takeoff

• abandon
• abate
• abbreviate
• abridge
• abscond
• adjourn
• ascent
• bail
• bail out
• beat it
• begone
• blastoff
• bleed
• book
• break in
• bug off
• bug out
• bugger off
• burglarize
• burgle
• burlesque
• caricature
• cartoon
• cheat
• chisel
• clear off
• clear out
• climb
• clip
• comedy
• cozen
• crop
• curtail
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• cut out
• decamp
• decrease
• deduct
• defraud
• depart
• departure
• desert
• despoil
• dig out
• diminish
• discount
• disrobe
• distortion
• dock
• doff
• douse
• downsize
• dwindle
• emigrate
• escape
• evacuate
• exaggeration
• exit
• exploit
• farce
• flee
• fleece
• fly
• forsake
• get
• get off
• get out
• go
• go off
• go out
• hit the road
• hold up
• hop
• humor
• husk
• hustle
• imitation
• impersonation
• jump
• knock down
• knock off
• knock over
• lampoon
• launch
• lessen
• liftoff
• light out
• loot
• lower
• mimicking
• mizzle
• mockery
• mocking
• move
• mug
• mulct
• pare
• parody
• part
• peel off
• pillage
• pluck
• plunder
• prune
• pull out
• pull stakes
• pull up stakes
• push off
• push on
• put off
• put-on
• quit
• ransack
• ravish
• reduce
• remove
• retire
• retreat
• retrench
• rib
• ridicule
• rifle
• rip off
• rise
• rob
• roll
• rook
• run along
• run away
• sack
• satire
• scarper
• scat
• scram
• send-up
• set out
• shed
• shortchange
• shorten
• shrug off
• sketch
• skin
• skip
• slapstick
• slash
• spoil
• spoof
• squeeze
• squib
• start
• step out
• stick
• stick up
• sting
• strike out
• strip
• subtract
• swindle
• take a hike
• take a powder
• take a walk
• travesty
• trim
• truncate
• undress
• upward flight
• vacate
• vamoose
• walk out
• whittle
• withdraw

• abide
• add
• adjoin
• aggrandize
• amplify
• annex
• apparel
• append
• approach
• array
• arrival
• arrive
• attire
• augment
• bedeck
• boost
• close
• clothe
• come
• coming
• complement
• compound
• crash
• don
• dress
• dwell
• enhance
• enlarge
• escalate
• expand
• garb
• heighten
• hit
• increase
• intensify
• land
• landing
• lodge
• magnify
• multiply
• near
• put on
• raise
• reach
• remain
• rig
• robe
• settle
• show up
• splashdown
• stay
• suit
• supplement
• tarry
• turn up
• wear

• noun
  1. The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.
  2. A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
  3. A quantification, especially of building materials.
  4. The removal of sheets from the press.
  5. The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.

• The takeoff was delayed due to bad weather conditions.
• Passengers must fasten their seatbelts during takeoff and landing.
• The pilot announced that the takeoff would be smooth despite the storm.
• The rocket's takeoff was an impressive sight, leaving a trail of smoke behind.
• The airplane's sudden takeoff startled the passengers, but the flight was otherwise uneventful.

day one

• advent
• alpha
• appearance
• arrival
• baseline
• basis
• beginning
• birth
• blast off
• blastoff
• childhood
• coming
• commencement
• countdown
• cradle
• creation
• dawn
• dawning
• debut
• derivation
• drawing board
• early stage
• embarkation
• emergence
• entrance
• entry
• first base
• first step
• flying start
• forging
• foundation
• founding
• fountain
• fountainhead
• genesis
• germ
• get-go
• git go
• git-go
• ground zero
• inauguration
• inception
• incipience
• incipiency
• induction
• infancy
• ingress
• initiation
• installation
• institution
• introduction
• jump-off
• kickoff
• launch
• leadoff
• leaving
• morning
• nascence
• nascency
• nativity
• onset
• opener
• opening
• origin
• origination
• outbreak
• outset
• point of departure
• preface
• prelude
• presentation
• rise
• root
• rudiment
• running start
• seedbed
• setting-out
• source
• spring
• square one
• start
• start-off
• starting point
• takeoff
• threshold
• top
• well
• wellspring
• youth

