| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocritical statement |
Synonyms: |
affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
argot, dialect, diction, idiom, language, lingo, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, vernacular, vocabulary |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean, slant |
Synonyms: |
angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip |
| Main Entry: | argot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
cant, dialect, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, slang, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean or tilt |
Synonyms: |
bend, camber, cant, incline, pitch, slant, slope |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diagonal weave of fabric |
Synonyms: |
angle, cant, cross, incline, oblique, slant |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Main Entry: | buzzword |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular word or phrase |
Synonyms: |
argot, cant, doublespeak, fuzzword, jargon, lingo, mediaspeak, phraseology, policyspeak, slang |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
Synonyms: |
amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
| Main Entry: | grade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incline, slope |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascent, bank, cant, climb, declivity, descent, downgrade, elevation, embankment, gradient, height, hill, inclination, inclined plane, lean, leaning, level, obliquity, pitch, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tangent, tilt, upgrade |