel

• bury one's talent in a napkin

• keep in the dark

• leave in the dark

• keep in the ignorance

• blind

• blind the eyes

• blindfold

• hoodwink

• mystify

• puzzle

• bamboozle

• be concealed

• suffer an eclipse

• retire from sight

• couch

• hide

• oneself

• lie hid

• lie in close

• lie in ambush (ambush)

• 530

• seclude oneself

• lurk

• sneak

• skulk

• slink

• prowl

• steal into

• steal out of

• steal by

• steal along

• play at hide and

• seek

• hide in holes and corners

• still hunt

• Adj. concealed

• hidden

• secret

• recondite

• mystic

• cabalistic

• occult

• dark

• cryptic

• private

• privy

• in petto

• auricular

• clandestine

• close

• inviolate

• tortuous

• behind a screen

• undercover

• under an eclipse

• in ambush

• in

• hiding

• in disguise

• in a cloud

• in a fog

• in a mist

• in a haze

• in a dark

• corner

• in the shade

• in the dark

• clouded

• wrapped in clouds

• wrapt in

• invisible

• buried

• underground

• secluded

• undisclosed

• untold

• covert

• untraceable

• mysterious

• inviolable

• confidential

• esoteric

• not to be

• spoken of

• unmentionable

• furtive

• stealthy

• feline

• skulking

• surreptitious

• underhand

• hole and corner

• sly

• secretive

• evasive

• reserved

• reticent

• uncommunicative

• buttoned up;

• close

• close as wax

• taciturn

• Adv. secretly

• in secret

• in private

• in one's sleeve

• in

• holes and corners

• in the dark

• januis clausis[Lat]

• with closed doors

• hugger

• mugger

• under the cloak of

• under the rose

• under the

• table

• sub rosa[Lat]

• in the background

• aside

• on the

• sly

• with bated breath

• sotto voce[Lat]

• in a whisper

• without beat of

• drum

• behind the veil

• beyond mortal ken

• beyond the grave

• beyond the veil;

• hid from mortal vision

• into the eternal secret

• into the realms

• into the supreme mystery

• in confidence

• in strict confidence

• in strictest confidence;

• confidentially

• between ourselves

• between you and me

• between you

• and me and the bedpost

• inter nos

• under the seal of

• secrecy

• underhand

• by stealth

• like a thief in the night

• stealthily

• behind the scenes

• behind the curtain

• behind one's back

• behind a screen

• incognito

• in camera

• Phr. it must go no further

• it will go no further

• don't tell a

• soul;"tell it not in Gath,"nobody the wiser

• alitur vitium vivitque

• "let it be tenable in your silence still"[Hamlet]

• [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information

• deep background information

• deep background

• background session

• backgrounder

• not for attribution

#529. Disclosure -- N. disclosure

• retection|

• unveiling

• revealment

• revelation

• exposition

• exposure

• expose;

• whole truth

• telltale

• acknowledgment

• avowal

• confession

• confessional

• shrift

• bursting of a bubble

• denouement

• [person who discloses a secret] tattletale

• snitch

• fink

• stool

• pigeon

• canary

• V. disclose

• discover

• dismask|

• draw the veil

• draw aside the veil

• lift the veil

• raise the veil

• lift up the veil

• remove the veil

• tear

• aside the veil

• tear the curtain

• unmask

• unveil

• unfold

• uncover

• unseal

• unkennel

• take off the seal

• break the seal

• lay open

• lay bare

• expose;

• open

• open up

• bare

• bring to light

• divulge

• reveal

• break

• squeal

• tattle

• sing

• rat

• snitch [all coll.];

• let into the secret

• reveal the secrets of the prison house

• tell

• (inform) 5

• breathe

• utter

• blab

• peach

• let out

• let fall

• let drop

• let slip

• spill the beans

• let the cat out of the bag

• betray

• tell tales

• come out of school

• come out with

• give vent

• give utterance to

• open the

• lips

• blurt out

• vent

• whisper about

• speak out

• make public

• unriddle

• split

• acknowledge

• allow

• concede

• grant

• admit

• own

• own up to

• confess

• avow

• throw off all disguise

• turn inside out

• make a clean breast

• show

• one's hand

• show one's cards

• unburden one's mind

• disburden one's mind

• disburden one's conscience

• disburden one's heart

• open one's mind

• lay

• bare one's mind

• unbosom oneself

• own to

• the soft impeachment

• say the truth

• speak the truth

• turn King's (or

• Queen's) evidence

• acknowledge the corn* [U.S.]

