4 Social behavior

Use this domain for very general words having to do with how people behave in relationship to other people.

  • What general words refer to how people act in relationship to each other?
    behave, behavior, conduct, relate, relationship, socialize, society

    • 4.1 Relationships

    Use this domain for words related to relationships between people and groups of people.

    OMC Codes: 
    570 Interpersonal Relations
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34 Association
    34A Associate
    89T Association
    89A Relation
    89Z Mediation
  • What words refer to beginning a relationship?
    get acquainted, get to know, start a relationship, develop a relationship, form an association, form a partnership
  • What words refer to the process of relating to other people?
    relate to, associate with, affiliate with, participate with, partner with, fellowship with, interact with, be acquainted with, work with, collaborate, have a relationship, going together, going out, going steady
  • What words refer to the relationship itself?
    affiliation, alliance, bonding, relationship, relation, association, comradeship, participation, partnership, interaction, fellowship, interpersonal relationship,
  • What words refer to a person in a relationship?
    associate (n), comrade, participant, partner, friend, coworker, colleague, acquaintance, ally, collaborator, fellow (student), age mate, affiliate
  • What words refer to a group of people who have a relationship?
    pair, partnership, association, fellowship,
  • What words describe a group of people who have a relationship?
    allied, bonded, related, friendly, affiliated, associated,

    • 4.1.1 Friend

    Use this domain for words related to friendship.

    OMC Codes: 
    572 Friendships
    573 Cliques
  • What words are used to describe the formation of a friendship?
    build a friendship, become friends, befriend, be friendly
  • What words are used to refer to the state of being friends?
    be friends with, going together, going out, going steady
  • What words are used to refer to the friendship itself?
    friendship
  • What words are used to refer to a person who is a friend?
    friend, pal, buddy, amigo, soul mate, mate, girlfriend, boyfriend, companion
  • What are the outward signs of friendship?
    hold hands, be together, do things together, share, give gifts, show affection
  • What words describe a friendship?
    intimate, intimacy, close, deep, long-standing, old friend, improper
  • What words describe a friendship that has gone bad?
    broken relationship, break up, strained relationship, misunderstanding, co-dependency

    • 4.1.1.1 Girlfriend, boyfriend

    Use this domain for words referring to a girlfriend or boyfriend.

  • What words refer to a girlfriend or boyfriend?
    girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, lover, mistress, old flame

    • 4.1.2 Types of people

    Use this domain for words referring to different types of people.

    Related domains: 
    2.6.5 Male, female
    2.6.4 Stage of life
    4.1.9.9 Race
    4.1.4.1 Social class
  • What words refer to male and female people?
    man, woman, boy, girl
  • What words refer to people of different ages?
    baby, child, youth, adult, elder
  • What words refer to people of different races?
    yellow, brown, Asian, black, African, white, Caucasian, red, American Indian, Indian
  • What words refer to a person whose parents are from two different races?
    half-breed,
  • What words refer to a person whose parents are from the same race?
    full-blooded,
  • What words refer to a person who belongs to your group?
    one of us, one of our own, one of ours, insider, friend
  • What words refer to a person who does not belong to your group?
    foreigner, stranger, enemy, foe

    • 4.1.2.1 Working relationship

    Use this domain for words related to a relationship between people who work together.

    Related domains: 
    4.3.4.3 Cooperate with
  • What words refer to a relationship between people who work together?
    working relationship, affiliation, association, partnership
  • What words refer to beginning a working relationship?
    form an association, form a partnership
  • What words refer to the process of relating to other people at work?
    affiliate with, partner with, work with, work together, collaborate
  • What words refer to a person you work with?
    associate (n), partner, coworker, colleague, collaborator, fellow worker, affiliate
  • What words refer to a group of people who work together?
    partnership, association, office, working group

    • 4.1.3 Know someone

    Use this domain for words referring to knowing someone.

  • What words refer to knowing someone?
    know someone
  • What words refer to knowing someone, but not knowing him well?
    know someone by sight, be acquainted with, be acquaintances, don't know well, we've met,
  • What words refer to starting to know someone after you have met them?
    get to know, get acquainted,
  • What words refer to someone you know, who is not a friend?
    acquaintance, casual acquaintance
  • What words refer to knowing about someone, whom you have not met?
    know someone's name, know of someone, have heard the name, have heard of someone, have heard about someone

    • 4.1.3.1 Meet for the first time

    Use this domain for words related to meeting someone for the first time.

  • What words refer to meeting someone for the first time?
    meet (for the first time), introduce someone, introduce oneself, introduce each other, be introduced

    • 4.1.4 Neighbor

    Use this domain for words referring to a neighbor--someone who lives nearby.

    Related domains: 
    8.5 Location
    8.5.4 Area
  • What words refer to someone who lives nearby?
    neighbor, neighbor, next door neighbor
  • What words describe a good neighbor?
    good neighbor, neighborly
  • What words indicate that someone lives nearby?
    be neighbors, live next to each other, live near each other, live in the same neighborhood, live on the same street, live nearby
  • What words refer to the area around your house?
    neighborhood, community, our street, our area, subdivision, housing development, compound, apartment complex, district, vicinity, environs

    • 4.1.4.1 Social class

    Use this domain for words related to social class.

    OMC Codes: 
    560 Social Stratification
    561 Age Stratification
    562 Gender Status
    Sex Status
    563 Ethnic Stratification
    564 Castes
    565 Classes
    566 Serfdom and Peonage
    567 Slavery
  • What words refer to social class?
    class, caste, background, status, social standing, strata
  • What words refer to a person belonging to a higher class?
    upper class, aristocracy, privileged, elite, titled, posh, your betters, rich,
  • What words refer to a person belonging to the middle class?
    middle-class, bourgeois, the bourgeoisie, white-collar
  • What words refer to a person belonging to a lower class?
    working class, lower class, the masses, blue-collar, humble, popular, underclass, your inferiors, poor,
  • What words refer to a person belonging to the same class as you?
    peer
  • What words refer to moving into a higher social class?
    move up in the world, upwardly mobile, social climber
  • What words describe a society that is not divided into classes?
    classless

    • 4.1.5 Unity

    Use this domain for words related to unity--when a group of people agree with each other and are not fighting.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    63B Unite
  • What words refer to the unity of a social group?
    unity, oneness, integration, unification
  • What words refer to unifying a social group or more than one social group?
    unite, unify, join, merge, blend, fuse, consolidate
  • What words describe a group that is united?
    united, unified, cohesive, joined, combined, connected, undivided, one in spirit, one in purpose, single-minded
  • What words describe a person, force, or influence that unifies a group?
    unifying, uniting

    • 4.1.6 Disunity

    Use this domain for words related to disunity--when a group of people do not agree with each other and are fighting.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39A Opposition, Hostility
    39B Division
  • What words refer to the disunity of a social group?
    disunity, division, discord, dissidence, dissonance, friction, incompatibility, variance, dissension, dissent
  • What words refer to dividing a social group or more than one social group?
    divide, sow dissention, set at odds, pit against, part company with, have a falling out, differ, clash, disagree
  • What words describe a group that is disunited?
    disunited, divided, divided in spirit, going in different directions, discordant, out of tune, on bad terms, dissenting, factious, at odds, at cross purposes, up in arms, embroiled, torn
  • What words describe a person, force, or influence that divides a group?
    divisive, disruptive

    • 4.1.6.1 Unfriendly

    Use this domain for words related to being antisocial--when someone does not want to talk to other people or be friends with them.

    Related domains: 
    4.8.1 Hostility
  • What words describe someone who is unfriendly?
    unfriendly, cold, inhospitable, hostile, antagonistic, give someone the cold shoulder,
  • What words describe someone who does not like to be friendly and wants to be alone?
    antisocial, standoffish, distant, aloof, dour, reserved
  • What words describe a relationship that is unfriendly?
    unfriendly, cool, strained, frosty, turn sour
  • What words describe a place or situation where people are unfriendly?
    unfriendly, unwelcoming, inhospitable, impersonal, forbidding

    • 4.1.6.2 Set self apart

    Use this domain for words related to setting yourself apart from other people and not relating to them.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34D Limit or Avoid Association
  • What words refer to setting oneself apart from others and not relating to them?
    isolate, set self apart, remove, disengage, estrange, reserve, withdraw, quit, resign

    • 4.1.6.3 Alone

    Use this domain for words related to being alone.

    Related domains: 
    3.4.2.1.5 Lonely
    4.3.3.3 Abandon
  • What words describe a person who is alone?
    alone, on your own, by yourself, unaccompanied, marooned, isolated
  • What words refer to doing something alone?
    all by yourself, single-handed, solo, in isolation, self-made
  • What words describe someone who spends a lot of time alone?
    solitary, loner, recluse, keep to yourself
  • What words refer to the state of being alone?
    solitude, isolation, solitary confinement, privacy
  • What words describe someone who is alone and unhappy?
    lonely, lonesome
  • What words refer to feeling lonely because someone you love is not there?
    miss, want to see someone, feel lonesome, long for someone

    • 4.1.6.4 Independent person

    Use this domain for words describing an independent person--someone who does things without other people's help.

  • What words describe a person who does things without other people's help?
    independent, self-reliant, self-sufficient, individualist

    • 4.1.6.5 Private, public

    Use this domain for words describing something that is private--something that only concerns you, and for words describing something that is public--something that concerns many people.

  • What words describe something that only concerns you?
    private, secret, personal, innermost

    • 4.1.7 Begin a relationship

    Use this domain for words related to beginning a relationship.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34B Join, Begin To Associate
    34E Establish or Confirm a Relation
  • What words refer to beginning a relationship?
    begin a relationship, join, affiliate, associate, enlist, enroll, enter, establish, fall in with, sign up, worm your way in, hit it off,

    • 4.1.7.1 End a relationship

    Use this domain for words related to ending a relationship.

  • What words refer to ending a relationship?
    leave, walk out, desert, break up
  • What words describe a friendship that has become bad?
    broken relationship, break up, strained relationship, misunderstanding, co-dependency

    • 4.1.8 Show affection

    Use this domain for words related to showing affection.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34I Kiss, Embrace
  • What words refer to showing affection to someone?
    show affection, kiss, embrace, hug, hold hands, public display of affection

    • 4.1.9 Kinship

    Use this domain for general words for family relationships, not for specific terms.

    Related domains: 
    4.1 Relationships
    OMC Codes: 
    600 Kinship
    601 Kinship Terminology
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    10 Kinship Terms
  • What words are used to indicate that two people are related?
    be related (to someone),
  • What words refer to the relationship among members of a family?
    kinship, relationship, close relation,
  • What words refer to a member of your family or larger kin group?
    relative, in-law, kinsman, relation, distant relation, distantly related, extended family, folk, house, household, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsman, kinswoman,
  • What words refer to groups of people who are related by kinship?
    family, clan, tribe, nation
  • What words refer to a single generation?
    generation
  • What words refer to talking to someone in order to discover how you are related to them?
    (none in English)

    • 4.1.9.1 Related by birth

    Use this domain for words referring to being related by birth--when one of your ancestors and one of someone else's ancestors are the same person.

    OMC Codes: 
    602 Kin Relationships
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    10A Groups and Members of Groups of Persons Regarded as Related by Blood but without Special Reference to Successive Generations
    10B Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations
  • What words refer to being related by birth?
    related by blood, be descended from, descent, direct line, lineal descent, consanguine,
  • What words refer to someone who is related to you by birth?
    blood relation,
  • What words refer to a listing of your ancestors?
    genealogy, lineage, pedigree, family tree,
  • What words refer to inheriting physical traits from your ancestors?
    genetics, inherit, heredity, run in the family, pass on, take after, bad blood, genes, breeding

    • 4.1.9.1.1 Grandfather, grandmother

    Use this domain for words referring to grandparents and ancestors.

    OMC Codes: 
    603 Grandparents and Grandchildren
  • What words refer to the parents of your parents?
    grandparent, grandfather, grandmother
  • What words refer to your ancestors?
    ancestor, forefather, forbearer, patriarch, matriarch, progenitor, background, origins
  • What words describe something having to do with your ancestors?
    ancestral, ancestry,

    • 4.1.9.1.2 Father, mother

    Use this domain for words related to parents.

  • What words refer to your parents?
    parent, folks,
  • What words refer to your father?
    father, dad, old man, pa, papa, sire,
  • What words do you use when talking to your father?
    Dad, Father, Daddy, Pop,
  • What words refer to your mother?
    mother, mom, mum, ma, mama
  • What words do you use when talking to your mother?
    Mom, Mum, Mother, Mommy, Mummy,
  • What words refer to the state of being a parent?
    fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood,
  • What words describe something having to do with your parents?
    parental, paternal, maternal, fatherly, motherly, parentage
  • If your father has more than one wife, what do you call his other wives?
    father's wife, second wife
  • If your father dies and your mother remarries, what do you call your mother's second husband?
    stepfather
  • If your mother dies and your father remarries, what do you call your father's second wife?
    stepmother

    • 4.1.9.1.3 Brother, sister

    Use this domain for words related to siblings.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.9.1.9 Birth order
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    10C Kinship Relations of the Same Generation
  • What words refer to the children of your father and mother?
    sibling, brother, sister
  • What words indicate the order in which your brothers and sisters were born?
    elder brother, elder sister, younger brother, younger sister
  • What words refer to the children of your father by another mother, or of your mother by another father?
    half-brother, half-sister
  • When your father or mother marries a person who already has children by a previous marriage, what words refer to those children?
    stepbrother, stepsister

    • 4.1.9.1.4 Son, daughter

    Use this domain for words referring to your children.

  • What words refer to your children?
    child, son, daughter, heir, scion, kid,
  • What words refer to all your children?
    children, family, issue, brood,
  • If you marry someone who already has children, what do you call his/her children?
    stepson, stepdaughter, stepchild,

    • 4.1.9.1.5 Grandson, granddaughter

    Use this domain for words referring to your grandchildren.

    OMC Codes: 
    603 Grandparents and Grandchildren
  • What words refer to the children of your children?
    grandchild, grandson, granddaughter
  • What words refer to your descendants?
    descendant, offshoot, offspring, posterity, progeny, line,

    • 4.1.9.1.6 Uncle, aunt

    Use this domain for words related to your uncles and aunts.

