| Main Entry: | absurdity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous situation or behavior |
Synonyms: |
BS, applesauce, bull*, crap, craziness, farce, flapdoodle, folly, foolishness, hot air, idiocy, illogicality, illogicalness, improbability, inanity, incongruity, insanity, irrationality, jazz, jive, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, unreasonableness |
Antonyms: |
logic, reason, reasonableness, sense |
| Main Entry: | banter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tease |
Synonyms: |
chaff, deride, fool, fun, jeer, jest, jive, joke, josh, kid, make fun of, mock, rag, razz, rib, ridicule, satirize, taunt |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
Synonyms: |
affect, beguile, betray, bunco, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake out, fake*, feign, fool, humbug, illude, jive, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, psych out, put on*, sham*, shuck, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick |
Antonyms: |
come clean, reveal, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag |
Synonyms: |
advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor |
Antonyms: |
be modest, deprecate |
| Main Entry: | brag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk boastingly |
Synonyms: |
blow one's own horn, bluster*, boast, crow*, exult, gasconade, gloat, grandstand, hotdog, jive, mouth*, pat oneself on the back, prate, puff, rodomontade, showboat, shuck, swagger, vaunt |
Antonyms: |
be modest, be quiet, deprecate |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| Main Entry: | colloquial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, familiar to an area, informal |
Synonyms: |
chatty, common, conversational, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, jive, popular, street*, vernacular |
Antonyms: |
correct, formal, standard, stilted |
| Main Entry: | conversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue, discourse |
Synonyms: |
chat, colloquy, comment, communication, communion, confab, confabulation, conference, consultation, converse, debate, discussion, exchange, expression, gab, gossip, hearing, intercourse, jive, observation, palaver, parley, pillow talk, powwow, questioning, remark, repartee, speech, talk, talkfest, tète-à-tète, ventilation, visit, yak |
Antonyms: |
quiet, quietude, silence |
| Main Entry: | dance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving feet and body to music |
Synonyms: |
Charleston, bob, boogie, boogie down, bunny hop, caper, careen, cavort, conga, cut a rug, disco, flit, foot it, foxtrot, frolic, gambol, get down, hoof it, hop, hustle, jig, jitter, jitterbug, jive, jump, leap, one-step, prance, promenade, rhumba, rock, rock n' roll, samba, shimmy, skip, spin, step, strut, sway, swing, tango, tap, tread, trip, trip the light fantastic, twist, two-step, waltz, whirl |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle |
