Related Words for periphrasis

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periphrastic
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Adjective
infinitival
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Noun
participial
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Adjective
resultative
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Adjective
nominalization
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Noun
partitive
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Adjective
prepositional
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Adjective
aspectual
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Adjective
deictic
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Adjective
pronominal
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Adjective
attributive
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Noun
participles
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Noun
adjectival
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Adjective
anaphoric
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Adjective
metonymy
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Noun
clausal
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Adjective
sentential
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Adjective
clitic
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Noun
euphemism
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Noun
metaphor
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Noun
elegant
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Adjective
elaborate
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Adjective
verbal
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Adjective
uses
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Verb
god
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Name
mere
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Adjective
means
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Noun
avoid
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Verb
expressed
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Verb
kind
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Noun
much
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Adjective
form
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Noun
seems
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Verb
common
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Adjective
see
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Verb
affectation
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Noun
allegory
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Noun
artifice
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Noun, Verb
embellishments
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Noun
encomium
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Noun
flourishes
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Noun, Verb
indirection
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Noun
ornament
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Noun, Verb
panegyric
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Noun, Adjective
phraseology
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Noun
phrases
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Noun
preamble
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Noun, Verb
similes
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Verb
subterfuge
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Noun
chunk
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Noun, Verb
collocation
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Noun
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
cluster
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Noun, Verb
standard
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Adjective, Noun
dialect
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Noun
expression
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Noun
literally
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Adverb
sorta
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Adverb
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
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Verb, Noun
headlines
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Noun
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
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Adverb