    OMC Codes: 
    604 Avuncular and Nepotic Relatives
  • What words refer to your father's brother?
    uncle
  • What words refer to your father's sister?
    aunt
  • What words refer to your mother's brother?
    uncle
  • What words refer to your mother's sister?
    aunt
  • What words refer to a brother or sister of one of your grandparents?
    granduncle, grandaunt, great-uncle, great-aunt

    • 4.1.9.1.7 Cousin

    Use this domain for words referring to your cousins.

    OMC Codes: 
    605 Cousins
  • What words refer to your father's brother's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your father's sister's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your mother's brother's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your mother's sister's child?
    cousin

    • 4.1.9.1.8 Nephew, niece

    Use this domain for words referring to your nephews and nieces.

  • What words refer to your brother's child?
    nephew, niece
  • What words refer to your sister's child?
    nephew, niece

    • 4.1.9.1.9 Birth order

    Use this domain for words related to birth order.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.9.1.3 Brother, sister
  • What words refer to the order in which a child was born?
    oldest, youngest, firstborn, second born, last born, middle child
  • What words refer to the only child of its parents?
    only child

    • 4.1.9.2 Related by marriage

    Use this domain for words referring to being related by marriage.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    10D Kinship Relations Based upon Marriage
  • What words refer to being related by marriage?
    related by marriage
  • What words are used of having more than one wife?
    polygamy, multiple wives
  • What words refer to people of different tribes marrying each other?
    intermarry,

    • 4.1.9.2.1 Husband, wife

    Use this domain for words related to your spouse.

  • What words are used to refer to the person you are married to?
    spouse, husband, wife, second wife

    • 4.1.9.2.2 In-law

    Use this domain for words referring to being related by marriage.

    OMC Codes: 
    606 Parents-in-Law and Children-in-Law
    607 Siblings-in-Law
  • What words refer to being related by marriage?
    be related by marriage
  • What words refer to people who are related to you by marriage?
    in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law
  • What words describe the relationship between a husband's parents and his wife's parents?
  • What words describe the relationship between a husband's siblings and his wife's siblings?

    • 4.1.9.3 Widow, widower

    Use this domain for words referring to widows and widowers. Some languages also have words for a parent who has lost a child, someone who has lost a brother or sister, or a general word for someone who has lost a relative.

  • What words are used to refer to someone whose husband or wife has died?
    widow, widower, dowager,
  • What words refer to the death of a spouse?
    be widowed, widowhood, lose your husband/wife
  • What words are used when a person marries again?
    remarry, second marriage
  • When a person remarries, what words are used of their first spouse?
    first wife, first husband
  • What words refer to someone who has a relative who has died?
    bereaved,

    • 4.1.9.4 Orphan

    Use this domain for words referring to orphans.

  • What words refer to a child whose parents have died?
    orphan, fatherless, motherless
  • What words refer to being an orphan?
    be orphaned, be an orphan
  • What words refer to a place where orphans are taken care of?
    orphanage,

    • 4.1.9.5 Illegitimate child

    Use this domain for words referring to an illegitimate child.

    OMC Codes: 
    848 Illegitimacy
  • What words refer to a child who is born to an unmarried woman?
    illegitimate child, bastard
  • What words refer to a woman having a child when she is not married?
    have a child out of wedlock
  • What words refer to being a child without a father?
    be illegitimate, fatherless
  • What words refer to a married woman having a child by another man?
    (no words in English)

    • 4.1.9.6 Adopt

    Use this domain for words related to adopting a child.

    OMC Codes: 
    597 Adoption
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35G Adopt
  • What words refer to adopting a child?
    adopt, adoption,
  • What words refer to an adopted child?
    adopted child, foster child,
  • What words refer to the parent of an adopted child?
    adoptive father, adoptive mother, foster parent

    • 4.1.9.7 Non-relative

    Use this domain for words that refer to people who are not related by blood or marriage.

    Related domains: 
    4.1 Relationships
    OMC Codes: 
    608 Artificial Kin Relationships
    609 Behavior Toward Non-relatives
  • What words are used to refer to people who are not related to you by blood or marriage?
    non-relative, unrelated, not related

    • 4.1.9.8 Family, clan

    Use this domain for words that refer to social groups composed of related people.

    OMC Codes: 
    590 Family
    144 Racial Identification
    Racial Affinities
    591 Residence
    592 Household
    593 Family Relationships
    594 Nuclear Family
    595 Polygamy
    596 Extended Families
    610 Kin Groups
    611 Rule of Descent
    612 Kindreds and Ramages
    613 Lineages
    614 Sibs
    615 Phratries
    616 Moieties
    617 Bilinear Kin Groups
    618 Clans
    619 Tribe and Nation
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    11D Ethnic-Cultural
  • What words refer to your father, mother, and siblings?
    family, nuclear family,
  • What words refer to the people who live in your house?
    household
  • What words refer to groups of people who are related to you?
    tribe, tribal, clan, race
  • What words describe something about your family?
    family, domestic, run in the family,

    • 4.1.9.9 Race

    Use this domain for words referring to different races of people--the large groups of people in the world that are different in color and appearance.

  • What words refer to a person's race?
    race, color, ethnic group, racial, racially, ethnic, ethnicity,
  • What words refer to a person's race on the basis of their color?
    yellow, brown, black, white, red,
  • What words refer to a person's race on the basis of where their ancestors were from?
    Aborigine, African, Arab, Asian, American Indian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Indian, Latin American, Native American,
  • What words refer to mixing the races?
    integration, segregation, multiracial, interracial, cosmopolitan, multicultural, mixed,

    • 4.2 Social activity

    Use this domain for general words referring to social activities.

    OMC Codes: 
    517 Leisure Time Activities
  • What general words refer to social activities?
    socialize

    • 4.2.1 Come together, form a group

    Use this domain for words referring to coming together to form a group.

  • What words refer to people coming together to form a group?
    come together, assemble, band together, collect, cluster, come together, congregate, convene, crowd, flock, gather, join forces, muster, rendezvous, stream, throng, unite, join,
  • What words refer to the act of forming a group?
    unification, union,
  • What words describe a group that has been formed?
    unified,

    • 4.2.1.1 Invite

    Use this domain for words referring to inviting people to meet together--to say something to someone because you want to meet with them.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33D' Invite
  • What words are used of causing people to meet together?
    invite, extend an invitation, invite over, ask someone to something, assemble, bring together, call up, call together, call a meeting, collect, convene, gather, mobilize, muster, rally, request someone's presence, round up, summon, bid someone come
  • What words refer to what is said or written when inviting someone?
    invitation,
  • What words refer to someone who has been invited?
    invited guest,

    • 4.2.1.2 Encounter

    Use this domain for words referring to encountering someone.

  • What words refer to meeting someone when you did not intend to?
    encounter, meet, run into, run across, cross paths, happen to see,

    • 4.2.1.3 Meet together

    Use this domain for words related to meeting together.

  • What words refer to meeting someone?
    meet, meet together, get together, rendezvous,
  • What words refer to meeting in a group?
    have a meeting, attend, attendance, congregate, convene,

    • 4.2.1.4 Visit

    Use this domain for words related to visiting someone.

    OMC Codes: 
    574 Visiting and Hospitality
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34F Visit
  • What words refer to going to someone's place to see them?
    visit, pay a visit, call, call on, drop by, drop in on, go round, make the rounds, look in on, see, spend time with, stop by,
  • What words refer to the event of visiting someone?
    visit, appointment, interview, stay, time with, visitation,
  • What words refer to agreeing to visit?
    make an appointment, arrange a visit
  • What words refer to visiting over a night?
    stay overnight, stay with, have a sleepover
  • What words refer to a visitor?
    visitor, guest, houseguest, overnight visitor, caller,
  • What words refer to the person visited?
    host, hostess
  • What words refer to a visitor who stays for a long time but doesn't pay or help with the work?
    freeload, freeloader, sponge, sponger,

    • 4.2.1.4.1 Welcome, receive

    Use this domain for words related to welcoming a visitor.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34G Welcome, Receive
  • What words refer to welcoming a person who has just arrived?
    welcome, receive, greet, take in, grant asylum, open your door to, admit,
  • What greetings are used to welcome a guest?
    Hello. Welcome. Come in.

    • 4.2.1.4.2 Show hospitality

    Use this domain for words related to showing hospitality to a visitor.

    OMC Codes: 
    576 Etiquette
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34H Show Hospitality
  • What words refer to showing hospitality to a visitor?
    show hospitality, entertain, etiquette
  • What words describe a good host?
    gracious hostess, hospitable
  • What words describe a bad host?
    inhospitable

    • 4.2.1.5 Meeting, assembly

    Use this domain for words referring to a meeting.

  • What words refer to a meeting?
    meeting, assembly, gathering, convocation, assemblage, congregation, council, caucus, conclave, congress, convention, symposium, panel, posse
  • What words refer to the place where people meet?
    meeting place, venue, rendezvous, center, haunt,

    • 4.2.1.6 Participate

    Use this domain for words related to participating in a group--to do things with a group.

  • What words describe a person's participation in a group?
    full, complete, enthusiastic, whole-hearted, with reservations, half-hearted, hesitant, reserved, doesn't have his heart in it, involved
  • What words describe a person's stance toward a group?
    for, against, opposed, hold back, be on the fringes
  • What words describe a person's role in a group?
    ringleader, follower, hanger-on, adherent
  • What words describe a person's relationship with a group?
    join with, hesitate to join, stand apart, stand aloof
  • What words refer to a person who is not involved in a group or activity?
    bystander, onlooker, spectator, wall flower,

    • 4.2.1.7 Crowd, group

    Use this domain for words referring to a crowd or group of people.

    OMC Codes: 
    571 Social Relationships and Groups
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    11 Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes
    11A General
  • What words refer to a crowd?
    crowd, group, congregation, bunch of people, horde, mass of people, gang, mob, multitude, host, crush of people, throng, clique, rabble, horde, army, scores, thousands, swarm, body of people, crew, knot, pack, batch, band, party, company, team
  • What words describe a crowd?
    huge, large, crowded

    • 4.2.1.8 Organization

    Use this domain for words referring to an organization.

    Related domains: 
    7.5.5 Organize
    OMC Codes: 
    575 Sodalities
  • What words refer to an organization?
    organization, club, society, institution, company
  • What words refer to a part of an organization?
    department, committee
  • What words refer to starting an organization?
    form, organize

    • 4.2.1.8.1 Join an organization

    Use this domain for words related to joining an organization.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34B Join, Begin To Associate
  • What words refer to joining a group?
    join a group, affiliate, associate, enlist, enroll, enter, sign up

    • 4.2.1.8.2 Leave an organization

    Use this domain for words related to leaving an organization.

  • What words refer to leaving a group?
    leave, excuse oneself
  • What words refer to everyone leaving?
    disperse, break up, scatter
  • What words refer to resigning from a group?
    resign from a group, quit

    • 4.2.1.8.3 Belong to an organization

    Use this domain for words related to belonging to an organization.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    34C Belong to, Be Included in the Membership of, Be Excluded From
  • What words refer to belonging to a group?
    belong to a group, be a member, belong in something, be on something,
  • What words refer to someone who belongs to a group?
    member, membership, insider, one of us
  • What words refer to one organization belonging to another organization?
    be affiliated with, affiliation,

    • 4.2.1.9 Social group

    Use this domain for words referring to an organization.

    Related domains: 
    7.5.5 Organize
    OMC Codes: 
    575 Sodalities
  • What words refer to a social group?
    hippies, yuppies, beatniks, greens
  • What social groups exist in your culture?
    hippies, yuppies, beatniks, greens, teenagers

    • 4.2.2 Social event

    Use this domain for words referring to a social event.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    51 Festivals
  • What general words refer to a social event?
    event, show, special day, gathering, meal, observance

    • 4.2.2.1 Ceremony

    Use this domain for words referring to a ceremony.

    Related domains: 
    8.4.1.8 Special days
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    51 Festivals
  • What general words refer to a ceremony?
    ceremony
  • What types of ceremonies are there?
    anniversary, banquet, baptism, birthday party, carousal, celebration, christening, closing ceremony, commemoration, confirmation, consecration, convention, dance, dedication, feast, festivity, fete, funeral, funfest, gala, game night, graduation, homecoming, inauguration, induction, initiation, launching, memorial, naming ceremony, opening, grand opening, parade, party, reception, recognition, reenactment, retirement, toast, trade fair, wake, wedding,
  • What words describe a ceremony?
    solemn
  • What words refer to specific holidays?
    Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Easter, Good Friday, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Washington's Birthday, Valentine's Day, Mothers Day,

    • 4.2.2.2 Festival, show

    Use this domain for words referring to a festival or show--a large social event during which some people entertain other people.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    51 Festivals
  • What general words refer to a festival?
    festival, show, spectacle,
  • What types of festivals are there?
    carnival, fair, circus, parade, county fair, state fair,
  • What words refer to part of a festival or show?
    routine, act, ride, float, booth,

    • 4.2.2.3 Celebrate

    Use this domain for words related to celebrating.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    51 Festivals
  • What words refer to celebrating?
    celebrate, commemorate, honor, do something in someone's honor, mark, in celebration of
  • What words refer to a celebration?
    celebration, party, feast, festival, pageant, parade

    • 4.2.3 Music

    Use this domain for words related to music.

    OMC Codes: 
    533 Music
    545 Musical and Theatrical Productions
  • What general words refer to music?
    music, musical
  • What styles of music are there?
    style, pop, rock, country western, jazz, folk music, classical, longhair, modern, popular, chamber music, march, symphony, opera, ballet, musical, dance number, canned music
  • What words refer to a piece of music?
    piece of music, music piece, song, number, selection, encore
  • What words refer to part of a piece of music?
    movement, introduction, bar, finale
  • What words refer to a piece of music meant to be played or sung by one person?
    solo
  • What words refer to a piece of music meant to be played or sung by two, three, or more people?
    duet, trio, quartet, quintet
  • What words describe the sounds of music?
    scale, tune, melody, melodic, harmony, chord, pitch, soft, pianissimo, loud, forte, crescendo, rhythm, rhythmic, beat, time

    • 4.2.3.1 Compose music

    Use this domain for words related to composing music.

