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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
palaver
1. flattery intended to persuade • Syn: blandishment, cajolery • Derivationally related forms: cajole (for: cajolery), blandish (for: blandishment) • Hypernyms: flattery 2. loud and confused and empty talk - mere rhetoric • Syn: hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric • Hypernyms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly • Syn: chatter, piffle, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble • Derivationally related forms: gabble (for: gabble), blabber (for: blabber), prattler (for: prattle), prattle (for: prattle), twaddler (for: twaddle), twaddle (for: twaddle), tittle-tattle (for: tittle-tattle), prater (for: prate), prate (for: prate), piffle (for: piffle), chatter (for: chatter), chatterer (for: chatter) • Hypernyms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise • Hyponyms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s 2. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering - He palavered her into going along • Syn: wheedle, cajole, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle • Derivationally related forms: coaxer (for: coax), coaxing (for: coax), coax (for: coax), blarney (for: blarney), cajolery (for: cajole), wheedler (for: wheedle), wheedling (for: wheedle) • Hypernyms: persuade • Hyponyms: soft-soap, browbeat, bully, swagger • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something 3. have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds • Hypernyms: parley • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Sam and Sue palaver - Sam wants to palaver with Sue
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