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Twaddle:

To talk foolishly; prate.

Foolish, trivial, or idle talk or chatter.

pretentious or silly talk or writing

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly



syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble,baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh







Resurrection:

  1. The act of rising from the dead or returning to life.
  2. The state of one who has returned to life.
  3. The act of bringing back to practice, notice, or use; revival.
  4. Resurrection Christianity.
    1. The rising again of Jesus on the third day after the Crucifixion.
    2. The rising again of the dead at the Last Judgment.
    3. (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
    4. revival from inactivity and disuse; "it produced a resurrection of hope"
syn: Resurrection, Christ's Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ





Tacit:

  1. Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
    1. Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
    2. Law. Arising by operation of the law rather than through direct expression.
  2. Archaic. Not speaking; silent.
  3. implied (as by an act or by silence) rather than express <a tacit
    admission>

    2 in the civil law of Louisiana : arising by operation of law <a tacit mortgage>

  4. indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave
    silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a
    custody agreement"
syn: implied, silent, understood





Tangible:

    1. Discernible by the touch; palpable: a tangible roughness of the skin.
    2. Possible to touch.
    3. Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete: tangible evidence.
  1. Possible to understand or realize: the tangible benefits of the plan.
  2. Law. That can be valued monetarily: tangible property.
  3. Something palpable or concrete.
  4. tangibles Material assets.
adj :

1: perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness"

2: possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time
as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"

3: (of especially business assets) having physical substance and
intrinsic monetary value ; "tangible property like real estate";
"tangible assets such as machinery"

4: capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially
capable of being handled or touched or felt; "a barely palpable dust";
"felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and
close--palpable as cotton"

5: having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses;
"a physical manifestation"; "surrounded by tangible objects"





syn: physical, touchable, palpable, real.

ant: intangible, intangible, impalpable.





Insurrection:



1.The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.

2. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction
tries to wrest control from another





syn: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising













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