  • What words refer to composing music?
    compose, write, arrange
  • What words refer to a person who composes music?
    composer, writer, arranger
  • What words refer to a piece of music that a person has composed?
    composition, arrangement, score
  • What words refer to the symbols used to write music?
    music, notation, key, staff, bar, note, quarter note, half note, whole note, sharp, flat, scale

    • 4.2.3.2 Play music

    Use this domain for words related to playing music.

  • What words are used of playing music?
    play music/a piece, perform, hold a concert, make music, read music, play by ear, improvise
  • What is a musical event called?
    concert, performance, rendition, recital, revue,
  • What equipment is used in playing music?
    musical instrument, music stand, riser, baton
  • Where is music played?
    concert hall, opera house, music hall, auditorium, band stand, choir loft, orchestra pit
  • What words refer to adjusting an instrument so that it plays correctly?
    tune, in tune, out of tune, sharp, flat, warm up
  • What words refer to a machine used to record and play back music?
    phonograph, record player, tape deck, boom box
  • What words describe someone who likes to listen to music?
    music lover, critic
  • What words describe how a person plays music?
    performance, execution, touch, expression, fingering, keep time

    • 4.2.3.3 Sing

    Use this domain for words related to singing.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33G Sing, Lament
  • What words refer to singing?
    sing, serenade, yodel, chant, croon, burst into song, wail, warble
  • What words refer to singing without using words?
    hum, whistle
  • What words refer to a person who sings?
    singer, vocalist, soloist, minstrel
  • What words refer to a group of people singing together?
    choir, chorale, singing group, duet, trio, ensemble
  • What words refer to something that is sung?
    song, singing, tune, melody
  • What types of songs are there?
    lullaby, hymn, psalm, carol, national anthem, lament, ballad, funeral dirge
  • What words refer to a part of a song?
    verse, chorus, theme, note, melody, harmony
  • What words describe how well a person sings?
    beautiful singing voice, can't carry a tune in a bucket, sing on/off key
  • What words describe how high or low a person sings?
    soprano, alto, baritone, bass
  • What words describe whether or not people are singing the same thing together?
    sing in unison, sing in harmony, sing the melody/harmony, keep time

    • 4.2.3.4 Musician

    Use this domain for words related to a musician.

  • What words refer to a person who performs music?
    musician, singer, player, performer, band member, choir member
  • What is a group of musicians called?
    choir, ensemble, singing group, soloist, duo, trio, quartet, band, dance band, concert band, marching band, brass band, orchestra, full orchestra, string quartet, chamber orchestra
  • What words refer to a person who leads a group of musicians?
    director, concertmaster, bandleader
  • What words describe a good or bad musician?
    have an ear for music, have a good ear, maestro, tone deaf

    • 4.2.3.5 Musical instrument

    Use this domain for words referring to musical instruments and people who play a particular instrument.

    OMC Codes: 
    534 Musical Instruments
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6L Musical Instruments
  • What is the general term for musical instrument?
    musical instrument, band instrument
  • What are the types of instruments that have strings that you pluck?
    stringed instrument, strings, piano, harp, guitar, banjo, violin, fiddle, viola, cello, bass fiddle
  • What are the types of instruments that you hit?
    percussion instruments, drum, snare drum, bass drum, tympani, cymbal, bell, xylophone, marimba, rattle, castanet, bangle, jingle
  • What are the types of instruments that you blow into?
    wind instruments, winds, reeds, organ, flute, clarinet, oboe, brass instruments, horn, trumpet, cornet, bugle, trombone, French horn, baritone horn, tuba, harmonica, bagpipes, pipe
  • What words refer to playing a musical instrument?
    play, pluck, fiddle, blast, beat
  • What words refer to a person who plays a musical instrument?
    instrumentalist, player, pianist, violinist, drummer, trumpeter, flutist
  • What words describe the sound made by a musical instrument?
    blast (of a trumpet), blare, crash (of a cymbal), timbre,
  • What words refer to the parts of musical instruments?
    mouthpiece, bell, key, keyboard, drumstick, reed, bow, string, fret, pick, organ pipe

    • 4.2.4 Dance

    Use this domain for words related to dancing.

    OMC Codes: 
    535 Dancing
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    15F' Dance
  • What words refer to dancing?
    dance,
  • What are the types of dances?
    barn dance, folk dance, square dance, ballet, waltz, tap-dancing,
  • What are the parts of a dance?
    dance step, swing, lead, follow
  • What words refer to the people who dance?
    dancer, dance partner, chorus line, dance team
  • Where are dances held?
    dance hall, dance floor

    • 4.2.5 Drama

    Use this domain for words related to drama.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.9.4 Movie
    OMC Codes: 
    536 Drama
    545 Musical and Theatrical Productions
  • What words refer to a type of drama?
    drama, play, skit, comedy, tragedy, musical, melodrama, parody, suspense, film, movie, cinema, show,
  • What words refer to acting in a drama?
    act, enact, reenact, go on stage,
  • What words refer to performing as a particular character?
    play a part, portray, role, part,
  • What words refer to the people who act?
    actor, actress, star, performer, extra, director, stagehand
  • What words refer to the most important actor or actress?
    star, co-star, star in, play the lead,
  • What words refer to all the actors?
    cast,
  • What words indicate that a drama has a particular actor in it?
    star (v), feature, with, be in, appear in,
  • What words refer to a person who writes plays?
    playwright, play writer, dramatist
  • What are the parts of a drama?
    performance, act, scene, intermission, curtain call
  • What words refer to a place where a drama is performed?
    theater, cinema, stage, set, on location
  • What words refer to the things used in a drama?
    prop, scenery, backdrop, curtain
  • What words refer to acting with too much emotion?
    overact, ham it up,

    • 4.2.6 Entertainment, recreation

    Use this domain for words related to entertainment and recreation.

    OMC Codes: 
    540 Commercialized Entertainment
    520 Recreation
    517 Leisure Time Activities
    523 Hobbies
    529 Recreational Facilities
    541 Spectacles
    543 Exhibitions
    546 Motion Picture Industry
    547 Night Clubs and Cabarets
    548 Illegal Entertainment
    Organized Vice
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    50 Contests and Play
  • What general words refer to things people do for fun?
    recreational activity, amusement, competition, recreation, leisure, play, hobby, distraction, diversion, entertainment, frolic, fun, merriment, pastime, revelry, romp, shindig

    • 4.2.6.1 Game

    Use this domain for words referring to games. Some languages do not make a distinction between "Games" and "Sports."

    OMC Codes: 
    524 Games
  • What words refer to a game?
    game
  • What types of games are there?
    card game, gambling game, board game
  • What are the names of specific board games?
    bingo, blackjack, bridge, cards, checkers, chess, charades, craps, dice, dominoes, gin, hearts, jacks, lotto, mahjongg, marbles, Monopoly, Parcheesi, poker, roulette, solitaire,
  • What are the names of specific children's games?
    catch, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, leapfrog, mumblety-peg, tag,
  • What are the parts of games?
    piece, game piece, playing piece, die, dice, card, pack of cards, board
  • What words refer to playing a game?
    play,
  • What words refer to the people who play games?
    player, contestant, team members, captain, star
  • What words refer to play against someone?
    play against, be against, versus,
  • What words refer to the people you play against?
    opponent, opposition, rival,

    • 4.2.6.1.1 Card game

    Use this domain for words related to a particular game. The example words are from the card games. If you do not play card games in your culture, you can rename this domain and use it for one of your games. Add other domains for each of your games.

  • What is the game called?
    card game, poker,
  • What is one game called?
    hand
  • What is a group of games called?
    game
  • What is a player called?
    player,
  • What is each side called?
    partners,
  • What events make up the game?
    shuffle cards, deal cards, play, lead, follow suit, trump, call, take a trick,
  • What equipment is used to play the game?
    card, deck, suit, heart, diamond, club, hand, trick, spade, kitty,

    • 4.2.6.1.2 Chess

    Use this domain for words related to a particular game. The example words are from the game of chess. If you do not play chess in your culture, you can rename this domain and use it for one of your games. Add other domains for each of your games.

  • What is the game called?
    chess, chess game
  • What is one game called?
    chess match
  • What is a group of games called?
    chess tournament
  • What is a player called?
    chess player, grand master
  • What is each side called?
    white, black
  • What events make up the game?
    opening move, opening, move, queen to king's knight 4, advance, castle, capture, take, lose a piece, check, checkmate, concede
  • What equipment is used to play the game?
    chess board, square, white square, black square, chess piece, king, queen, rook, knight/horse, bishop, pawn

    • 4.2.6.2 Sports

    Use this domain for words related to sports.

    OMC Codes: 
    526 Athletic Sports
    542 Commercialized Sports
  • What words refer to sports?
    sport, sports, organized sports, athletics, pro sports, amateur sports
  • What words refer to specific sports?
    football, soccer, basketball, tennis, track, track and field, ping pong, badminton, baseball, hockey, ice hockey, boxing, wrestling, running, cricket, golf, gymnastics, race,
  • What words refer to a sports event?
    sports event, sporting event, game, match, bout
  • What words refer to a group of sports events?
    series, Olympics, tournament, tourney, meet, double-header, triple-header, season
  • What are the parts of a sports events?
    starting bell/buzzer, first quarter, second quarter, first half, half time, final bell/buzzer
  • What is a person called who participates in sports?
    athlete, player, starting line up, substitute, bench, coach, captain, referee, trainer, professional, amateur
  • What is a group of players called?
    team, club
  • What is a group of teams called?
    league, conference, association
  • What is the leader of a team called?
    coach, to coach a team, call time out, captain, to captain a team
  • What is the staff of a team called?
    assistant coach, trainer, recruiter
  • What words describe a player?
    athletic, acrobatic, competitive, star,
  • What do athletes do?
    play, compete, competition, struggle, engage in a sport/contest, participate, exercise, physical exercise, train, training, calisthenics, warm up, workout, break the rules, pull ahead
  • What words refer to the goal of a sport?
    goal, score,
  • What words are used of the outcome of a game?
    win, lose, tie, defeat, become champion, win the prize, finish the race, finish well, winner, loser
  • What are the winners and losers called?
    winner, champion, loser, first place winner, second place, runner up, second runner up
  • What awards are given to the winner?
    prize, cup, trophy, wreath, flowers, medal, gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal, blue ribbon, prize money, champion's belt, applause, cheers, plaudits, kudos, fame
  • What equipment is used in sports?
    uniform, ball, clock, scoreboard
  • What is the place called where sports are played?
    playing field, track, court, arena, stadium, gym, gymnasium
  • What are the parts of the playing field?
    court, line, lane, out of bounds, goal, finish line
  • What is the person called who enforces the rules?
    referee, to referee, referee's whistle, umpire, to umpire, official, commissioner, timekeeper, to keep time, call time, stop play, to rule
  • What is a person called who watches sports?
    fan, crowd, cheerleaders, pep club
  • What do fans do?
    root, yell, cheer, shout encouragement, support their team, boo the referee
  • What is a person called who comments on sports?
    commentator, announcer, sportscaster, reporter

    • 4.2.6.2.1 Football, soccer

    Use this domain for words related to a particular sport. The example words are from the sport of football (also called soccer). If you do not play football in your culture, you can rename this domain and use it for one of your sports. Add other domains for each of your sports.

  • What is the sport called?
    football, soccer,
  • What words refer to a game?
    match
  • What are the parts of a game?
    half,
  • What is a person called who participates in the game?
    forward, fullback, goalie, guard, halfback, striker, sweeper, wing,
  • What is a group of players called?
    team
  • What is a group of teams called?
    league,
  • What is the leader of a team called?
    coach, to coach a team, captain, to captain a team
  • What is the staff of a team called?
    coach, referee,
  • What do the players do?
    pass, score,
  • What equipment is used in the game?
    net, ball,
  • What is the place called where the game is played?
    field,
  • What are the parts of a playing area?
    line, out of bounds,

    • 4.2.6.2.2 Basketball

    Use this domain for words related to a particular sport. The example words are from the sport of basketball. If you do not play basketball in your culture, you can rename this domain and use it for one of your sports. Add other domains for each of your sports.

  • What is the sport called?
    basketball, b-ball
  • What words refer to a game?
    basketball game, game
  • What are the types of games?
    half-court, full-court, pick up game
  • What are the parts of a game?
    tip off, first quarter, second quarter, first half, half time, buzzer
  • What is a person called who participates in the game?
    basketball player, star, center, forward, guard, substitute, bench
  • What is a group of players called?
    basketball team
  • What is a group of teams called?
    league, conference, association, National Basketball Association
  • What is the leader of a team called?
    coach, to coach a team, captain, to captain a team
  • What is the staff of a team called?
    assistant coach, trainer, recruiter, referee, timekeeper
  • What do the players do?
    play basketball, shoot, shoot a free throw, score a basket, three point play, assist, block a shot, dribble, pass the ball, catch, screen, set up a play, run a play, jump, rebound, hit the boards, tip in, stuff, double dribble, walk, step out of bounds, throw out of bounds, foul, technical foul, charge, steal the ball, fast break, guard, play defense, play offense, substitute, huddle up, throw the ball in
  • What equipment is used in the game?
    basketball, hoop, net, backboard, uniform, basketball shoes, referee's whistle, clock, scoreboard, bench
  • What is the place called where the game is played?
    basketball court, arena, gym, gymnasium
  • What are the parts of a playing area?
    court, line, out of bounds, key, free throw line, jump circle

    • 4.2.6.3 Exercise

    Use this domain for words related to exercise.

  • What words refer to doing something in order to stay healthy and become stronger?
    exercise, get exercise, train, work out, keep fit
  • What words refer to activities people do for exercise?
    gymnastics, aerobics, training, exercise (n)

    • 4.2.6.4 Gambling

    Use this domain for words related to gambling.

