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Est. 1828
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Results for
'telling'
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Words to Describe telling

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Things telling often describes ("telling ________")

  • habit
  • booth
  • method
  • skill
  • animals
  • approach
  • process
  • faculty
  • tent
  • contest
  • impulse
  • practices
  • factor
  • practice
  • business
  • hour
  • medium
  • contests
  • function
  • book
  • manner
  • activity
  • hours
  • poems
  • poetry
  • cards
  • element
  • eyes
  • gift
  • aspect
  • circle
  • stories
  • traditions
  • situations
  • qualities
  • friend
  • conventions
  • competition
  • quality
  • books
  • feature
  • model
  • difference
  • activities
  • instinct
  • tradition
  • power
  • game
  • mode
  • technique
  • voice
  • age
  • games
  • seer
  • moment
  • style
  • test
  • purposes
  • ability
  • situation
  • spirit
  • scene
  • picture
  • capacity
  • question
  • preceptor
  • device
  • animal
  • session
  • englishman
  • mood
  • gipsy
  • art
  • servant
  • case
  • woman
  • task
  • ballads
  • events
  • literature
  • tribe
  • strategy
  • sessions
  • talent
  • point
  • machine
  • pictures
  • event
  • off

How telling often is described ("________ telling")

  • dramatic
  • comfortable
  • tale
  • vivid
  • saga
  • brave
  • simple
  • most
  • hard
  • pathetic
  • more
  • less
  • time
  • history
  • skilful
  • straightforward
  • mere
  • oral
  • honest
  • truth
  • legend
  • imaginative
  • worth
  • fortune
  • romantic
  • story
  • autobiographical
  • lively
  • plain

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  • shouted
  • account
  • mythopoeic
  • play
  • speculating
  • understand
  • crucifying
  • whining
  • meditative
  • apologizing
  • tellin
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