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Main Entry:	rant
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	yelling, raving
Synonyms:	bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, rhapsody, vociferation
Antonyms:	calm, quiet

Main Entry:	rant
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	yell, rave
Synonyms:	bellow, bloviate, blow one's top, bluster, carry on, clamor, cry, declaim, fume, harangue, mouth, objurgate, orate, perorate, rage, rail, roar, scold, shout, sizzle, soapbox, sound off, spiel, spout, storm, stump, take on, vociferate
Antonyms:	be quiet

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Main Entry:	anger
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make someone mad; become mad
Synonyms:	acerbate, affront, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, arouse, bait, blow up, boil over, boil, bristle, burn, burn up, chafe, craze, cross, displease, egg on, embitter, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, gall, get mad, get on one's nerves, goad, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, lose one's temper, madden, make sore, miff, nettle, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, raise hell, rankle, rant, rave, rile, ruffle, seethe, steam up, stew, stir up, tempt, umbrage, vex
Antonyms:	calm, forbear, make happy, quiet, soothe

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Main Entry:	babble
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	talk trivially, often incessantly
Synonyms:	blab, blubber, blurt, burble, cackle, chat, chatter, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, spill the beans, squeal, tattle, yak*, gibber, run off at the mouth, run on, talk foolishly, talk incoherently, talk nonsensically, trivialize, yakkety yak
Antonyms:	be quiet

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Main Entry:	bluster
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	bully, intimidate
Synonyms:	badger, boast, brag, brazen, browbeat, bulldoze, cow, crow, domineer, gloat, hector, rant, rave, ride the high horse, roar, roister, shoot off one's mouth, show off, storm, strut, swagger, swell, talk big, vapor, vaunt, yap*

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Main Entry:	bravado
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	boastfulness
Synonyms:	blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, bullying, guts, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, swelling, talk, braggadocio, bragging, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, tall talk
Antonyms:	cowardice, fear, modesty, restraint, fearfulness

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Main Entry:	declaim
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	proclaim; get on a soapbox
Synonyms:	attack, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, speak, spiel, spout, bloviate, blow hot air, hold forth, pile it on, soapbox, talk big

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Main Entry:	exaggeration
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	overstatement, embellishment
Synonyms:	amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story
Antonyms:	reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment

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Main Entry:	fume
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	get very upset about
Synonyms:	anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, rage, rant, rave, seethe, smoke, storm*, chomp at the bit, get hot, get steamed up
Antonyms:	be calm, be happy

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Main Entry:	harangue
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	give a long lecture
Synonyms:	accost, address, chew out, declaim, exhort, orate, perorate, rant, rave, spiel, spout, stump, apostrophize, buttonhole*, get on a soapbox, go on about, hold forth, soapbox, talk to, yell at

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Main Entry:	object
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disagree, argue against
Synonyms:	balk, challenge, complain, criticize, cross, demur, deprecate, disapprove, disavow, discountenance, dispute, dissent, except, expostulate, frown, gripe, grouse, inveigh, kick, oppose, protest, rail, rant, rave, remonstrate, spurn, squawk, storm, take on, tangle*, be displeased, crab, discommend, disesteem, go-one-on-one, make a stink, mix it up with, raise objection, sound off, take exception
Antonyms:	accept, agree, concur, consent, go along

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Main Entry:	rage
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	be angry
Synonyms:	be beside oneself, be furious, be uncontrollable, blow a fuse, blow one's top, blow up, boil over, bristle, chafe, champ at bit, erupt, fly off the handle, foam at the mouth*, fret, fulminate, fume, go berserk, have a fit, have a tantrum, let off steam, look daggers, make a fuss over, overflow, rail at, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rave, roar, scold, scream, seethe, snap at, splutter, steam, storm, surge, tear, throw a fit, work oneself into sweat, yell
Notes:	ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness
Antonyms:	be happy

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Main Entry:	rail
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	criticize harshly
Synonyms:	abuse, attack, bawl out, berate, blast, castigate, censure, chew out, complain, fulminate, fume, inveigh, jaw, rant, rate, revile, scold, thunder, upbraid, vituperate, vociferate, whip, objurate, tongue-lash*
Antonyms:	compliment, praise

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Main Entry:	rhetoric
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	wordiness; long speech
Synonyms:	address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, fustian, hot air*, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity, flowery language, grandiloquence
Antonyms:	conciseness

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Main Entry:	storm
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	attack, rush
Synonyms:	assail, assault, beset, bluster, carry on, charge, come at, complain, drizzle, drop, fly, fume, go on, howl, pour, rage, rain, rant, rave, rip, roar, scold, sizzle, spit, squall, stalk, stomp, strike, take on, tear, thunder, aggress, blow violently, breathe fire, burn up, set in, sound off, steam up*, take by storm

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Main Entry:	utterance
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	revelation
Synonyms:	announcement, articulation, assertion, declaration, delivery, discourse, ejaculation, expression, opinion, oration, pronouncement, rant, recitation, remark, reply, response, saying, sentence, speaking, speech, spiel, statement, talk, vent, voice, word, words, asseveration, peroration, verbalization, vocalization, vociferation
Antonyms:	silence

Main Entry:	flare
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	erupt, blow
Synonyms:	blaze, break out, burn, burst, dart, dazzle, explode, flash, flicker, flutter, fume, glare, glow, go off, rant, seethe, shimmer, shoot, waver, boil over, burn up, fire up, lose control

Main Entry:	rave
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	talk endlessly
Synonyms:	babble, be delirious, bloviate, blow one's top, carry on, come unglued, declaim, flip one's lid, freak out*, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, make a to-do, mouth, orate, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder, wander

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Main Entry:	spout
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	talk forcefully
Synonyms:	boast, brag, chatter, declaim, expatiate, go on, gush, harangue, hold forth, orate, pontificate, ramble, rant, sermonize, shoot off one's mouth, speechify, spellbind, spiel, vapor, yell
Antonyms:	be quiet