    OMC Codes: 
    525 Gambling
  • What words refer to gambling?
    gamble, gambling, gaming, bet, place a bet, wager
  • What types of gambling games are there?
    cards, dice, lottery, roulette
  • What other kinds of events do people typically bet on?
    cockfight, horse race
  • What words refer to a person who gambles?
    gambler, bookie
  • What words refer to a person's chances of winning?
    odds,

    • 4.2.7 Play, fun

    Use this domain for words related to playing and fun.

  • What words are used of play?
    play, have fun, goof off, frolic, amuse oneself/others, amusement, play games, caper, gambol, disport
  • What words refer to the things people play with?
    toy, doll, plaything, bauble, puzzle, kite, ball, top, trifle, trinket, stilts, jump rope,
  • What words refer to people who play?
    player, playmate
  • What words describe a person who plays?
    playful, frolicsome, mischievous, frisky, prankish, jolly, rollicking
  • Where do people play?
    playground

    • 4.2.8 Humor

    Use this domain for words related to humor.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.6.4 Laugh
    3.5.1.8.3 Mock
    OMC Codes: 
    522 Humor
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25L Laugh, Cry, Groan x
  • What words refer to humor in general?
    humor, comedy, comic relief, fun, caprice, fooling, kidding, joshing, wittiness, salt, whim, drollery, jocularity, levity, mirth
  • What words refer to a person's sense of humor (ability to joke)?
    sense of humor, (have a real) funny bone, (be/have a great) wit
  • What words refer to something said humorously?
    joke, pun, play on words, word play, riddle, jest, gag, wisecrack, witticism, pleasantry, banter, badinage, retort, repartee, riposte, ridicule, quip, one-liner, flash of wit, comeback, gag, crack
  • What words refer to something done humorously?
    joke, play a joke on, prank, play a prank on, farce, clowning, fooling around, tomfoolery, buffoonery, horseplay, monkey business
  • What words describe something that is humorous?
    humorous, funny, hilarious, hysterical, silly, comical, ludicrous, amusing, comic, absurd, facetious, droll, laughable, zany,
  • What is a person called who jokes?
    comedian, humorist, joker, jokester, wit, wag, comic, clown, jester, buffoon, punster, fool, practical joker, gagman, wisecracker
  • What words are used of joking?
    to joke, be witty, jest, crack a joke, make pun, to pun, make fun of, make sport of, retort, banter, kid, wisecrack, come back at, josh, clown
  • What words describe a person's sense of humor?
    witty, comic, jocular, droll, smart, dry wit, slapstick, fun, facetious, waggish, comical, salty
  • What words describe a person who jokes?
    witty, quick-witted, smart, jocular, droll, funny, waggish, facetious, whimsical, humorous, comic
  • What words indicate the joking manner in which a person acts or speaks?
    humorously, jokingly, jestingly, in jest, in sport, in play, in fun, not seriously

    • 4.2.8.1 Serious

    Use this domain for words related to being serious--not laughing or joking.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25L Laugh, Cry, Groan x
  • What words refer to being serious?
    serious, earnest, sober, solemn, somber, stodgy,

    • 4.2.9 Holiday

    Use this domain for words related to a holiday.

  • What words refer to a holiday?
    holiday, vacation, trip, honeymoon
  • What words refer to going on a holiday?
    go on a holiday, take a holiday, go on vacation, take a vacation, go on a trip
  • What words refer to a time when you can be away from work or school?
    holiday, vacation, break, leave, day off
  • What words refer to a person who is on holiday?
    holidaymaker, vacationer, tourist
  • What words refer to time when you don't have to work?
    free time, spare time, time off, time out, leisure time,

    • 4.2.9.1 Free time

    Use this domain for words related to a holiday.

  • What words refer to time when you don't have to work?
    free time, spare time, time off, time out, leisure time,

    • 4.3 Behavior

    Use this domain for general words referring to a person's behavior.

    OMC Codes: 
    577 Ethics
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    41 Behavior and Related States
    41A Behavior, Conduct
    88 Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior
  • What words refer to behaving in a particular way?
    behave, act, conduct yourself, be, acquit yourself, bear, comport, deal, deport, devote, lead, live, occupy, order your steps, practice,
  • What words refer to the way a person behaves?
    behavior, antics, conduct, character, manner, demeanor, characteristic, air, bearing, behavior, carriage, comportment, course, custom, dealing, deportment, doings, etiquette, existence, life, manners, mien, trait, way of life, the way someone acts,

    • 4.3.1 Good, moral

    Use this domain for words related to being good or moral in behavior.

    Related domains: 
    8.3.7 Good
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88B Just, Righteous
    88C Holy, Pure
    41C Particular Patterns of Behavior
  • What words describe someone who is good?
    good, moral, blameless, decent, ethical, excellent, fine, high-minded, holy, honorable, just, pure, righteous, saintly, sanctified, upstanding, virtuous, worthy,
  • What words refer to a good person?
    saint,
  • What words refer to the quality of being good?
    goodness, morality, holiness, purity, righteousness, sanctification, virtue,
  • What words refer to doing something good?
    do good, be good, behave, behave yourself, be on your best behavior,
  • What words refer to something someone does that is good?
    good deed, good behavior,
  • What words describe something someone does that is good?
    good, ethical, fine, right, righteous, worthy,
  • What words refer to becoming good?
    improve, develop, reform,

    • 4.3.1.1 Bad, immoral

    Use this domain for words related to being bad or immoral in behavior, and for words describing a bad person.

    Related domains: 
    8.3.7.1 Bad
    OMC Codes: 
    680 Offenses and Sanctions
    682 Offenses against Life
    683 Offenses against the Person
    684 Sex and Marital Offenses
    685 Property Offenses
    686 Nonfulfillment of Obligations
    687 Offenses against the State
    688 Religious Offenses
    689 Social Offenses
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88H' Impurity
    88T Act Shamefully
    88I' Licentiousness, Perversion
    88L' Sin, Wrongdoing, Guilt
  • What words describe someone who is bad?
    bad, base, carnal, corrupt, dangerous, decadent, degenerate, depraved, dishonorable, evil, felonious, foul, heinous, immoral, improper, impure, iniquitous, low-minded, low, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, no good, reprobate (adj), sinful, sinister, terrible, unethical, unholy, unjust, unrighteous, vile, villainous, wicked,
  • What words describe someone who is very bad?
    twisted, sick, perverted, depraved, terrible,
  • What words refer to a bad person?
    miscreant, reprobate (n), scoundrel, sinner, black sheep, villain, knave,
  • What words refer to someone who is very bad?
    monster, pervert,
  • What words refer to doing something bad?
    sin (v), behave badly, misbehave, do wrong, be up to something, get into, indulge in, commit, stoop
  • What words refer to the quality of being bad?
    sinfulness, depravity, evil (n), iniquity,
  • What words refer to something someone does that is bad?
    sin (n), misbehavior,
  • What words describe something someone does that is bad?
    bad, blameworthy, sinful, wrong,
  • What words describe someone who plans to do something bad?
    calculating, scheming,
  • What words describe a place where bad people often go?
    seedy, sleazy, haunt, den of iniquity,
  • What words refer to someone becoming bad?
    go bad, go wrong, turn to crime, fall, fall into sin,
  • What words refer to one person causing another person to be bad?
    tempt, corrupt, pervert, turn,

    • 4.3.1.2 Meet a standard

    Use this domain for words related to meeting a standard.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88D Perfect, Perfection
    88F Modesty, Propriety
  • What words refer to being acceptable?
    meet a standard, be acceptable, be perfect, be normal
  • What words refer to acceptable behavior?
    act acceptably, satisfactorily, normal, pleasingly, be polite, dignity,
  • What words describe the behavior of someone who acts acceptably?
    acceptable, satisfactory, normal, pleasing, polite, well mannered

    • 4.3.1.2.1 Below standard

    Use this domain for words related to behaving below a standard.

  • What words refer to being unacceptable?
    be below the standard, be unacceptable, be imperfect, be abnormal, miss the mark, fail, fail to make the grade, fail to live up to expectations, not live up to
  • What words refer to unacceptable behavior?
    act unacceptably, dissatisfactory, abnormal, unpleasing, unpleasantly, be impolite, ill mannered
  • What words describe the behavior of someone who acts unacceptably?
    unacceptable, dissatisfactory, abnormal, unpleasing, impolite, ill mannered, rude

    • 4.3.1.3 Mature in behavior

    Use this domain for words related to acting maturely--to act like an adult rather than a child.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88M Mature Behavior
  • What words describe someone who is mature?
    mature, adult (adj), responsible,
  • What words refer to doing something maturely?
    be mature, act like an adult, act your age,
  • What words refer to the quality of being mature?
    maturity,
  • What words refer to something someone does that is mature?
    mature,
  • What words describe something someone does that is mature?
    maturely,
  • What words refer to becoming mature?
    mature (v), grow up,

    • 4.3.1.3.1 Immature in behavior

    Use this domain for words related to behaving in an immature way--for either a child or an adult to act like a child.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88M Mature Behavior
  • What words describe someone who is immature?
    immature, babyish, boyish, callow, childlike, childish, girlish, inexperienced, infantile, irresponsible, naive, puerile, rookie, sophomoric, spoiled,
  • What words refer to an immature person?
    baby,
  • What words refer to doing something immature?
    be immature, act like a child
  • What words refer to the quality of being immature?
    immaturity,
  • What words describe something someone does that is immature?
    immature, childish, infantile, juvenile, puerile, silly,
  • What words describe a bad child?
    naughty, badly-behaved, mischievous, spoiled,
  • What words refer to a bad child?
    brat, nuisance, pest, bully,

    • 4.3.1.3.2 Sensible

    Use this domain for words related to being sensible--to think about what you do.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88L Sensible Behavior, Senseless Behavior
  • What words describe someone who is sensible?
    sensible, thoughtful, astute, calculating, cautious, circumspect, discreet, discriminating, foresighted, judicious, logical, practical, pragmatic, prudent, rational, realistic, reasonable, sagacious, sane, sensible, sensibly, sensitive, sound, thoughtful, wholesome

    • 4.3.1.4 Reputation

    Use this domain for words related to having a good reputation--when most people think well of someone because he does good things and doesn't do bad things.

  • What words refer to a person's reputation?
    reputation, standing, image, name, character,
  • What words describe someone who has a good reputation?
    reputable, of repute, prestigious,
  • What words refer to having a good reputation?
    have a good reputation, have a reputation for, be of good repute, be well thought of, have a good name,
  • What words refer to a good reputation?
    good reputation, prestige, stature,
  • What words refer to hurting someone's reputation?
    harm someone's reputation, damage someone's reputation, give someone a bad name, bring someone into disrepute, discredit, bring discredit on,
  • What words refer to having a bad reputation?
    have a bad reputation, be of evil repute, be poorly thought of, have a bad name

    • 4.3.1.5 Patient

    Use this domain for words related to being patient--if you are patient, you don't get angry or do anything bad even though something bad happens to you for a long time.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25O Patience, Endurance, Perseverance
  • What words describe someone who is patient?
    patient, persevering, accommodating,
  • What words refer to being patient?
    be patient, bear, endure, persevere, patiently, persist, plod, plug, tolerate,
  • What words refer to the quality of being patient?
    patience, constancy, endurance, steadfastness,
  • What words describe a situation that a person can endure?
    bearable, endurable, tolerable,

    • 4.3.1.5.1 Impatient

    Use this domain for words related to being impatient--if you are impatient, you get angry or do something bad when something bad happens to you for a long time.

  • What words describe someone who is impatient?
    impatient, intolerant,
  • What words refer to being impatient?
    wait impatiently, lose your patience, can't wait
  • What words refer to the quality of being impatient?
    impatience, intolerance,
  • What words describe a situation that makes a person feel impatient?
    intolerable,

    • 4.3.1.5.2 Bad-tempered

    Use this domain for words related to being bad-tempered--to behave in an angry, unfriendly way.

  • What words describe a person who is often bad-tempered?
    bad-tempered, grumpy, grouchy, disagreeable, cantankerous, uptight,
  • What words refer to being bad-tempered for a short time?
    be in a bad mood, be in a huff, be in one of his bad moods, got out of bed on the wrong side, got out on the wrong side of the bed
  • What words describe someone who refuses to talk because they are angry?
    sullen, surly, sulky, sulk, be in a sulk, give someone the silent treatment,
  • What words describe someone who is easily annoyed by unimportant things?
    irritable, crotchety, petulant, fractious,
  • What words describe someone who gets angry easily?
    short-tempered, quick-tempered, have a short fuse, temper,
  • What words refer to someone who is bad-tempered?
    grouch,

    • 4.3.2 Admire someone

    Use this domain for words related to admiring someone--to feel good about someone because you think that he is a good person.