• raise the mask

• drop the mask

• lift the mask

• remove the mask

• throw

• off the mask

• expose

• lay open

• disabuse

• set right

• correct

• open the eyes of

• d_sillusionner

• be disclosed

• transpire

• come to light

• come in sight

• visible) 4

• become known

• escape the lips

• come out

• ooze out

• creep out

• leak out

• peep out

• crop-out

• show its face

• show its colors

• discover

• itself

• break through the clouds

• flash on the mind

• Adj. disclosed

• open

• public

• Int.out with it!

• Phr. the murder is out

• a light breaks in upon one

• the scales fall

• from one's eyes

• the eyes are opened

#530. Ambush [Means of concealment]. -- N. camouflage

• mimicry

• hiding

• place

• secret place

• secret drawer

• recess

• hold

• holes and corners;

• closet

• crypt

• oubliette

• ambush

• ambuscade

• stalking horse

• lurking hole

• lurking place

• secret

• path

• back stairs

• retreat

• screen

• cover

• shade

• blinker

• veil

• curtain

• blind

• cloak

• cloud

• mask

• visor

• disguise

• masquerade dress

• domino

• pitfall

• trap

• V. blend in

• blend into the background

• lie in ambush

• lie in wait for

• lurk

• set a trap

• for

• ambuscade

• ambush

• [transitive] camouflage

• Adj. camouflaged

• hidden

• concealed

#531. Publication.-- N. publication

• public announcement

• promulgation

• propagation

• proclamation

• pronunziamento [Italian];

• circulation

• edition

• hue and cry

• publicity

• notoriety

• currency

• flagrancy

• cry

• bruit

• hype

• vox

• populi

• report

• the Press

• public press

• newspaper

• journal

• gazette

• daily;

• telegraphy

• publisher

• imprint

• circular

• circular letter

• manifesto

• advertisement

• ad

• placard

• bill

• broadside

• poster

• notice

• V. publish

• make public

• make known

• speak of

• talk of

• broach

• utter

• put forward

• circulate

• propagate

• promulgate;

• spread

• spread abroad

• rumor

• diffuse

• disseminate

• evulugate

• put forth

• give forth

• send forth

• emit

• edit

• get out

• issue

• bring before the

• public

• lay before the public

• drag before the public

• give out

• give to

• the world

• put about

• bandy about

• hawk about

• buzz about

• whisper about

• bruit about

• blaze about

• drag into the open day

• voice

• proclaim

• herald

• blazon

• blaze abroad

• noise abroad

• sound a trumpet;

• trumpet forth

• thunder forth

• give tongue

• announce with beat of drum

• announce with flourish of trumpets

• proclaim from the housetops

• proclaim

• at Charing Cross

• advertise

• placard

• post

• publish in the

• Gazette

• send round the crier

• raise a cry

• raise a hue and cry

• raise a report

• set news afloat

• be published

• be public

• become public

• come out

• go about

• fly about

• buzz about

• blow about

• get about

• get abroad

• get afloat

• get

• wind

• find vent

• see the light

• go forth

• take air

• acquire currency

• pass

• current

• go the rounds

• go the round of the newspapers

• go through the

• length and breadth of the land

• virum volitare per ora[Lat]

• pass from

• mouth to mouth

• spread

• run like wildfire

• spread like wildfire

• Adj. published

• current

• in circulation

• public;

• notorious

• flagrant

• arrant

• open

• trumpet-tongued

• encyclical

• exoteric

• Adv. publicly

• in open court

• with open doors

• Int. Oyez! O yes! notice!

• Phr. notice is hereby given

• this is to give

• these are to give

• notice

• nomina stultorum parietibus haerent[Lat]

• semel emissum volat

• irrevocabile verbum[Lat].

