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111straightforward — adj 1. steady, steadfast, fixed, inflexible; undeviating, unveering, unswerving, unbending, unflinching; keen, intent, unbroken, undistracted; piercing, penetrating, probing, searching. 2. direct, straight, straightaway, linear, lineal,… …
112Intelligibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Intelligibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 intelligibility intelligibility Sgm: N 1 clearness clearness explicitness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 lucidity lucidity comprehensibility perspicuity Sgm: N 1 legibility legibi …
113candor — Synonyms and related words: accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, childlikeness, common speech, communicativeness, conversableness, cricket …
114directness — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, appropriateness, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear… …
115frankness — Synonyms and related words: accessibility, approachability, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, coarseness, common speech, communicativeness, conversableness,… …
116openness — Synonyms and related words: access, accessibility, admissibility, admission, amenableness, apparentness, approachability, artlessness, assimilation, austerity, availability, baldness, bareness, big mouth, bluffness, bluntness, broadness,… …
117plainness — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, apparentness, approachability, appropriateness, artlessness, atmospheric visibility, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness,… …
118simplicity — Synonyms and related words: Attic simplicity, Atticism, Bohemianism, abatement, abridgment, affability, agnosticism, agrarianism, alleviation, amentia, appropriateness, arrested development, artlessness, asceticism, attenuation, austereness,… …
119vernacular — Synonyms and related words: Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech,… …
120Speech error — A speech error is a speech pattern that differs from some standard pattern. Speech errors are common among children, who have yet to refine their speech, and can frequently continue into adulthood. They sometimes lead to embarrassment and… …