  • What words refer to admiring a person?
    admire, be an admirer of, accept, approve of, esteem (v), hold in someone in high esteem, look up to, have a high opinion of, hold someone in high regard, respect, respectful, think highly of, think well of, hold in honor,
  • What words refer to admiring someone very much?
    idolize, revere, worship, put someone on a pedestal, hero-worship,
  • What words refer to what someone thinks of a person, either good or bad?
    estimation, opinion, regard,
  • What words refer to the thought or feeling that someone is good?
    admiration, adulation, esteem (n), respect,
  • What words refer to a person who is admired?
    idol, hero, heroine,
  • What words describe someone who is admired?
    admirable, estimable, honorable, idolized,

    • 4.3.2.1 Despise someone

    Use this domain for words related to despising someone--to feel bad about someone because you think they are not as good as you.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88Y Despise, Scorn, Contempt
  • What words refer to despising someone?
    despise, disdain, disregard, rebuff, reject, repudiate, scoff, scorn, shun, slight, sneer at, snub, spurn, be contemptuous of, hold in contempt, feel contempt for, feel superior, think someone is worthless, think poorly of, feel superior to, look down on, spit on, be cliquish, turn up your nose at,
  • What words describe someone who despises someone?
    contemptuous, disdainful, disrespectful, haughty, scornful, snobbish, superior,
  • What words refer to a person who despises someone?
    scoffer,
  • What words refer to the feeling of despising someone?
    contempt, disdain, disregard, disrespect, hate, irreverence,
  • What words refer to something you do that shows you despise someone?
    rebuff (n), slight (n), snub (n),
  • What words describe something someone does to show they despise someone?
    withering (look), derisive (laugh),
  • What words describe someone who is despised?
    contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised,

    • 4.3.2.2 Humble

    Use this domain for words related to being humble--to not think that you are better than other people, or to not think that you are better than you really are, and to not talk or act as if you were better than other people.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88F Modesty, Propriety
    88G Humility
  • What words describe someone who is humble?
    humble, lowly, meek, mild, modest, self-deprecating, self-effacing, simple, timid, timorous, unassuming, unpretentious
  • What words refer to doing something humble?
    be humble, humbly, condescend,
  • What words refer to the quality of being humble?
    humility, humbleness, condescension, debasement, lowliness, modesty, self-abasement, self-deprecation, timidity,
  • What words describe something someone does that is humble?
    humble,
  • What words refer to becoming humble?
    humble yourself,
  • What words refer to one person causing another to be humble?
    to humble someone, humiliate, debase,
  • What words refer to being too humble?
    put yourself down, run yourself down, sell yourself short, underestimate yourself,

    • 4.3.2.3 Proud

    Use this domain for words referring to being proud--to think that something or someone is very good and to feel very good about them, especially to think and feel very good about yourself--to think that you are better than others, to think that you are better than you really are, or to talk and act as if you were better than other people.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.1.7.3 Boast
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88A' Arrogance, Haughtiness, Pride
  • What words refer to being proud of something or someone?
    be proud of, be pleased with, be delighted with, be thrilled with, take pride in, pride yourself on,
  • What words refer to being proud of yourself?
    be proud of yourself, be full of yourself, fancy yourself, let something go to your head,
  • What words refer to being satisfied with yourself?
    self-satisfied, smug, pleased with yourself, complacent,
  • What words refer to thinking you are more important than you really are?
    self-important, pompous, jumped up, have delusions of grandeur, get too big for your boots/britches,
  • What words refer to thinking you are better than other people?
    snobbish, snobby, haughty, snooty, snotty, superior, stuck-up, class-conscious,
  • What words describe someone who is proud?
    proud, aloof, arrogant, bigheaded, boastful, brash, conceited, contemptuous, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, hoity-toity, imperious, inflated, lofty, ostentatious, pretentious, prideful, proud hearted, puffed up, self-aggrandizing, self-confident, uppity, vain,
  • What words refer to behaving in a proud way toward other people?
    look down on, look down your nose at, be beneath you, think you're too good for,
  • What words refer to the quality of being proud?
    pride, sense of achievement, aloofness, arrogance, audacity, conceit, egotism, flashiness, haughtiness, hauteur, loftiness, ostentation, pretension, self-importance, self-respect, self-will, showiness, snobbery, snobbishness, vanity,
  • What words refer to a proud person?
    snob, prig,
  • What words refer to something or someone you are proud of?
    be someone's pride and joy, be the pride of, be a credit to,
  • What words refer to something making someone proud?
    go to your head,
  • What words refer to stopping someone from behaving proudly by criticizing them?
    put someone in their place, wipe the smile off someone's face, cut someone down to size,

    • 4.3.2.4 Show off

    Use this domain for words referring to showing off--to behave in a way that attracts people's attention because you want them to admire you.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.1.7.3 Boast
  • What words refer to showing off?
    show off, flash your money around, put on airs, vaunt yourself,
  • What words refer to someone who shows off?
    show-off, poseur, exhibitionist, flamboyant, dramatic,
  • What words describe someone who shows off?
    showy, ostentatious, ostentatiously, flashy, pretentious, pretentiously, proudly,
  • What words refer to the quality of showing off?
    showiness, flashiness, ostentation,

    • 4.3.3 Love

    Use this domain for words related to loving someone--to feel good about someone, want good things to happen to them, and want to do good things for them.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25C Love, Affection, Compassion
  • What words refer to loving someone?
    love (v), like, attached, care about, cherish, be close, feel friendly toward, favor, hold in favor, feel favorable toward, be fond of, wish someone well, hope things turn out well for someone, be partial to, be enshrined in your heart,
  • What words refer to loving someone very much?
    adore, worship, be devoted to, dote on, think the world of, mean the world to,
  • What words refer to the feeling of love?
    love (n), adoration, affection, compassion, concern, devotion, fondness, goodwill, attachment, kindness, solicitude, sympathy,
  • What words describe someone who loves?
    loving, affectionate, caring, compassionate, concerned, devoted, doting, fond, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, tender-hearted, warm, warmhearted,
  • What words refer to someone who loves?
    lover, well-wishers,
  • What words describe someone who is loved?
    beloved, dear
  • What words refer to someone you love?
    loved ones, darling, pet, the one you love,
  • What words refer to something someone does that is loving?
    act of love, act of kindness, favor,
  • What words describe someone who does not love?
    unloving, uncaring,
  • What words describe someone who is not loved?
    unloved, unlovable,

    • 4.3.3.1 Hate, ill will

    Use this domain for words referring to hating someone--to want something bad to happen to someone, or to want to do something bad to someone.

    Related domains: 
    3.4.2.1.2 Hate, detest
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88Z Hate, Hateful
  • What words refer to hating someone?
    hate, wish evil on, wish one ill, want revenge, have it in for,
  • What words refer to the wish that something bad would happen to someone?
    hate, hatred, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, spite,
  • What words describe a person who hates?
    hateful, hating, antagonistic, hostile, malicious, spiteful,
  • What words describe a person who is hated?
    hated,

    • 4.3.3.2 Not care

    Use this domain for words related to not caring about someone.

  • What words describe someone who is uncaring?
    uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, apathetic, indifferent, unmoved, blasé,
  • What words refer to being uncaring?
    don't care, not give a damn, couldn't care less, be past caring, shrug off,
  • What words refer to the quality of being uncaring?
    unconcern,
  • What words describe something someone does when they don't care?
    casual, offhand, nonchalant, gaily,
  • What do people say when they don't care?
    for all I care, who cares?, so what?, not my problem, not my concern, that's your problem, that's your lookout, tough!
  • What do people say when they don't care what happens, because they would be happy with whatever happens?
    not mind, not be fussy, it doesn't matter to me, it doesn't bother me, I'm easy, suit yourself, have no objection,

    • 4.3.3.3 Abandon

    Use this domain for words related to abandoning someone or something--to leave and not return to them.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.6.3 Alone
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35H Desert, Forsake
  • What words refer to abandoning something?
    abandon, dump, jettison, leave, leave behind,
  • What words refer to the act of abandoning something?
    abandonment, dereliction, desertion,
  • What words refer to something that has been abandoned?
    derelict,
  • What words refer to abandoning a place?
    leave, leave (somewhere) never to return,
  • What words refer to a place that has been abandoned?
    ghost town, abandoned field, abandoned homestead,
  • What words refer to abandoning someone?
    desert, disown, divorce, dump, forsake, leave alone, maroon,
  • What words refer to someone who has been abandoned?
    abandoned child, waif, street kid,
  • What words describe something that has been abandoned?
    abandoned, forsaken, derelict, uncared-for,

    • 4.3.4 Do good to

    Use this domain for words referring to doing good to someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88I Kindness, Harshness
    35 Help, Care For
  • What words refer to doing good to someone?
    do good to, be good to, be kind to, benefit (v), treat well, be merciful to, bless, care for,
  • What words describe a person who does good to other people?
    accommodating, benevolent, benign, caring, charitable, chivalrous, considerate, courteous, gentle, gracious, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, nice, obliging, thoughtful,
  • What words refer to something good that someone does for another person?
    kindness, benefit (n), blessing, courtesy, charity,
  • What words refer to the character quality of doing good?
    consideration, courtesy, graciousness, kindness, kindliness, thoughtfulness

    • 4.3.4.1 Do evil to

    Use this domain for words related to doing evil to someone.

    Related domains: 
    2.5.3 Injure
    7.9.1 Damage
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88P Treat Badly
  • What words refer to doing evil to someone?
    do evil to, harm, hurt, offend, offense, hurt someone's feelings, damage, impair, hit hard, work against, be a serious blow to, be detrimental to, at the expense of, to the detriment of
  • What words refer to doing evil to yourself?
    harm yourself, cut your own throat, be your own worst enemy, shoot yourself in the foot, rebound on, come back to haunt you,
  • What words describe something that harms someone?
    harmful, damaging, be bad for,
  • What words describe something that harms your health?
    harmful, poisonous, toxic, noxious,
  • What words describe something that does not harm anything?
    harmless, innocuous, do no harm,

    • 4.3.4.2 Help

    Use this domain for words related to helping someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35A Help
  • What words refer to helping someone?
    help, be of help, help out, with someone's help, aid (v), come to someone's aid, assist, be of assistance, support, lend a hand, do your bit, rally round
  • What words refer to what is done to help?
    help (n), assistance, support (n), aid (n),
  • What is a person called who helps another?
    helper, aide, accomplice, assistant,
  • What words describe a person who helps another?
    helpful, accommodating, cooperative, obliging,

    • 4.3.4.2.1 Hinder

    Use this domain for words related to hindering someone.

  • What words refer to opposing someone?
    hinder, hinder someone from, oppose, opposition, stand in opposition to, be antagonistic

    • 4.3.4.3 Cooperate with

    Use this domain for words related to cooperating with someone to do something.

  • What words refer to working together with someone to do something?
    cooperate with, work together, side-by-side, jointly, collaborate, partnership, alliance, join together, team up, help each other
  • What words describe something that people do together?
    joint,

    • 4.3.4.3.1 Compete with

    Use this domain for words related to competing with someone.

  • What words refer to competing with someone?
    compete with, try to beat, gain an advantage over, oppose, engage, fight, struggle, vie,
  • What words refer to a competition?
    competition, contest, championship, tournament, conflict, rivalry,
  • What words refer to a person that you compete against?
    competitor, opposition, rival,

    • 4.3.4.4 Altruistic, selfless

    Use this domain for words describing a person who acts in an altruistic, selfless manner--to act out of concern for the welfare of others without concern for your own welfare.

  • What words describe someone who is selfless?
    altruistic, selfless, unselfish, thinks of others, self-sacrificing, benevolent, Good Samaritan

    • 4.3.4.4.1 Selfish

    Use this domain for words related to being selfish.

  • What words describe someone who is selfish?
    self-centered, selfish,
  • What words refer to being selfish?
    be selfish, think of nobody but yourself, self-centered, egocentric, look out for yourself, look out for number one
  • What words refer to the quality of being selfish?
    selfishness,

    • 4.3.4.4.2 Use a person

    Use this domain for words related to using someone for your own purpose or gain without helping them.

  • What words refer to using a person?
    use someone, take advantage of, exploit, take liberties, manipulate, wrap/twist someone around your little finger,

    • 4.3.4.5 Share with

    Use this domain for words related to sharing with other people.

    Related domains: 
    6.8.3 Share wealth
  • What words refer to sharing with others?
    share, share with, contribute toward, give to, be generous
  • What words refer to two or more people doing something, first one person doing it, then another person doing it?
    take turns, take it in turns, share, alternate,

    • 4.3.4.5.1 Provide for, support

    Use this domain for words referring to providing someone with what they need to live each day, such as providing for an elderly parent who can no longer earn what they need.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35C Provide For, Support
  • What words refer to providing someone with what they need?
    provide for, support, furnish, supply
  • What words refer to needing someone to provide for you?
    depend on, dependent, rely on
  • What words refer to a person who provides?
    provider, means of support, supplier
  • What words refer to what is provided?
    provisions, support (n), supply (n)

    • 4.3.4.5.2 Care for

    Use this domain for words related to caring for someone--to do something good for someone, because they need something and cannot do it.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35D Care For, Take Care Of
  • What words refer to caring for someone?
    care for, take care of, meet someone's needs
  • What is a person called who takes care of another?
    caregiver

    • 4.3.4.5.3 Entrust to the care of

    Use this domain for words related to entrusting something to the care of someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35E Entrust To the Care Of
  • What words refer to giving something to someone for him to take care of?
    entrust to the care of, assign, commend, commit, trust with

    • 4.3.4.6 Meddle

    Use this domain for words referring to meddling--involving oneself in something that does not concern oneself, such as someone else's business or affairs, or a fight between other people.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88E' Being a Busybody
  • What words refer to meddling in someone's affairs?
    meddle, bother, butt in, eavesdrop, encroach, infringe, interfere, intervene, intrude, pry, snoop, tamper
  • What words refer to a person who meddles?
    busybody, eavesdropper, interloper, intruder, meddler, snoop

    • 4.3.4.6.1 Spoil

    Use this domain for words referring to spoiling something that is happening, such as an event, work, relationship, or feeling, by doing something that makes it less attractive, less enjoyable, or less effective--to do something bad to something that is happening, so that people can't do what they were doing or don't enjoy it as much.

    Related domains: 
    8.3.7.8 Decay
  • What words refer to spoiling the quality of something?
    spoil, impair, mar, detract from
  • What words refer to spoiling someone's work?
    spoil, mess up, undermine, sabotage, throw a wrench in the works, pour cold water on,
  • What words refer to spoiling a relationship?
    spoil, sour, poison,
  • What words refer to spoiling an event?
    spoil, mar, put a damper on, cast a shadow over,
  • What words refer to spoiling a person's reputation?
    spoil, damage, damaging, discredit, harm, tarnish, be tainted,
  • What words refer to completely spoiling something?
    ruin, destroy, wreck, screw up, spoil everything,
  • What words refer to someone who spoils people's enjoyment of an event?
    wet blanket, spoilsport, killjoy,
  • What words describe something that has not been spoiled?
    unspoiled, unblemished,

    • 4.3.4.7 Enter by force

    Use this domain for words related to entering a place, such as a house, by force.

  • What words refer to entering something by force?
    enter by force, break in, force your way in, forcible entry,

    • 4.3.4.8 Kidnap

    Use this domain for words related to kidnapping someone.

