shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
abbreviation; omission; outline; gist; plan; strategy
Comintern; Communist International; Third International
to abbreviate; to abridge; to omit; to leave out; to take; to capture
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)
red flag; Red Flag (Communist Party newspaper)
rigour; rigor; closeness; compactness; tightly knit
omission; leaving out; abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement
exaggerated; overdone; overblown; hyperbolic; bombastic; grandiose
preference; priority; precedence; right of way
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
accent (on a syllable, word); stress; intonation; inflection; (language) accent (e.g. American, British); accent (e.g. in a design)
small pieces; fragments; chopped meat; scraps (of beef, pork, etc.)
expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation
colourless; colorless; achromatic; neutral (position); impartial
to speak with restraint; to understate; to downplay; to put it mildly; to say the least
to get strong; to gain strength
element; component; factor; element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully
high-level; higher-order; higher-order; higher-degree
clear; plain; distinct; obvious; evident; articulate
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
quacking; cackling; loudly (snore, complain, argue, etc.); noisily; with a buzzing sound (e.g. speaker); with a crackling sound
technical term; technical terminology
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
specialization; specialisation
affectation; pretension; thin veneer; blunt sword with a tempered steel edge
blasphemous; profane; sacrilegious
that is to say; so that means
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
logical; cogent; well-reasoned; logically consistent
wide sense (e.g. of a word); broad sense
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...