#532. News.-- N. news

• information

• budget

• of news

• budget of information

• intelligence

• tidings

• word

• advice

• aviso[Sp]

• message

• dispatch

• despatch

• telegram

• cable

• wire

• communication

• errand

• embassy

• report

• rumor

• hearsay

• flying rumor

• news stirring

• cry

• buzz

• bruit

• fame

• talk

• scandal

• eavesdropping

• town tattle

• table talk

• tittle tattle

• canard

• topic of the day

• idea afloat

• bulletin

• fresh news

• stirring news

• glad tidings

• flash

• news just

• in

• on-the-spot coverage

• live coverage

• old story

• old news

• stale news

• stale story

• chestnut*

• narrator

• newsmonger

• scandalmonger

• talebearer

• telltale

• gossip

• tattler

• [study of news reporting] journalism

• [methods of conveying news] media

• news media

• the press

• the

• information industry

• newspaper

• magazine

• tract

• journal

• gazette

• publication

• radio

• television

• ticker (electronic information

• transmission)

• [organizations producing news reports] United Press International

• UPI

• Associated Press

• AP

• The Dow Jones News Service

• DJ

• The New York

• Times News Service

• NYT[abbr]

• Reuters [England]

• TASS [Soviet Union]

• The

• Nikkei [Japan]

• [person reporting news as a profession] newscaster

• newsman

• newswoman

• reporter

• journalist

• correspondent

• foreign correspondent

• special correspondent

• war correspondent

• news team

• news department;

• anchorman

• sportscaster

• weatherman

• [officials providing news for an organization] press secretary

• public

• relations department

• public relations man

• V. transpire

• rumor

• Adj. many-tongued

• rumored

• publicly rumored

• currently rumored

• currently reported

• rife

• current

• floating

• afloat

• going about

• in

• circulation

• in every one's mouth

• all over the town

• in progress

• live

• on the spot

• in person

• Adv. as the story goes

• as the story runs

• as they say

• it is said

• by

• telegraph

• by wireless

• Phr. "airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton]

• what's up?;

• what's the latest?

• what's new?

• what's the latest poop?

#533. Secret.-- N. secret

• dead secret

• profound secret;

• mystery

• latency

• sealed book

• secrets of the prison house

• enigma

• riddle

• puzzle

• nut to crack

• conundrum

• charade

• rebus

• monogram

• anagram

• Sphinx

• crux criticorum[Lat]

• maze

• labyrinth

• Hyrcynian wood

• intricacy

• meander

• problem

• paradox

• unintelligibility

• terra incognita

• Adj. secret

• involved

• 2

• labyrinthine

• mazy

• confidential

• top secret

#534. Messenger.-- N. messenger

• envoy

• emissary

• legate

• nuncio

• ambassador

• marshal

• flag bearer

• herald

• crier

• trumpeter

• courier

• runner

• Mercury

• Iris

• errand boy

• chore boy

• newsboy

• mail

• overnight mail

• express mail

• next-day delivery

• post

• post

• office

• letter bag

• delivery service

• United Parcel Service

• UPS

• Federal

• Express

• Fedex

• telegraph

• telephone

• cable

• wire (electronic information

• transmission)

• carrier pigeon

• [person reporting news: see news

• gentleman of the

• press

• representative of the press

• penny-a-liner

• special correspondent

• own correspondent

• spy

• scout

• informer

#535. Affirmation.-- N. affirmance

• affirmation

• statement

• allegation

• assertion

• predication

• declaration

• word

• averment;

• confirmation

• asseveration

• adjuration

• swearing

• oath

• affidavit

• deposition

• (record) 5

• avouchment

• assurance

• protest

• protestation

• profession;

• acknowledgment

• legal pledge

• pronouncement

• solemn

• averment

• solemn avowal

• solemn declaration

• remark

• observation

• position

• saying

• dictum

• sentence

• ipse dixit[Lat]

• emphasis

• weight

• dogmatism

• dogmatics

• V. assert

• make an assertion

• have one's say

• say

• affirm

• predicate

• declare

• state

• protest

• profess

• put forth

• put forward

• advance

• allege

• propose

• propound

• enunciate

• broach

• set forth

• hold out

• maintain

• contend

• pronounce

• pretend

• depose

• depone

• aver

• avow

• avouch

• asseverate

• swear

• make oath

• take

• one's oath

• make an affidavit

• swear an affidavit

• put in an affidavit;

• take one's Bible oath

• kiss the book

• vow

• vitam impendere vero[Lat]