  • What words refer to kidnapping someone?
    kidnap, abduct, kidnap, nab, shanghai, snatch,
  • What words refer to the act of kidnapping someone?
    kidnapping, abduction,
  • What words refer to someone who kidnaps?
    kidnapper, abductor, snatcher

    • 4.3.4.9 Cruel

    Use this domain for words related to being cruel.

  • What words describe someone who is cruel?
    cruel, ruthless, heartless, sadistic, bloodthirsty
  • What words refer to the quality of being cruel?
    cruelty,

    • 4.3.5 Honest

    Use this domain for words related to being honest--words describing someone who does not cheat, steal, or break the law.

  • What words describe someone who is honest?
    honest, reputable, incorruptible, above suspicion,
  • What words refer to the quality of being honest?
    honesty, integrity,

    • 4.3.5.1 Dishonest

    Use this domain for words related to being dishonest.

    Related domains: 
    6.8.9 Dishonest financial practices
  • What words describe someone who does not tell the truth?
    dishonest, lying, devious, sly, untrustworthy, sneaky, unscrupulous, have no scruples, corrupt, crooked

    • 4.3.5.2 Faithful

    Use this domain for words related to being faithful--to continue to love and do good to someone so that they can always trust you.

  • What words describe someone who is faithful?
    faithful, loyal, devoted, staunch, true, unswerving,
  • What words refer to being faithful?
    stand by, stick by, be true to,
  • What words refer to the quality of being faithful?
    faithfulness, allegiance, devotion, fidelity, loyalty, solidarity,

    • 4.3.5.3 Reliable

    Use this domain for words related to being reliable--words describe a person who can be relied on to do what he is supposed to.

  • What words describe someone who is reliable?
    reliable, responsible, faithful, honest,
  • What words refer to a reliable person?
    man of his word,
  • What words refer to being reliable?
    keep your word, keep your promise
  • What words refer to the quality of being reliable?
    integrity,
  • What words refer to relying on someone to do something?
    rely on, depend on

    • 4.3.5.4 Unreliable

    Use this domain for words related to being unreliable.

  • What words describe a person who cannot be relied on to do what he should?
    be unreliable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, unfaithful, disloyal, treacherous, cheat on

    • 4.3.5.5 Deceive

    Use this domain for words related to deceiving someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88U Mislead, Lead Astray, Deceive
  • What words refer to acting in such a way that someone is led to believe something false?
    deceive, fool, take in, defraud, cheat, fleece, bilk, swindle, hustle, dupe, hoodwink, foist upon, palm off on, outwit, outmaneuver, finagle, slip one over on, put something over on, con, lay a trap for, lure, beguile, delude, trick, entrap, ensnare, pull the wool over someone's eyes, play a trick on, play a practical joke on, send on a fool's errand, make a fool of, mislead
  • What words refer to the act of deceiving someone?
    deceit, deception, fraud, delusion, cunning, illusion, treachery
  • What words refer to someone who deceives?
    deceiver, magician, conjuror
  • What words refer to someone who deceives in order to steal?
    con man, swindler, snake, cheat
  • What words refer to someone who pretends to be someone else?
    imposter, charlatan, fraud, fake, pretender, quack, wolf in sheep's clothing
  • What words describe someone who deceives?
    deceptive, fraudulent, cunning, treacherous

    • 4.3.5.6 Hypocrite

    Use this domain for words related to being a hypocrite.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88C' Hypocrisy, Pretense
  • What words refer to saying one thing but doing something else?
    be a hypocrite, act hypocritically, hypocrisy, pretend, pretense
  • What words refer to a person who says one thing but does something else?
    hypocrite, pretender, actor

    • 4.3.6 Self-controlled

    Use this domain for words referring to self-control--deciding not to do something that you want to do, because you think it would be bad to do it; or deciding to do something, because you know it is good.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88K Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control
  • What words describe someone who is self-controlled?
    self-controlled, ascetic, austere, careful, conscientious, controlled, disciplined, discreet, moderate, provident, prudent, puritanical, restrained, sober-minded, stoic, tempered, tolerant, unsparing,
  • What words refer to a self-controlled person?
    ascetic, conformist, moderate, puritan, stoic,
  • What words refer to being self-controlled?
    abstain, behave, behave yourself, constrain, contain yourself, control yourself, discipline yourself, forbear, forgo, restrain yourself, say no, tolerate,
  • What words refer to the quality of being self-controlled?
    self-control, abnegation, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, constraint, discipline, equanimity, forbearance, moderation, poise, reserve, restraint, self-denial, self-discipline, sobriety, stoicism, sufferance, temperance, tolerance, toleration,
  • What words refer to controlling your feelings?
    keep your temper, calm and collected, composed, composure, forbearing, unexcitable, long-suffering, poised, reserved, staid, steady, unexcited,
  • What words refer to controlling your eating?
    put a knife to your throat,
  • What words refer to controlling your desire to drink alcohol?
    stay sober, go on the wagon,
  • What words refer to controlling your desire to spend money?
    frugal, frugality, thrifty, thrift,

    • 4.3.6.1 Lack self-control

    Use this domain for words related to a lack of self-control.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88K Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control
    88G' Extravagant Living, Intemperate Living
  • What words describe a person who does not control himself?
    addicted, excessive, gluttonous, indulgent, intemperate, piggish, prodigal, riotous, self-indulgent, surfeit, unbridled, uncontrolled, unrestrained, voracious
  • What words refer to a person who does not control himself?
    addict, Epicurean, glutton, pig, prodigal,
  • What words refer to a lack of self-control?
    lack self-control, indulge, overdo, permit, do something to excess, lose control, get carried away, break down, give in to,
  • What words refer to the quality of lacking self-control?
    addiction, debauchery, dissipation, excess, excitability, extravagance, gluttony, indulgence, intemperance, leniency, overindulgence,

    • 4.3.6.2 Tidy

    Use this domain for words referring to being tidy in your habits, such as keeping your belongings neat and organized,.

    Related domains: 
    7.5 Arrange
    7.5.5 Organize
  • What words describe someone who is tidy?
    tidy, neat, orderly, organized, consistent, house-proud,
  • What words refer to making something tidy?
    tidy, tidy up, clean up, clear up, straighten, straighten up, get the place straight, put something straight, put something in order, put something away,
  • What words refer to the quality of being tidy?
    tidiness, neatness,
  • What words describe something that is tidy?
    tidy, immaculate, just so, neat, shipshape, smart, trim, well-kept

    • 4.3.6.3 Untidy

    Use this domain for words related to being untidy--to not keep your things tidy and orderly.

  • What words describe someone who is untidy?
    untidy, messy, slovenly, slob, disorderly
  • What words describe someone whose clothes and hair are untidy?
    untidy, scruffy, unkempt, disheveled, bedraggled
  • What words refer to making something untidy?
    make a mess, mess something up, clutter, ransack, leave something lying about,
  • What words refer to the quality of being untidy?
    untidiness, messiness, disorderliness,
  • What words refer to a place that is untidy?
    dump, pigsty
  • What words describe something that is untidy?
    untidy, messy, be a mess, bedraggled, careless, cluttered, disheveled, frowzy, rumpled, slatternly, slovenly, be all in a muddle,
  • What words refer to things that are scattered around a place and make it look untidy?
    mess, clutter

    • 4.3.6.4 Mistake

    Use this domain for words referring to mistakes--something bad that someone does by accident.

    Related domains: 
    3.6.5 Correct
  • What words refer to a mistake?
    mistake, error, slip, mix-up, slip-up, oversight, aberration,
  • What words refer to a mistake in writing or speaking?
    mistake, misprint, spelling mistake, slip of the tongue, error, typographical error, typo,
  • What words refer to a serious mistake in judgment or planning?
    mistake, miscalculation, misjudgment, error of judgment, be a bad move, blunder, bad tactics, muddle, confusion, mess something up, make a mess of something,
  • What words refer to an embarrassing mistake?
    put your foot in it, faux pas, gaffe, boo-boo, indiscretion,
  • What words refer to making a mistake?
    make a mistake, make an error, mistake something, go wrong, get something wrong, blunder, goof, goof up, slip up, misjudge, bungle,
  • What words describe something done by mistake?
    by mistake, mistaken, mistakenly, in error, erroneously,
  • What words refer to mistaking one thing or person for another?
    mistake something, confuse, mix someone up with, get something mixed up, muddle,
  • What words refer to causing someone to make a mistake?
    trip someone up, catch someone out,
  • What do you say when you make a mistake?
    oops,

    • 4.3.7 Polite

    Use this domain for words related to social refinement.

  • What words describe someone who is polite?
    polite, civil, courteous, diplomatic, discreet, elegant, graceful, refined, respectful, smooth, suave, tactful, well-mannered,
  • What words refer to being polite?
    have good manners,
  • What words refer to being very polite?
    correct, formal, stiff,
  • What words refer to the quality of being polite?
    politeness, etiquette, formality, manners, courtesy, tact,
  • What words describe a child who is polite?
    good, well-behaved, well-brought up

    • 4.3.7.1 Impolite

    Use this domain for words related to being impolite.

  • What words describe someone who is impolite?
    rude, impolite, ill-mannered, discourteous, unpleasant, offensive, loutish, churlish, impudent, cheeky, impertinent, insolent, disrespectful, sassy

    • 4.3.7.2 Crazy

    Use this domain for words related to being crazy--to act stupid or strange.

    Related domains: 
    2.5.8 Mental illness
    4.9.4.2 Demon possession
    3.2.1.4 Stupid
  • What words describe someone who is crazy?
    crazy, mad, insane, berserk, barmy, deranged, dotty, batty, flaky,
  • What words refer to a crazy person?
    maniac, lunatic, nut, nutcase, loony, madman, madwoman, nutter, wacko, weirdo,
  • What words refer to being crazy?
    be nuts, be crackers, need your head examined, be out of your mind, be off your rocker, be stark raving mad, be out to lunch,
  • What words refer to the quality of being crazy?
    craziness
  • What words refer to something someone does that is crazy?
    craziness, insanity, lunacy, madness,
  • What words describe something someone does that is crazy?
    crazy, insane, mad, screwy,
  • What words refer to beginning to feel like you are crazy?
    go crazy, go mad, go nuts, go round the bend,
  • What words refer to beginning to act crazy?
    go crazy, go berserk, go mad, go nuts,
  • What words refer to causing someone to feel or act crazy?
    drive someone crazy, drive someone nuts, drive someone mad, drive someone round the bend,

    • 4.3.8 Change behavior

    Use this domain for words related to changing your behavior either for the better or for the worse.

    Related domains: 
    4.8.4.6 Repent
    OMC Codes: 
    153 Modification of Behavior
    154 Adjustment Processes
    155 Personality Development
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    41E Change Behavior
  • What general words refer to changing your behavior?
    change your behavior, modify your behavior, alter your behavior, turn to something
  • What words refer to changing your behavior for the better?
    reform, grow up, mature, mend your ways, turn over a new leaf, shape up, improve, go straight, overcome your past
  • What words refer to changing your behavior for the worse?
    go bad, backslide, fall into sin, your behavior is deteriorating, go crooked
  • What words refer to trying to change someone's behavior?
    change someone, discipline, train, reform someone, influence, have a good/bad influence on someone, turn someone toward/away from something

    • 4.3.8.1 Conform

    Use this domain for words related to conforming to the behavior of others--to try to behave the same way as other people, or to try to behave the way other people want you to act.

    Related domains: 
    8.3.5.3.4 Strange
  • What words refer to conforming to the behavior of others?
    conform,
  • What words describe someone who behaves like most other people?
    conventional,

    • 4.3.9 Culture

    Use this domain for general words referring to culture--the way a group of people (such as a tribe) behaves that is different from other groups.

    OMC Codes: 
    180 Total Culture
    181 Ethos
    182 Function and Adaptational Interpretations
    183 Norms
    184 Cultural Participation
    185 Cultural Goals
    186 Cultural Identity and Pride
    Ethnocentrism
  • What general words refer to culture?
    culture, cultural norm, civilization

    • 4.3.9.1 Custom

    Use this domain for words referring to customs--a particular practice of a cultural group.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    41B Custom, Tradition
  • What words refer to a custom?
    custom, convention, tradition, (our) way, praxis,

    • 4.3.9.2 Habit

    Use this domain for words referring to a habit--a pattern of behavior of a person; something a person does frequently or regularly.

  • What words refer to a habit?
    habit, habitual, mannerism, ways,
  • What words refer to doing something because it is a habit?
    have a habit of doing something, out of habit, from habit, force of habit, be accustomed to

    • 4.4 Prosperity, trouble

    Use this domain for general words referring to prosperity and trouble

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    22 Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances
  • What general words refer to prosperity and trouble?
    prosperity and trouble, good and evil, ying and yang

    • 4.4.1 Prosperity

    Use this domain for words related to prosperity--when good things are happening.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    22G Favorable Circumstances or State
  • What words refer to life going well?
    be fortunate, be blessed, have it easy, have a good life, prosper, be prosperous, everything is going well, have a good time, have plenty
  • What words refer to a good life?
    the good life, good times, prosperity, blessing, good fortune, ease, welfare, quality of life, utopia,
  • What words describe a good life?
    good, blessed, fortunate, easy, prosperous, carefree, trouble free, quality, plentiful, fun-filled, fantastic, great, full, fruitful, productive, enjoyable, happy, wonderful

    • 4.4.2 Trouble

    Use this domain for words referring to bad things that happen in life.

    OMC Codes: 
    730 Social Problems
    732 Disabilities
    Handicapped
    733 Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
    734 Invalidism
    735 Poverty
    736 Dependency
    737 Old Age Dependency
    738 Delinquency
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    22A Trouble, Hardship, Distress
    22B Experience Trouble, Hardship
    22C Cause Trouble, Hardship
    22D Difficult, Hard
    22F Easy, Light
  • What words refer to bad things that happen in life?
    trouble, adversity, difficulty, hardship
  • What types of trouble are there?
    be in need, be in pain, be injured, harm, be in distress, suffer persecution, be in danger, social unrest, anarchy
  • What causes trouble?
    war, famine, disaster, accident, sickness, injury, death, conflict, harm, destruction, oppression

    • 4.4.2.1 Problem

    Use this domain for words related to problems.