echoing

• Xerox
• agreeable
• alveolate
• apery
• aping
• appealing
• articulating
• barrage
• beating
• blending
• boom
• booming
• broad
• cadenced
• canorous
• carbon copy
• cavernous
• ceaseless
• chambered
• chasmal
• chattering
• chiming
• chordal
• clangor
• clangorous
• clone
• commodious
• concave
• consonant
• continuous
• conversing
• copy
• copycatting
• copying
• counterfeit
• counterfeiting
• counterpart
• curved inward
• deep
• deep-set
• deep-toned
• discussing
• ditto
• dittoing
• drone
• drumbeat
• drumming
• dulcet
• dull
• dupe
• duplicate
• duplicating
• duplication
• earsplitting
• electrifying
• eloquent
• emphatic
• emulating
• enhanced
• enunciating
• ersatz
• euphonic
• euphonious
• expressing
• fake
• flat
• flowing
• following
• forceful
• forgery
• full
• gaping
• ghostly
• grumble
• harmonic
• harmonious
• harmonizing
• heightened
• homophonic
• huge
• image
• imitating
• impersonation
• impression
• intensified
• likeness
• lilting
• loud
• low
• lyric
• lyrical
• match
• matching
• mellifluent
• mellifluous
• mellow
• melodic
• melodious
• mime
• mimesis
• mimicking
• mimicry
• miming
• mirroring
• mockery
• mouthing
• muffled
• musical
• mute
• muted
• noisy
• orating
• orchestral
• orotund
• parallel
• paralleling
• paraphrasing
• parody
• parroting
• patterning
• perpetual
• phony
• picture
• plangent
• pleasant
• polyphonic
• polyphonous
• powerful
• profound
• pronouncing
• pulsating
• pulsing
• quaver
• quavering
• quoting
• racket
• ranting
• rat-a-tat
• reduplicating
• reechoing
• reflecting
• reflection
• reiterative
• repeating
• repetitious
• replica
• representing
• reproducing
• reproduction
• resemblance
• resonance
• resonant
• resonating
• resounding
• reverberant
• reverberating
• rhythmic
• rhythmical
• rich
• ringer
• ringing
• roar
• roaring
• rolling
• roomy
• rotund
• round
• rumble
• rumbling
• semblance
• sepulchral
• sham
• simulacrum
• socketed
• songful
• songlike
• sonorant
• sonorous
• sounding
• spacious
• spouting
• stentorian
• strident
• sunken
• sweet
• symphonic
• symphonious
• takeoff
• thrilling
• throbbing
• thunder
• thundering
• thunderous
• tonal
• toneless
• transcription
• travesty
• trilling
• tuneful
• vast
• verbalizing
• vibrant
• vibrating
• vocalizing
• warbling
• wide
• yawning

facetiousness

• absurdity
• amusement
• aphorism
• badinage
• ball
• banter
• bon mot
• buffoonery
• buoyancy
• burlesque
• camp
• chaffing
• cheer
• cheerfulness
• childishness
• clowning
• comedy
• comic drama
• comicality
• comicalness
• drollery
• drollness
• farce
• farcicality
• festivity
• fickleness
• field day
• flightiness
• flippancy
• folly
• foolishness
• frivolity
• frivolousness
• frothiness
• fun
• fun and games
• funnies
• funniness
• gag
• gag show
• gaiety
• gayety
• giddiness
• glee
• gleefulness
• goofiness
• grins
• happiness
• high camp
• high spirits
• high time
• high-spiritedness
• hilarity
• hoopla
• humor
• humorousness
• interlude
• jest
• jesting
• jocoseness
• jocosity
• jocularity
• joke
• joking
• joviality
• joyfulness
• kidding
• lark
• laughs
• levity
• light entertainment
• light-headedness
• light-mindedness
• lightheartedness
• lightness
• ludicrousness
• merriment
• merry-go-round
• mirth
• mirthfulness
• picnic
• playfulness
• pleasantry
• practical joke
• prank
• puerility
• pun
• quip
• raillery
• repartee
• ridiculousness
• sally
• satire
• schtick
• send-up
• silliness
• sitcom
• slapstick
• takeoff
• tomfoolery
• travesty
• trick
• trifling
• triviality
• vaudeville
• volatility
• waggery
• whimsicality
• whimsy
• wisecrack
• wisecracking
• wit
• witticism
• wittiness
• wordplay
• zaniness

