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Noun
S:
(n)
disagreement
,
dissension
,
dissonance
(a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters)
S:
(n)
discrepancy
,
disagreement
,
divergence
,
variance
(a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions)
"a growing divergence of opinion"
direct hyponym
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full hyponym
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
derivationally related form
S:
(n)
disagreement
(the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)
direct hyponym
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full hyponym
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
S:
(n)
speech act
(the use of language to perform some act)
S:
(n)
congratulation
,
felicitation
(the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration)
S:
(n)
slander
(words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another)
S:
(n)
proposal
,
proposition
(the act of making a proposal)
"they listened to her proposal"
S:
(n)
command
,
bid
,
bidding
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dictation
(an authoritative direction or instruction to do something)
S:
(n)
agreement
(the verbal act of agreeing)
S:
(n)
citation
((law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.))
S:
(n)
disagreement
(the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)
S:
(n)
offer
,
offering
(the verbal act of offering)
"a generous offer of assistance"
S:
(n)
request
,
asking
(the verbal act of requesting)
S:
(n)
reply
,
response
(the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange)
"he growled his reply"
S:
(n)
description
(the act of describing something)
S:
(n)
affirmation
,
assertion
,
statement
(the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)
S:
(n)
denial
(the act of refusing to comply (as with a request))
"it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges"
S:
(n)
rejection
(the speech act of rejecting)
S:
(n)
objection
(the speech act of objecting)
S:
(n)
informing
,
making known
(a speech act that conveys information)
S:
(n)
disclosure
,
revelation
,
revealing
(the speech act of making something evident)
S:
(n)
promise
(a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future)
S:
(n)
boast
,
boasting
,
self-praise
,
jactitation
(speaking of yourself in superlatives)
S:
(n)
naming
(the verbal act of naming)
"the part he failed was the naming of state capitals"
S:
(n)
challenge
(a call to engage in a contest or fight)
S:
(n)
explanation
(the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible)
"I heard his explanation of the accident"
S:
(n)
denunciation
,
denouncement
(a public act of denouncing)
S:
(n)
address
,
speech
(the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)
"he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
S:
(n)
resignation
(the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))
antonym
derivationally related form