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| Main Entry: | cadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm |
| Synonyms: | accent, beat, count, inflection, intonation, lilt, measure, meter, modulation, pulse, swing, tempo, throb, rhythmus |
| Main Entry: | meter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm, beat |
| Synonyms: | cadence, feet, lilt, measure, music, pattern, poetry, rhyme, structure, swing, cadency, mora |
| Main Entry: | rhyme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poetry in which lines end with like sounds |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, couplet, harmony, iambic pentameter, measure, meter, ode, poem, poetry, rhythm, song, tune, verse, alliteration, doggerel, half-rhyme, nursery rhyme, poesy, rune, slant rhyme, vowel-chime |
| Main Entry: | rhythm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, accent of sound, music |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, downbeat, flow, lilt, measure, meter, movement, pattern, pulse, regularity, rhyme, swing, tempo, time, uniformity, cadency, metre, periodicity, rise and fall |
| Main Entry: | swing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving back and forth |
| Synonyms: | beat, cadence, fluctuation, lilt, measure, meter, motion, oscillation, rhythm, stroke, sway, tempo, undulation, vibration, cadency, swaying |
| Main Entry: | tempo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, rhythm |
| Synonyms: | bounce, cadence, downbeat, measure, meter, momentum, pace, pulse, rate, speed, time, velocity |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throbbing |
| Synonyms: | cadence, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulse, quake, quiver, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, shake, surge, swell, swing, throb, thump, tick, undulation, vibration, cadency, pulsation |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stress or pitch in pronunciation |
| Synonyms: | articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tone, accentuation, enunciation, tonality |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | abasement, anticlimax, cadence, comedown, debasement, decadence, decline, degradation, discomfiture, down, downfall, lapse, pathos, slump, downcome |
| Antonyms: | improvement, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | measure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beat, rhythm |
| Synonyms: | accent, cadence, division, melody, meter, rhyme, step, stress, stroke, swing, tempo, throb, time, tune, verse, vibration, cadency |
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