• swear

• till one is black in the face

• swear till one is blue in the face

• swear

• till all's blue

• be sworn

• call Heaven to witness

• vouch

• warrant

• certify

• assure

• swear by bell book and candle

• swear by

• insist upon

• take one's stand upon;

• emphasize

• lay stress on

• assert roundly

• assert positively

• lay down

• lay

• down the law

• raise one's voice

• dogmatize

• have the last word

• rap out;

• repeat

• reassert

• reaffirm

• announce

• acknowledge

• attest

• (evidence) 46

• adjure

• Adj. asserting

• declaratory

• affirmative

• positive

• certain

• express

• explicit

• absolute

• emphatic

• flat

• broad

• round

• pointed

• marked

• distinct

• decided

• confident

• trenchant

• dogmatic

• definitive

• formal

• solemn

• categorical

• peremptory

• predicable

• Adv. affirmatively

• in the affirmative

• with emphasis

• ex-cathedra

• without fear of contradiction

• as God is my witness

• I must say

• indeed

• i' faith

• let me tell you

• why

• give me leave to say

• marry

• you may be sure

• I'd have you to know;

• upon my word

• upon my honor

• by my troth

• egad

• I assure you

• by jingo

• by

• Jove

• by George

• troth

• seriously

• sadly

• in sadness

• in sober

• sadness

• in truth

• in earnest

• of a truth

• truly

• in all

• conscience

• upon oath

• be assured

• yes

• I'll warrant

• I'll warrant you

• I'll engage

• I'll answer for it

• I'll be

• bound

• I'll venture to say

• I'll take my oath

• in fact

• forsooth

• joking

• apart

• so help me God

• not to mince the matter

• Phr. quoth he

• dixi[Lat]

#536. Negation. -- N. negation

• abnegation

• denial

• disavowal

• disclaimer

• abjuration

• contradiction

• contravention;

• protest

• recusancy

• flat

• contradiction

• emphatic contradiction

• emphatic denial

• dementi[Lat]

• qualification

• repudiation

• retraction

• confutation

• refusal

• prohibition

• V. deny

• contradict

• contravene

• controvert

• give denial to

• gainsay

• negative

• shake the head

• disown

• disaffirm

• disclaim

• disavow

• recant

• revoke

• (abrogate) 756

• dispute

• impugn

• traverse

• rebut

• join issue upon

• bring in question

• call in question

• give (one) the lie in his throat

• deny flatly

• deny peremptorily

• deny emphatically

• deny absolutely

• deny wholly

• deny entirely

• give the lie to

• belie

• repudiate

• set aside

• ignore

• rebut

• qualify

• refuse

• recuse[Law]

• Adj. denying

• denied

• contradictory

• negative

• negatory;

• recusant

• at issue upon

• Adv. no

• nay

• not

• nowise

• not a bit

• not a whit

• not a jot

• not at

• all

• nohow

• not in the least

• not so

• negative

• negatory

• no way [coll.];

• no such thing

• nothing of the kind

• nothing of the sort

• quite the

• contrary

• far from it

• on no

• account

• in no respect

• by no

• by no manner of means

• negatively

• [negative with respect to time] never

• never in a million years

• at no

• time

• Phr. there never was a greater mistake

• I know better

• non haec in

• faedera[Lat]

• a thousand times no

#537. Teaching.-- N. teaching

• instruction

• edification;

• education

• tuition

• tutorage

• tutelage

• direction

• guidance;

• qualification

• preparation

• training

• schooling

• discipline;

• excitation

• drill

• practice

• book exercise

• persuasion

• proselytism

• propaganda;

• indoctrination

• inculcation

• inoculation

• advise

• explanation

• lesson

• lecture

• sermon;

• parable

• discourse

• preachment

• chalk

• talk

• Chautauqua [U.S.]

• exercise

• task

• curriculum

• course

• course of study

• grammar

• three

• R's

• initiation

• A.B.C.

