adumbration
91shadow — n 1. silhouette, adumbration, outline, reflection. 2. shade, shadiness. See shade(def. 1). 3. shelter, protection, refuge, asylum, haven, sanctuary, sanctum, safety zone, Scot. bield; security, safety, safekeeping, preservation; help, aid,… …
92silence — n 1. stillness, still, hush; noiselessness, soundlessness, quiet, quietness, quietude, Chiefly Irish. whist, Sl. q.t.; peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, calm, calmness, placidity, serenity, tranquility, rest, repose. 2. muteness, Psychiatry.… …
93type — n 1. kind, sort, form, stamp; class, classification, group, category, order, genre; set, suit, suite; genus, species, phylum, division, subgenus, subspecies, subdivision; kin, ilk, family, brood, tribe, clan; strain, sept, breed, stock, variety,… …
94Cleveland, John — (1613 1658) Poet, s. of an usher in a charity school, was b. at Loughborough, and ed. at Camb., where he became coll. tutor and lecturer on rhetoric at St. John s, and was much sought after. A staunch Royalist, he opposed the election of… …
95adumbrate — /ˈædəmbreɪt / (say aduhmbrayt) verb (t) (adumbrated, adumbrating) 1. to give a faint shadow or resemblance of; outline or shadow forth. 2. to foreshadow; prefigure. 3. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow. {Latin adumbrātus, past participle …
96emblem — [n] crest adumbration, arms, attribute, badge, banner, brand, character, coat of arms, colophon, colors, design, device, figure, flag, hallmark, identification, image, impress, insignia, logo, mark, marker, medal, memento, miniature, monogram,… …
97figure of speech — [n] communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, comparison, conceit, echoism,… …
98hint — [n] indication; suggestion adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear*, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation …
99indication — [n] evidence, clue adumbration, attestation, augury, auspice, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, forewarning, gesture, hint, implication, index, indicia, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent,… …
100revelation — [n] disclosure, telling adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow*, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye opener*,… …
