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take the place of. supplant, supersede, displace, subst.i.tute.
take upon one's self. a.s.sume, undertake; arrogate, usurp.
taking, a. alluring, fascinating, winning, charming, captivating.
taking, n. seizure, apprehension; reprisal; prehension.
taking back. recantation, retraction, resumption, disavowal, revocation.
tale, n. story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable, narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow).
tale-bearer, n. scandal-monger, busybody, quidnunc, tattler, telltale, tabby, gossip.
talent, n. endowment, faculty, gift, forte, knack, genius.
talented, a. gifted, endowed, clever.
talk, v. speak, converse, confer, confabulate, consult; babble, prattle, prate, chatter, gabble, gibber, blather; expatiate, descant, comment, harp, rant; palaver.
talk, n. conversation, converse, colloquy, conference, confabulation, chat, parley, _causerie_, parlance, confab; dialogue, interlocution; soliloquy, monologue; palaver, buncombe, blarney, blandishment, flattery, flummery; chaff, banter, raillery, persiflage, badinage, asteistn; chatter, babble, chit chat, gibberish, jargon, twaddle, fustian, moons.h.i.+ne, hanky-panky, jabbering, rhapsody, rant, grandiloquence; expatiation, descant.
talkative, a. garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble, unreserved. Antonyms: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent, still.
talkativeness, n. garrulity, loquacity, communicativeness multiloquence. Antonyms: reserve, reticence, taciturnity.
talker, n. conversationalist; interlocutor; chatterer, babler, magpie, chatterbox.
tall, a. lofty, high, towering.
tally, n. mate, match, counterpart; score, account, record.
tally, v. match, conform, agree, correspond, coincide, square, comport, accord.
tame, v. domesticate, reclaim, break; discipline, subjugate, conquer, repress.
tame, a. docile, domesticated, gentle; prosy, dull, vapid; submissive, subdued.
tamper, v. meddle, tinker.
tangible, a. palpable, tactile, material; substantial, evident, perceptible, obvious.
tangle, v. snarl, entangle, interweave; embroil, insnare, entrap, involve, perplex, enmesh. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.
tangle, n. snarl, complication, intricacy; imbroglio, perplexity.
Antonyms: disentanglement, extrication.
tangled, a. entangled, complicated, tangly, snarled, intricate, involved.
tank, n. reservoir, vat.
tantalize, v. torment, plague, vex, disappoint.
tap, n. stopper, plug, spigot, spile, faucet.
tap, v. broach.
tape needle. bodkin.
tapering, a. conical, taper, pyramidal, fusiform.
tapeworms, n. pl. taenia. a.s.sociated Words: taeniafuge, taeniacide, taenioid, taeniid, proglottis, segment, cysticercus, cestode, measles.
tardy, a. slow, sluggish; dilatory, reluctant, behindhand, late.
Antonyms: punctual, prompt.
tarnish, v. dim, sully, besmirch, blacken, deface.
task, n. work, labor, a.s.signment, stint; study, lesson, exercise.
taste, n. tasting gustation, degustation; flavor, savor, tang, race, relish, _gout_, saporosity, sapor, gusto, gust, sapidity; liking, fondness, appet.i.te, appetency; tincture, infusion, dash, _soupcon_; discernment, discrimination; foretaste, prelibation. Antonyms: dowdiness, tawdriness, distaste vulgarity. a.s.sociated Words: gustatory, saporific.
tasteful, a. palatable, savory, relishable, toothsome, gustable, delicious.
tasteless, a. insipid, flat, unpalatable, vapid.
tastelessness, n. insipidity, vapidity.
tasty, a. tasteful, neat. Antonyms: dowdy, tawdry, meretricious, inartistic.
tattle, v. tell, divulge, blab, peach.
tattler, n. tale-bearer, gossip, quidnunc, news-monger, busybody.
taunt, v. ridicule, deride, mock, reproach, revile, jeer twit, gibe.
taunt, n. ridicule, derision, jeer, reproach, gibe, quip, quirk.
taunting, a. reviling, derisive, jeering, sarcastic.
tawdry, a. gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant.
tax, n. a.s.sessment, toll, excise, levy, tribute, custom, duty, impost; capitation, poll-tax; charge, exaction.
tax, v. a.s.sess; exact, demand, task.
taxable, a. a.s.sessable.
tea, n. a.s.sociated Words: theine, thea, theism, samovar, caddy, theiform, mate, canister, cabaret, tannin.