• elementary education

• primary education

• secondary education

• technical education

• college education

• collegiate education

• military

• education

• university education

• liberal education

• classical education

• religious education

• denominational education

• moral education

• secular

• education

• moral tuition

• gymnastics

• calisthenics

• physical drill

• physical education;

• [methods of teaching] phonics

• rote

• rote memorization

• brute memory;

• cooperative learning

• Montessori method

• ungraded classes

• [measuring degree of learning of pupils] test

• examination

• exam;

• final exam

• mid-term exam grade[result of measurement of learning]

• score

• marks

• A,B,C,D,E,F

• gentleman's C

• pass

• fail

• incomplete

• homework

• take-home lesson

• exercise for the student

• theme

• project

• V. teach

• instruct

• educate

• edify

• school

• tutor

• cram

• prime

• coach;

• enlighten

• inculcate

• indoctrinate

• inoculate

• infuse

• instill

• infix

• infiltrate

• imbue

• impregnate

• implant

• graft

• sow the seeds

• of

• disseminate

• given an idea of

• put up to

• put in the way of

• set right

• sharpen the wits

• enlarge the mind

• give new ideas

• open the eyes

• bring forward

• "teach the young idea how to shoot" [Thomson]

• improve

• 658

• expound

• lecture

• read a lesson

• give a lesson

• give a lecture

• give a sermon

• give a discourse

• hold forth

• preach

• sermonize

• moralize

• point a moral

• train

• discipline

• bring up

• bring up to

• form

• ground

• prepare

• qualify

• drill

• exercise

• practice

• habituate

• familiarize with

• nurture

• breed

• rear

• take in hand

• break

• break in

• tame;

• initiate

• inure

• put to nurse

• send to school

• direct

• guide

• direct attention to

• impress upon

• the mind

• impress upon the memory

• beat into

• beat into the head

• convince

• [instructional materials] book

• workbook

• exercise book

• [unnecessary teaching] preach to the wise

• teach one's grandmother to

• suck eggs

• teach granny to suck eggs

• preach to the converted

• Adj. teaching

• taught

• educational

• scholastic

• academic

• doctrinal

• instructive

• instructional

• didactic;

• Phr. the schoolmaster abroad

• a bovi majori disscit arare minor[Lat];

• adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Lat][Vergil]

• docendo discimus[Lat];

• quaenocent docent[Lat]

• qui docet discit[Latin]

• "sermons in stones and

• good in everything" [As You Like It]

• misinformaton

• misguidance

• misdirection

• misleading

• perversion

• false teaching;

• sophistry

• college of Laputa

• the blind leading the blind

• [misteaching by government agents] propaganda

• disinformation

• agitprop

• indoctrination

• V. misinform

• misdirect

• misguide

• pervert

• put on a false scent

• throw

• off the scent

• throw off the trail

• deceive

• mislead

• misrepresent

• lie

• ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat][Vergil]

• propagandize

• disinform

• render unintelligible

• bewilder

• mystify

• unteach

• [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist

• Adj. misteaching

• unedifying

• Phr. piscem natare doces [Lat]

• the blind leading the blind

#539. Learning -- N. learning

• acquisition of knowledge

• acquisition of skill

• acquirement

• attainment

• edification

• scholarship

• erudition

• acquired knowledge

• lore

• wide information

• self-

• instruction

• study

• reading

• perusal

• inquiry

• apprenticeship

• pupilage

• tutelage

• novitiate

• matriculation

• docility

• aptitude

• V. learn

• acquire knowledge

• gain knowledge

• receive knowledge

• take

• in knowledge

• drink in knowledge

• imbibe knowledge

• pick up knowledge

• gather knowledge

• get knowledge

• obtain knowledge

• collect knowledge

• glean

• knowledge

• glean information

• glean learning

• acquaint oneself with

• master

• make oneself master of

• make oneself

• acquainted with

• grind

• cram

• get up

• coach up

• learn by heart

• learn by

• rote

• read

• spell

• peruse

• con over

• pore over

• thumb over

• wade through;

• dip into

• run the eye over

• run the eye through

• turn over the leaves

• study

• be studious

• [study intensely] burn the midnight oil

• consume the midnight oil

• mind one's book

• cram

• go to school

• go to college

• go to the university

• matriculate

• serve

• an (or one's) apprenticeship

• serve one's time

• learn one's trade

• be

• informed

• be taught

• [stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out

• leave

• school

• quit school

• graduate

• transfer

• take a leave

• [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss

• expel

• kick out

• of school

• [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out

• be dismissed

• Adj. studious

• scholastic

• scholarly

• teachable

• docile

• 60

• apt

• industrious

• Adv. at one's books

• in statu pupillari

• Phr. "a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]

• ancora

• "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay]