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Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations

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S: (adj) sensitive, sore, raw, tender (hurting) "the tender spot on his jaw"
S: (adj) afflictive, painful, sore (causing misery or pain or distress) "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

S: (adj) huffy, mad, sore (roused to anger) "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

S: (n) colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

S: (n) formulation, expression (the style of expressing yourself) "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"

S: (n) sentimentalism (the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form)
S: (n) honorific (an expression of respect) "the Japanese use many honorifics"
S: (n) archaism, archaicism (the use of an archaic expression)
S: (n) boilerplate (standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories)
S: (n) colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
S: (n) parlance, idiom (a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language)
S: (n) Americanism (an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans)
S: (n) Anglicism, Briticism, Britishism (an expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English))
S: (n) wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage (the manner in which something is expressed in words) "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

S: (adj) angry (feeling or showing anger) "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"