  • What words refer to a problem?
    problem, bind, conundrum, difficulty, dire straits, fix, jam, mess, misfortune, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, scrape, trouble,
  • What words refer to solving a problem?
    solve, resolve, figure out

    • 4.4.2.2 Danger

    Use this domain for words referring to danger--things and events that threaten to inflict damage, pain, or death.

    Related domains: 
    4.4.4.8 Risk
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21 Danger, Risk, Safe, Save
    21A Danger
  • What words refer to danger?
    danger, threat,
  • What words describe something that is dangerous?
    dangerous, threatening, life threatening,
  • What words describe something that is not dangerous?
    safe, harmless, out of harm's way

    • 4.4.2.3 Accident

    Use this domain for words related to accidents--something bad that happens without anyone wanting it to happen or doing anything to cause it to happen.

  • What words refer to an accident?
    accident, mishap
  • What words refer to a big accident?
    disaster
  • What words refer to an accident involving vehicles?
    accident, crash, wreck, pile-up, collision
  • What words refer to having an accident?
    have an accident, be involved in an accident, crash
  • What words describe something that happens in an accident?
    accidental

    • 4.4.2.4 Disaster

    Use this domain for words related to a disaster.

    Related domains: 
    6.2.5.2 Crop failure
    OMC Codes: 
    731 Disasters
  • What general words refer to a disaster?
    disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity, crisis, emergency
  • What words refer to a natural disaster?
    natural disaster, 'act of God'
  • What words describe an event that causes a disaster?
    disastrous, catastrophic, tragic
  • What types of disasters are there?
    epidemic (of disease), forest/grass fire, storm, famine, plague (of insects), earthquake, war

    • 4.4.2.5 Separate, alone

    Use this domain for words referring to a person being separate or alone.

  • What words refer to being alone?
    be separate, alone, lonely, isolated, hermit, recluse, cloistered, sanctified, singular, bachelor, old maid, orphan, be by yourself, cut off from people, marooned, remote, distant

    • 4.4.2.6 Suffer

    Use this domain for words related to suffering--to feel very bad because of something very bad that has happened to you.

    Related domains: 
    2.5.6.1 Pain
  • What words refer to suffering?
    suffer, ache for someone, be afflicted with, agonize, endure, feel horrible, have a hard time, be hurting, be in pain, feel pain, feel rotten, undergo, go through, put up with, be subjected to, be in the grip of, be in the throes of,
  • What words refer to suffering because of something you have done?
    suffer, pay for, pay the penalty for, count the cost, cost someone dearly, stew in your own juice, know to your cost, find out to your cost, at a cost to,
  • What words refer to the feeling of suffering?
    suffering, ache, affliction, agony, distress, misery, pain, torment (n), torture (n),
  • What words describe someone who suffers?
    suffering, tormented,
  • What words refer to causing someone to suffer?
    distress (v), give someone a hard time, hurt, inflict, put someone through, subject to, torment (v), torture (v),
  • What words refer to something that causes someone to suffer?
    adversity, hardship, hell, injury, tormenter, torturer,
  • What words describe something that causes someone to suffer?
    agonizing, distressing, hard, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturing,
  • What words describe something that is too painful to accept?
    unbearable, unbearably, intolerable, intolerably, unendurable,
  • What words refer to someone who suffers?
    sufferer, casualty, victim,
  • What words refer to someone who seems to enjoy suffering?
    masochist, martyr, be a glutton for punishment,

    • 4.4.3 Respond to trouble

    Use this domain for words related to responding to trouble.

  • What does a person do when he is in trouble?
    cry for help, rise to the occasion, respond, take action, deal with

    • 4.4.3.1 Brave

    Use this domain for words describing someone who is brave--not afraid to do something dangerous.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25N Courage, Boldness
  • What words refer to the action of showing courage?
    show courage, be brave, dare, brace yourself, embolden, face (v), buck up,
  • What words describe someone who is brave?
    courageous, brave, bold, adventurous, assured, audacious, confident, cool under fire, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, gutsy, heroic, intrepid, never-say-die, plucky, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous
  • What words refer to the ability to do something brave?
    courage, bravery, assurance, audacity, boldness, confidence, firmness, fortitude, gallantry, grit, guts, heroism, manliness, nerve, pluck, spunk, valor, fighting spirit,
  • What words refer to a person who has courage?
    hero, heroine, daredevil,
  • What words refer to being brave enough to do something?
    be brave enough to do something, dare, have the guts to do something, have the nerve to do something, pluck up the courage to do something, have the courage of your convictions,

    • 4.4.3.2 Cowardice

    Use this domain for words related to feeling cowardly--to be afraid to do something because you think something bad might happen to you.

    Related domains: 
    3.4.2.4 Afraid
  • What words refer to feeling cowardly?
    be cowardly, be a coward, act cowardly, have a yellow streak,
  • What words refer to the feeling of cowardice?
    cowardice,
  • What words describe someone who feels cowardly?
    cowardly, chicken, chickenhearted, fainthearted, gutless, lily-livered, pusillanimous, sissified, spineless, weak-kneed, wimpy, yellow, yellow bellied,
  • What words refer to causing someone to feel cowardly?
    unnerve,
  • What words describe something that causes someone to feel cowardly?
    daunting,
  • What words refer to a coward?
    coward, milksop, sissy, wimp, yellow-belly
  • What words refer to becoming cowardly?
    lose your nerve, get cold feet, not dare, chicken out, not have the guts, not have the nerve,
  • How do people show that they feel cowardly?
    cower,

    • 4.4.3.3 Avoid

    Use this domain for words related to avoiding something bad, such as trouble or someone you don't want to meet.

  • What words refer to avoiding trouble?
    avoid trouble, avoid adversity, retreat, appease, to run away

    • 4.4.3.4 Caution

    Use this domain for words related to being cautious.

  • What words describe a person who is cautious?
    cautious, caution, careful
  • What words describe a person who is not cautious?
    incautious, rash, impetuous

    • 4.4.3.5 Solve a problem

    Use this domain for words related to solving a problem.

  • What words refer to solving a problem?
    solve, resolve, put right, find a solution, rectify

    • 4.4.3.6 Endure

    Use this domain for words related to enduring a problem.

  • What words refer to enduring a problem?
    endure, stand, bear, put up with

    • 4.4.3.7 Survive

    Use this domain for words referring to surviving--to live through a time of danger.

  • What words refer to surviving?
    survive, live through, last, remain, survivor, escape, squeak by, make it

    • 4.4.4 Respond to someone in trouble

    Use this domain for words related to responding to someone in trouble.

    OMC Codes: 
    748 Social Work
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    25M Encouragement, Consolation
  • What words refer to the response of a person who sees someone in trouble?
    response, help, aid

    • 4.4.4.1 Mercy

    Use this domain for words related to having mercy on someone who has done something bad.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88J Mercy, Merciless
  • What words refer to having mercy on someone?
    have mercy, be merciful, be compassionate, feel sorry for, have a heart, be kind, empathize, empathy, pity (v), spare,
  • What words describe someone who has mercy on another person?
    merciful, compassionate, humane, lenient, long-suffering, sparing,
  • What words refer to the act of having mercy?
    mercy, mercies, clemency, compassion, empathetic, forbearance, kindness, leniency, pity (n),
  • What words describe someone who does not have mercy on other people?
    merciless, unmerciful, heartless, pitiless, ruthless, ruthlessness,
  • What words describe someone who needs mercy?
    pitiable,

    • 4.4.4.2 Show sympathy, support

    Use this domain for words related to showing sympathy and support to someone in trouble.

  • What words refer to showing sympathy for someone in trouble?
    feel sympathy, empathize with, feel with, sympathetic, comfort, console, compassion,

    • 4.4.4.3 Gentle

    Use this domain for words related to being gentle.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88H Gentleness, Mildness
  • What words refer to being gentle with someone or something?
    be gentle, careful, mild

    • 4.4.4.4 Save from trouble

    Use this domain for words related to saving someone or something from trouble (something bad is happening) or danger (something bad will happen).

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21C Safe, Free from Danger
    21D Become Safe, Free from Danger
    21E Cause To Be Safe, Free from Danger
  • What words refer to saving someone from trouble?
    save, save someone's life, rescue (v), come to someone's rescue, mount a rescue, release, come to the aid of, preserve life, cover, defend, deliver, ensure someone's safety, extricate, free, guard, harbor, hide, insurance, insure, keep, preserve, protect, ransom, recover, retrieve, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvage, screen, secure someone's safety, grant asylum, shelter, shield, spare, pick up (a survivor), get someone out of, bail out, throw someone a lifeline, grant safe conduct
  • What words refer to the act of saving someone?
    salvation, rescue (n), defense, deliverance, extrication, recovery,
  • What words refer to saving yourself?
    make it to safety, get to safety, avoid, break, bypass, dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, evasion, flee, shake, shy away from, sidestep, give someone the slip,
  • What words describe someone who is safe?
    safe, clear, found, free, guarded, immune, impregnable, intact, invulnerable, protected, secure, security, sheltered, unharmed, unhurt, unscathed, untouched, welfare, be out of danger, at a safe distance, be in good hands, safe and sound, with a whole skin
  • What words refer to a person who saves someone?
    savior, defender, deliverer, liberator, rescuer, protector, guardian
  • What words refer to a place where you are safe?
    safety, place of safety, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safe house, safe harbor, haven, stronghold, asylum, hideout, retreat

    • 4.4.4.5 Protect

    Use this domain for words related to protecting someone from danger or being hurt.

    Related domains: 
    4.8.3.7 Weapon, shoot
  • What words refer to protecting someone?
    protect, protection, protective, guard, safeguard, fortify, secure, watch, keep safe, keep, insulate, encircle, defend, defense
  • What is a person called who protects someone?
    protector, guard, watchman, defender, advocate, sentry, bodyguard, defensive force
  • What words are used for a place where someone is protected?
    fortress, fort, castle, battlement, moat, fortification
  • What words refer to something used to protect someone?
    armor, shield, guard,

    • 4.4.4.6 Free from bondage

    Use this domain for words related to freeing someone from bondage.

    Related domains: 
    3.3.4.5 Free to do what you want
  • What words refer to freeing someone from bondage?
    liberated, be free, unfettered, unbound, unchained, unleashed, pardoned, release (n), released, reprieve, parole, unrestrained, licensed, authorized, unconfined

    • 4.4.4.7 Relief

    Use this domain for words related to relief.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    22E Relief from Trouble
  • What words refer to relieving someone?
    relieve someone's suffering, bring relief, give relief, allay, alleviate, assuage, ease someone's load, lighten someone's load, mitigate, bring respite, soften the blow, soothe
  • What words refer to relief from trouble?
    relief

    • 4.4.4.8 Risk

    Use this domain for words referring to risk--exposing oneself or something to danger.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21B Expose Oneself to Danger
  • What words refer to risking something?
    risk, run a risk, expose (oneself to danger), hazard, wager, dare

    • 4.4.5 Chance

    Use this domain for words related to chance--when something happens that no one intended.

    OMC Codes: 
    777 Luck and Chance
  • What words refer to something happening by chance or luck?
    chance, luck, fortune, fate,
  • What words refer to two things happening at the same time by chance?
    coincidence,
  • What words refer to believing that things cause good or bad luck?
    superstition, superstitious,

    • 4.4.5.1 Lucky

    Use this domain for words related to being lucky.

  • What words refer to being lucky on a particular occasion?
    lucky, fortunate, be in luck, have the good fortune to do something, fall on your feet, be in the right place at the right time, luck out,
  • What words refer to being lucky all the time?
    lucky, fortunate, some people have all the luck, lead a charmed life, not know you're born, it's all right for some,
  • What words describe something good that happens as a result of good luck?
    lucky, fortunate, miraculous, a good thing, a good job, stroke of luck, fluke,
  • What words refer to something that makes good things happen to someone?
    luck, a run of good luck,
  • What words describe something that makes you lucky?
    lucky (charm/number/day),
  • What words indicate that something bad did not happen as a result of luck?
    luckily, fortunately, happily,
  • What words refer to something that seems unlucky but turns out to be good?
    blessing in disguise,
  • What do people say when they hope someone will be lucky?
    wish someone luck, good luck, best of luck,
  • What do people say to try to prevent bad luck?
    knock on wood, touch wood, keep your fingers crossed,

    • 4.4.5.2 Unlucky

    Use this domain for words related to being unlucky.

  • What words refer to being unlucky on a particular occasion?
    unlucky, unfortunate, have the misfortune to do something, have bad luck, be out of luck, a run of bad luck, it's one of those days, it's not my day,
  • What words describe someone who always has bad luck?
    unlucky, with my luck, just my luck, jinxed, born under a bad star, cursed,
  • What words describe an unlucky situation or event?
    unlucky, unfortunate, unfortunately, as bad luck would have it, be bad luck,
  • What words describe something that causes bad luck?
    unlucky, be bad luck, bring bad luck, a jinx on,
  • What words refer to bad luck?
    bad luck, misfortune, bit of bad luck, hard luck,

    • 4.5 Authority

    Use this domain for words related to authority.

  • What words refer to authority?
    authority, power, dominion, hegemony, control, right

    • 4.5.1 Person in authority

    Use this domain for words related to a person in authority.

    OMC Codes: 
    622 Community Heads
    Headmen
    624 Local Officials
  • What words refer to a person in authority?
    person in authority, authority, authority figure, person in charge, leader, boss, captain, director, chairman, chairperson, head, figurehead, master

    • 4.5.2 Have authority

    Use this domain for words related to having authority.

  • What words refer to having authority?
    have authority, be in authority, be in charge

    • 4.5.3 Exercise authority

    Use this domain for words related to exercising authority.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37C Exercise Authority
  • What words refer to exercising authority?
    exercise authority, use authority, authorize, strict, severe

    • 4.5.3.1 Lead

    Use this domain for words referring to one person leading or controlling other people because they have authority over them.

