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v. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"

lick, beat, bat, thrash, clobber, drub

v. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

along, with, in accompaniment

adv. together with somebody, as a companion or in association with: "His little sister came along to the movies"

delivery, speech, manner of speaking

n. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

speech, words, actor's line

n. words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"

vernacular

n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

language, speech, oral communication, spoken language

n. (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"

articulation

n. the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech

idiom, accent, dialect

n. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"

diction, enunciation

n. the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

phrasing, wording, diction, phraseology, verbiage, choice of words

n. the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

idiom, parlance

n. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

pronunciation

n. the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always correcting my pronunciation"

bar

n. a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"

key, cay

n. a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

reef

n. a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water

sandbank

n. a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide

shoal

n. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

decipher, decode, decrypt

v. read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

feel, sense, pick up, perceive

v. to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"

clear, crystallize, clear up, straighten out, illuminate, clarify, make clear, shed light on, enlighten, elucidate, make pellucid, sort out

v. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"

flagellate, scourge

v. whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"

beat, crush, defeat, trounce, vanquish, overcome, beat out

v. win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

rout, expel, rout out

v. cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"

cane, lambaste, lambast, flog

v. beat with a cane

club, bludgeon

v. strike with a club or a bludgeon

cudgel, strike with a cudgel

v. strike with a cudgel

thrash, flail, thresh

v. give a thrashing to; beat hard

worst, whip, mop up, pip, rack up

v. defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

figure, count, cipher, cypher, reckon, calculate, compute

v. make a mathematical calculation or computation

throw, fox, puzzle, baffle, gravel, stupefy, stupify, perplex, mystify, confuse, confound, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, bewilder, flummox, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound, trounce

v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"

artificial language

n. a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

lose, fail to win

v. fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"

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