illogicality

• absurdity
• amusement
• burlesque
• caricature
• comedy
• comic
• comicality
• contradiction
• dichotomy
• drollery
• drollness
• enjoyment
• farce
• foolishness
• fun
• funniness
• hilariousness
• humor
• humorousness
• illogicalness
• impracticality
• incongruity
• insanity
• irony
• irrationality
• jest
• jocularity
• jokiness
• lampoon
• laughableness
• ludicrousness
• paradox
• parody
• peculiarity
• playfulness
• pleasure
• richness
• ridiculousness
• satire
• slapstick
• spoof
• takeoff
• unreasonableness
• uproariousness
• waggishness
• whimsicality
• wittiness
• wryness

jive

• BS
• Charleston
• Dixieland
• Janus-faced
• Pecksniffian
• absurdity
• act
• adulation
• advertise
• affect
• affected
• aggrandize
• alibi
• allege
• allusion
• amuse
• annoy
• answer
• apologetics
• apologia
• apologizing
• apology
• applause
• applesauce
• approbation
• argot
• argument
• artfulness
• artifact
• artifice
• artificial
• assume
• assumed
• attract attention
• babble
• backhanded
• badger
• badinage
• bait
• balderdash
• baloney
• bamboozle
• bamboozlement
• bananas
• banter
• be at
• be deceitful
• be hypocritical
• be noncommittal
• beat around the bush
• bebop
• bedevil
• beg the question
• beguile
• beleaguer
• belie
• bend
• betray
• bias
• bilk
• bill of goods
• blandishment
• blarney
• blather
• blow
• blow hot and cold
• blow smoke
• blues
• bluff
• bluster
• boast
• bogus
• bombast
• bon mot
• boogie
• boogie down
• boogie-woogie
• boondoggle
• bootlicking
• bop
• bother
• buckle
• bull
• bully
• bunco
• bunk
• bunkum
• bunny hop
• bureaucratese
• burlesque
• burn
• buzz
• caboodle
• cajolery
• campy
• cant
• canting
• caricature
• caricaturize
• cartoon
• catch
• cavil
• chaff
• chat
• chatter
• chatty
• cheat
• chicane
• chicanery
• chitchat
• chouse
• circumvent
• circumvention
• claim
• claim falsely
• claptrap
• cleanup
• clip
• cloud the issue
• cock-a-doodle-doo
• coin
• colloquial
• colloquialism
• colloquy
• coloring
• come-off
• commendation
• comment
• common
• communication
• communion
• computerese
• con
• con game
• concoct
• concoction
• confab
• confabulation
• conference
• confidence game
• conga
• congratulate oneself
• consultation
• contortion
• contrive
• contrived
• conversation
• conversational
• converse
• cop a plea
• cop out
• cop-out
• counterfeit
• cover
• cover story
• cover up
• cover-up
• coverup
• cozen
• cozening
• crack
• crack wise
• craft
• craftiness
• crap
• craziness
• create fiction
• crock
• crookedness
• crow
• cry
• cunning
• cut a rug
• cyberspeak
• debate
• deceit
• deceitful
• deceive
• deception
• decoy
• defense
• deflate
• defraud
• delude
• demotic
• deride
• device
• devil
• devious
• devise
• dialect
• dialectal
• diddle
• dirty dealing
• dirty pool
• dirty trick
• dirty work
• disco
• discussion
• disguise
• dishonest
• dishonesty
• disinform
• dissemblance
• dissemble
• dissimulate
• dissimulation
• distort
• disturb
• ditch
• divert
• do
• do a number on
• do number on
• do out of
• dodge
• dodging
• dog
• double
• double-cross
• double-deal
• double-dealing
• double-faced
• double-talk
• drivel
• duck
• dupe
• duplicity
• educationese
• elaborate explanation
• elude
• elusion
• embezzle
• empty
• empty talk
• encomium
• entertain
• equivocate
• equivocating
• equivocation
• escape
• eschew
• eschewal
• eulogy
