assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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(verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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(noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
(noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
(noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
(noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
(noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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quag | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quagmire, slack |
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quagga | (noun) mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra; extinct since late 19th century | Synonyms: Equus quagga |
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quaggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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