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locution
noun
(lo-cu-tion)
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
Synonyms:
expression
,
saying
,
Words Related to
locution
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expression
,
saying
,
idiom
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
neologism
,
prepositional phrase
,
utterance
,
declarative sentence
,
mot juste
,
adjective
,
split infinitive
,
monosyllable
,
journalese
,
malapropism
,
circumlocutions
,
epigram
,
simile
,
archaisms
,
coinages
,
panegyric
,
aphorism
,
abstract noun
,
antonym
,
etymologies
,
tautologies
,
participle
,
birdbrain
,
past participle
,
pronoun
,
chiasmus
,
ungrammatically
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misquotation
,
buncombe
,
incuriosity
,
intransitive verb
,
prolixity
,
misunderestimate
,
truthy
,
sophistries
,
epithet
,
gerund
,
metonymy
,
subjunctive
,
trope
,
ironist
,
verb
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genitive
,
idiomatic expression
,
subjunctive mood
,
sayer
,
dissembler
,
diphthong
,
noun
,
pronounciation
,
hegelian dialectic
,
sophist
,
excursus
,
peroration
,
syllogism
,
speciousness
,
descriptive adjective
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grammarian
,
rhetorician
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insubstantiality
,
colloquialism
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platitude
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imprecation
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synonym
,
misplaced modifier
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bureaucratese
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cognomen
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peccadillo
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jackanapes
,
homophones
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taciturnity
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flatterer
,
transitive verb
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jabberwocky
,
sophism
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darky
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asperity
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inoffensiveness
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controversialist
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churl
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non sequitur
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negritude
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loquacity
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paraphrase
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declension
,
nabokovian
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moralist
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weltanschauung
,
delphic
,
attitudinizing
,
scrivener
,
solecism
,
pedantry
,
dunderhead
,
explications
,
locution
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