• evade
• evading
• evasion
• evasiveness
• everyday
• exaggerate
• exaggeration
• exchange
• exculpation
• excuse
• excusing
• exoneration
• expedient
• explaining
• expose
• expression
• extenuation
• exult
• eyewash
• fable
• fabricate
• facade
• facetious
• facile
• fairy story
• fake
• fake out
• fakery
• fallacy
• false
• false front
• falsehood
• falsify
• fancy footwork
• farce
• fast one
• fast shuffle
• fatuity
• fawning
• feign
• feigned
• feint
• fence
• fib
• fiction
• figment
• fish
• fish story
• fix
• flapdoodle
• flatter oneself
• flattering
• flaunt
• fleece
• fleer
• flightiness
• flimflam
• flip-flop
• flourish
• flout
• flummery
• foil
• folly
• fool
• foolery
• foolishness
• foot it
• forced
• forge
• forgery
• form
• foul play
• fox
• foxtrot
• frame
• fraud
• frolic
• fudge
• fudging
• fugiviteness
• fugivity
• fulsomeness
• fun
• funny
• fusion jazz
• futile talk
• gab
• gag
• gallantry
• gambol
• game
• garbage
• garble
• gasconade
• get down
• gibberish
• gibe
• giddiness
• gimmick
• gird
• give a good account of oneself
• give a hard time
• give the runaround
• glib
• gloat
• glory
• gnaw
• goad
• gobbledygook
• goof on
• gossip
• governmentese
• grandstand
• grapevine
• grounds
• gull
• hanky-panky
• harass
• harry
• haze
• hearing
• hearsay
• hector
• hedge
• hem and haw
• hint
• hoax
• hoaxing
• hocus-pocus
• hogwash
• hokum
• hollow
• hollow words
• honeyed words
• hoodwink
• hooey
• hop
• horse around
• hot air
• hot jazz
• hot-dog
• hug oneself
• humbug
• humiliate
• hustle
• hypocrisy
• hypocritical
• hypocritical respect
• hypocriticalness
• idiocy
• idiom
• idiomatic
• idle talk
• illogicality
• illogicalness
• illude
• illusion
• imitation
• impersonate
• importune
• impose on
• impose upon
• impostor
• imposture
• improbability
• improvisational music
• imprudence
• inanity
• incongruity
• ingratiation
• innuendo
• insanity
• insincere
• insincerity
• insinuation
• intercourse
• intorsion
• invent
• invention
• irrationality
• jabber
• jape
• jargon
• jaw
• jazz
• jeer
• jest
• jibe
• jig
• jitter
• jitterbug
• jocular
• joke
• jolly
• josh
• journalese
• juggle
• juke
• jump
• justification
• kid
• kid around
• lampoon
• language
• laud
• laugh
• laugh at
• lay claim
• lay on thick
• lead on
• lead up garden path
• leap
• left-handed
• let on
• lie
• line
• lingo
• lip
• lip devotion
• lip homage
• lip praise
• lip reverence
• lip worship
• localism
• ludicrousness
• madness
• make a fool of
• make a game of
• make a laughingstock
• make believe
• make fun of
• make like
• make merry
• make out
• make up
• makeshift
• malarkey
• malconformation
• malformation
• malinger
• masquerade
• mealy
• mealymouthed
• meaningless
• mechanical
• milk
• mimic
• mince words
• misguide
• misinterpretation
• mislead
• misrepresent
• misrepresentation
• misshape
• misspeak
• misstatement
• misuse
• mitigation
• mock
• mockery
• monologue
• mousetrap
• mouth
• mouth honor
• mouthing
• mumbo jumbo
• mush
• mutilation
• myth
• needle
• noise
• nonsense
• nudge
• number
• obliqueness
• obsequiousness
• observation
• off-time
• one-liner
• one-step
• opus
• outfox
• outwit
• palaver
• palter
• pan
• parlance
• parley
• parody
• parry
• pass off
• pass oneself off as
• pass the buck
• pat oneself on the back
• patois
• patter
• persiflage
• perversion
• pester
• pharisaical
