THESAURUS
household words
austerity, baldness, bareness, candor, common speech, directness, frankness, homespun, leanness, matter-of-factness, naturalness, openness, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, prosaicness, prosiness, restrainedness, rustic style, severity, simpleness, simplicity, soberness, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unimaginativeness, unpoeticalness, vernacular
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household words
Language
N
language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue,
household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.
Plainness
N
plainness, simplicity, severity, plain terms, plain English, Saxon English,
household words, plain, simple, unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished, homely, homespun, neat, severe, chaste, pure, Saxon, commonplace, matter-of- fact, natural, prosaic, dry, unvaried, monotonous, in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance, point-blank.