• pharisaism
• phoney
• phoney-baloney
• phoniness
• phony
• phony up
• phony-baloney
• pick on
• pidgin
• piffle
• pilfer
• pillow talk
• pious
• pitch
• plague
• plant
• plaudits
• play
• play a trick on
• play for a fool
• play the clown
• play trick on
• play tricks
• play-act
• plea
• pleasantry
• poke fun
• poke fun at
• pooh-pooh
• poppycock
• popular
• prank
• prate
• prattle
• preen
• pretend
• pretended
• pretense
• pretext
• pretty speech
• prevaricate
• prevarication
• profess
• promenade
• promote
• prose
• provincialism
• psych
• psych out
• puff
• puffery
• pull fast one
• pull wool over
• purport
• pussyfoot
• put down
• put on
• put one over on
• put up a front
• put-on
• questioning
• quibble
• quip
• quiz
• racket
• rag
• ragtime
• rail at
• raillery
• rally
• ranting
• rashness
• rationalization
• razz
• regionalism
• regrets
• rejoinder
• remark
• repartee
• reply
• report
• response
• retort
• return
• revel
• rhumba
• rib
• rib-tickler
• ride
• ridicule
• ridiculousness
• rigmarole
• rip off
• ripoff
• roast
• rob
• rodomontade
• rook
• rot
• routine
• rubbish
• rumble
• rumor
• run around
• run down
• runaround
• ruse
• sales talk
• sally
• samba
• sanctimonious
• satirize
• scam
• scoff
• scorn
• scout
• scrawl
• scribble
• scuttlebutt
• self-righteous
• sell
• sellout
• semblance
• send up
• senselessness
• set up
• shady deal
• shaft
• sham
• sharp practice
• shell game
• shift
• shilly-shally
• shirking
• shoot
• shop
• shoptalk
• shovel
• show off
• show up
• showboat
• shuck
• shuffle
• shuffling
• shunning
• sidestep
• silliness
• simon-pure
• simulate
• simulated
• sit on the fence
• slam
• slang
• slanguage
• slant
• sling
• small talk
• smoke
• smooth talk
• snap
• snare
• sneer
• snow
• snow job
• soft soap
• soft words
• soft-soap
• song
• song and dance
• sophism
• sophistry
• sound
• sound off
• speak with forked tongue
• speech
• spiel
• spin
• spoof
• sport
• stab in the back
• stall
• step
• stick
• sting
• stonewall
• stopgap
• story
• strained
• stratagem
• street
• stretch the truth
• string along
• stroking
• strut
• stultiloquence
• stunt
• stupidity
• substitute
• subterfuge
• suck in
• sucker
• sucker into
• superficial
• swagger
• sweet-talk
• swindle
• swing
• swipe at
• sycophancy
• take
• take for a ride
• take in
• take off
• take the mickey out of
• take to the cleaners
• takeoff
• talk
• talk big
• talkfest
• tall story
• tango
• tantalize
• tap
• taunt
• tease
• technobabble
• tell a little white lie
• tell white lie
• temporize
• tergiversate
• tergiverse
• terminology
• the business
• thoughtlessness
• toadyism
• token agreement
• tokenism
• tomfoolery
• tongue-in-cheek
• torment
• torture
• trap
• trash
• travesty
• treachery
• tribute
• trick
• trickery
• trickiness
• trifle
• trip the light fantastic
• tripe
• triumph
• truckling
• trump up
• twaddle
• twist
• twistedness
• twit
• two-faced
• two-step
• unctuous
• unctuousness
• unmask
• unnatural
• unreasonableness
• untruth
• untruthful
• useless words
• vapor
• vaunt
• ventilation
• vernacular
• vernacularism
• vex
• victimize
• vindication
• visit
• vocabulary
• waffle
• waltz
• warp
• weasel
• whitewash
• why and wherefore
• wile
• wiliness
• wisecrack
• witticism
• work
• worry
• wrinkle
• wrong
• yak
• yarn
• yuck
• yuk

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