    Related domains: 
    7.3.3 Take somewhere
    7.2.5.3 Guide
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    36 Guide, Discipline, Follow
    36A Guide, Lead
  • What words refer to leading?
    lead, direct, control, guide
  • What words refer to the ability to lead?
    leadership, charisma, stewardship, guidance, chieftainship
  • What words refer to someone who leads?
    leader,

    • 4.5.3.2 Command

    Use this domain for words related to commanding someone to do something.

    Related domains: 
    3.3.3 Influence
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33F' Command, Order
  • What words refer to commanding someone to do something?
    command, order, direct, impel, prescribe,

    • 4.5.3.3 Discipline, train

    Use this domain for words related to disciplining someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    36B Discipline, Train
  • What words refer to disciplining someone?
    discipline, train, drill, prepare, train, control, strict, severe

    • 4.5.3.4 Appoint, delegate

    Use this domain for words related to appointing someone to a position of authority, or delegating authority to someone.

    OMC Codes: 
    676 Agency
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37E Assign to a Role or Function
  • What words refer to appointing someone to a position of authority?
    appoint (someone to a position), appointment, assign (someone to a position), place (someone in authority), designate (someone as), delegate (authority to), give (authority to), entrust (someone) with (something)
  • What words describe someone in a position of authority?
    responsible

    • 4.5.4 Submit to authority

    Use this domain for words related to submitting to authority.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39D Yielding
    33U Profess Allegiance
  • What words refer to submitting to authority?
    submit to authority, obey, law abiding

    • 4.5.4.1 Obey

    Use this domain for words related to obeying someone.

  • What words refer to being obedient?
    obey, abide by the law, submit, comply
  • What words refer to a person who obeys?
    law-abiding citizen
  • What words describe a person who obeys?
    obedient, law-abiding, submissive, compliant

    • 4.5.4.2 Disobey

    Use this domain for words related to disobeying someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    36C Obey, Disobey
  • What words refer to being disobedient?
    disobey, break the law, refuse to submit, rebel
  • What words refer to a person who disobeys?
    law breaker, criminal, rebel
  • What words describe a person who disobeys?
    disobedient, law breaking, unsubmissive, rebellious

    • 4.5.4.3 Serve

    Use this domain for words related to serving someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    35B Serve
  • What words refer to serving someone?
    serve, service, attend to, wait on,
  • What words refer to a servant?
    servant, manservant, maidservant,
  • What words refer to a servant who works in a house?
    butler, maid, chambermaid, housemaid, houseboy,

    • 4.5.4.4 Slave

    Use this domain for words referring to a slave--a person owned by another and obligated to work without wages.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    87E Slave, Free
  • What words refer to a slave?
    slave, bondservant, serf
  • What words refer to the condition of being a slave?
    slavery, bondage, servitude

    • 4.5.4.5 Follow, be a disciple

    Use this domain for words related to being a disciple of someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    36D Follow, Be a Disciple
  • What words refer to a disciple following someone?
    follow, be a disciple
  • What words refer to a disciple?
    disciple, adherent, devotee, follower, imitator, learner, proselyte

    • 4.5.4.6 Rebel against authority

    Use this domain for words related to rebelling against authority.

    OMC Codes: 
    669 Revolution
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39G Rebellion
  • What words refer to rebelling against authority?
    rebel, revolt, resist, rise up, rise against, mutiny, overthrow
  • What words refer to the act of rebellion?
    rebellion, revolt, revolution, sedition, insurrection, insurgency, mutiny, civil disobedience, coup, coup d'etat, counterrevolution, putsch, takeover, uprising,
  • What words refer to the process of rebellion?
    rebel cause, rebel movement
  • What words refer to an instance of rebelling?
    act of rebellion, rebellious act, revolutionary act, demonstration, riot, disorder, sabotage
  • What words refer to a person who rebels?
    rebel, activist, agitator, anarchist, belligerent, conspirator, extremist, guerrilla, insurgent, liberationist, militant, mutineer, rabble-rouser, radical, rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, terrorist
  • What words describe a rebel?
    rebellious, revolutionary, defiant, mutinous, radical
  • What words describe a revolution?
    violent, peaceful
  • What is the leader of a rebellion called?
    leader of a rebellion, rebel leader, revolutionary leader
  • What does the leader of a rebellion do?
    lead a rebellion, organize a rebellion,
  • What do the authorities do to stop a rebellion?
    put down, suppress,

    • 4.5.4.7 Independent

    Use this domain for words related to being independent.

  • What words describe a country that is independent?
    independent, sovereign, self-governing

    • 4.5.5 Honor

    Use this domain for words related to honoring someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    87B Honor or Respect in Relation to Status
  • What words refer to honoring someone?
    show respect, respectful, honor, glorify, praise, magnify, lift up, worship
  • What words refer to a posture of giving honor?
    bow, prostrate

    • 4.5.5.1 Title, name of honor

    Use this domain for words related to a title of honor.

  • What words refer to a title used to address a person?
    title, terms of address,
  • What words are used to speak to a person in authority?
    your honor, your majesty, your grace, sir, mister, madam, ma'am

    • 4.5.5.2 Lack respect

    Use this domain for words related to lacking respect.

  • What words refer to a lack of respect?
    lack respect, show disrespect, disrespectful, dishonor, despise

    • 4.5.6 Status

    Use this domain for words related to a person's social status.

    OMC Codes: 
    550 Individuation and Mobility
    554 Status, Role, and Prestige
    555 Talent Mobility
    557 Manipulative Mobility
    558 Downward Mobility
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    87 Status
    87A Position, Rank
  • What general words refer to a person's status?
    status, rank, position,
  • What words refer moving to a higher status or position in an organization?
    be promoted, move up the ladder, move on to higher things, promotion, rise, advancement,
  • What words refer to giving someone a higher position?
    promote, upgrade, elevate,

    • 4.5.6.1 High status

    Use this domain for words related to high social status.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    87C High Status or Rank
  • What words describe high status?
    high status, high rank, privilege, promote, raise in status, raise in rank, important person, aristocracy, prominent, grand, great
  • What titles of address are used to refer to or speak to a person of high status?
    sir, my lord, gentleman, lady

    • 4.5.6.2 Low status

    Use this domain for words related to low social status.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    87D Low Status or Rank
  • What words refer to being low in status?
    be low down, be at the bottom, be at the bottom of the pile,
  • What words refer to low status?
    low status, low estate
  • What words describe someone who is low in status?
    junior, low-ranking,
  • What words refer to being lower in status than someone else?
    assistant, subordinate, under,
  • What words are used of lowering someone's status?
    be reduced in status, humble, reduce in rank, bust (in rank), debase, degrade, demote

    • 4.6 Government

    Use this domain for words related to government.

    OMC Codes: 
    640 State
  • What general words refer to government?
    govern, government, governor, governance
  • What words refer to the place where the government is?
    capital, seat of government,
  • What words describe something having to do with the government?
    governmental, official
  • What words describe the kind of government in a country?
    monarchy, democracy, democratic, republic, republican, autocratic, dictatorship, dictatorial, communist, communistic, socialist, socialistic, theocracy, theocratic,
  • What words refer to flags and other symbols of government?
    flag, official seal, crown, scepter, throne, regalia,

    • 4.6.1 Ruler

    Use this domain for words related to the ruler of a country.

    OMC Codes: 
    643 Chief Executive
    644 Executive Household
  • What is the person called who is the highest ruler in the country?
    ruler, highest ruler, supreme authority, head of state, leader of the country, emperor, king, president, premier, chancellor, prime minister, Caesar, pharaoh, chief, paramount chief, chieftain, chief of state
  • What words refer to the position or office of the ruler?
    throne, kingship, presidency, premiership, chieftaincy, chieftainship, position, office
  • What words describe something having to do with the ruler?
    royal, regal, imperial, kingly, presidential, majestic
  • What words refer to the house of the ruler?
    palace, castle, White House, number 10 Downing Street,
  • What words refer to the symbols of the ruler?
    throne, crown, diadem, scepter, royal robes, presidential seal,
  • What special words and phrases are used when talking to the ruler?
    your majesty, live forever
  • What words refer to when a ruler begins to rule?
    take the throne, crown (v), swear in, take the oath of office,
  • What words refer to when a ruler stops ruling?
    abdicate, resign, overthrow, leave office,

    • 4.6.1.1 King's family

    Use this domain for words related to the king's family.

  • What is the king's family called?
    royal family, royalty, nobility
  • What are the members of the king's family called?
    queen (king's wife), prince (king's son), princess (king's daughter), duke (king's brother), duchess (king's sister), queen mother (king's mother), former king (king's father), noble, nobleman
  • What is the person called who has been designated as the next king?
    the next king, heir apparent, successor to the throne, Prince of Wales
  • What words are used to describe things related to the king's family?
    royal, queenly, princely, noble

    • 4.6.1.2 Government official

    Use this domain for words related to a government official.

    OMC Codes: 
    645 Cabinet
  • What words refer to a government official?
    official, chancellor, court, courtier, chamberlain, eunuch, minister, cabinet member
  • What words refer to position in the government?
    position, post, office,

    • 4.6.2 Citizen

    Use this domain for words related to a citizen of a country.

    OMC Codes: 
    641 Citizenship
    160 Demography
    161 Population
    162 Composition of Population
    163 Birth Statistics
    164 Morbidity
    165 Mortality
    168 Population Policy
  • What words refer to a citizen of a country?
    citizen, naturalized citizen, native, subject, countryman, inhabitant
  • What words refer to all the citizens of a country?
    people, populace, citizenry, nation
  • What words refer to the status of a citizen?
    citizenship, natural born, naturalized
  • What official documents are used to prove citizenship?
    birth certificate, passport, identification papers
  • What words refer to counting the citizens?
    census, take a census, number (v)
  • What words refer to the number of citizens in a country or area?
    population
  • What words refer to studying the citizens?
    demography
  • What words refer to a person who lives in a country?
    inhabitant, resident

    • 4.6.2.1 Foreigner

    Use this domain for words related to a foreigner--a person who visits or lives in a country but is not a citizen.

    Related domains: 
    9.7.1.4 Tribal names
    9.7.2.1 Names of countries
    4.1.9.9 Race
  • What words refer to a foreigner?
    foreigner, immigrant, alien, expatriate, outsider
  • What words refer to a person you don't know?
    stranger
  • What words describe something from a foreign country?
    foreign, overseas,
  • What words indicate that someone is in or going to a foreign country?
    abroad, overseas,

    • 4.6.3 Government organization

    Use this domain for words related to a government organization.

    OMC Codes: 
    621 Community Structure
    628 Inter-community Relations
    629 Inter-ethnic Relations
    642 Constitution
  • What general words refer to a government organization?
    government organization, ministry, department, branch, agency

    • 4.6.3.1 Governing body

    Use this domain for words related to a governing body--an organization within the government.

    OMC Codes: 
    623 Councils
    646 Parliament
    647 Administrative Agencies
  • What words refer to a governing body?
    governing body, congress, parliament, legislature, court, cabinet, council, ministry, department

    • 4.6.4 Rule

    Use this domain for words related to ruling.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37D Rule, Govern
    37 Control, Rule
  • What words refer to ruling?
    rule, reign, be in power

    • 4.6.5 Subjugate

    Use this domain for words related to a person subjugating someone to their authority.

  • What words refer to subjugating someone?
    subjugate, subject (someone) to authority

    • 4.6.6 Government functions

    Use this domain for words related to government functions--the things a government does.

    Related domains: 
    6.8.8 Tax
    OMC Codes: 
    626 Social Control
    650 Government Activities
    653 Public Works
    654 Research and Development
    655 Government Enterprises
    656 Government Regulation
    657 Public Welfare
    658 Public Education
    659 Miscellaneous Government Activities
    744 Public Health and Sanitation
    745 Social Insurance
    746 Public Assistance
  • What are the functions of government?
    regulation of trade, regulation of finance, coinage, printing money, public works, keeping the peace, waging war, putting down rebellion, passing laws, enforcing the law, punishing crime,
  • What words refer to the postal system?
    mail, post, post office, stamp, postman, postal

    • 4.6.6.1 Police

    Use this domain for words related to the police.

    OMC Codes: 
    625 Police
  • What words refer to the police?
    police, police officer, policeman, police force, chief of police, posse,
  • What do police do?
    enforce the law, investigate crime, patrol, set up roadblocks, file reports
  • What tools do police use?
    gun, revolver, billy club, handcuffs, police uniform, badge, police car, siren, police radio, whistle
  • Where do the police work?
    police station, precinct, beat,

    • 4.6.6.1.1 Arrest

    Use this domain for words related to arresting a criminal.

    Related domains: 
    7.2.6.1 Catch, capture
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37F Seize, Take into Custody
  • What do police do to suspected criminals?
    pursue, hunt down, look for, post want ads
  • What words refer to the police arresting a criminal?
    arrest, apprehend, apprehension, bust, capture, catch, collar, detain, detention, nab, pick up, seize, seizure, take away, take into custody, take prisoner, trap,
  • What do the police do to a criminal?
    arraign, book, lock up, imprison, put behind bars, handcuff, chain

    • 4.6.6.1.2 Informal justice

    Use this domain for words related to informal justice--punishing someone when you are not in a position of authority, as when a mob catches and kills a criminal.

    OMC Codes: 
    627 Informal In-group Justice
  • What words refer to justice that is not given by someone in authority?
    informal justice, mob justice, lynch

    • 4.6.6.2 Diplomacy

    Use this domain for words related to diplomacy between nations.

    OMC Codes: 
    648 International Relations
  • What words refer to diplomacy between nations?
    diplomacy, diplomatic corps, ambassador, (king's) representative, Secretary of State, treaty, international relations,

    • 4.6.6.3 Represent

    Use this domain for words related to representing another person.

  • What words refer to representing someone?
    represent, act for,
  • What words refer to speaking for a group of people?
    speak for, represent,
  • What words indicate someone who is representing another person?
    as someone's representative, on someone's behalf, on behalf of, for
  • What words refer to someone who represents another person?
    representative, contingent, envoy, delegate, delegation, deputation, mission, mouthpiece, spokesman,
  • What words refer to someone who represents their government in a foreign country?
    ambassador, ambassador, embassy, diplomat, diplomatic,

    • 4.6.6.4 Election

    Use this domain for words related to an election.

    OMC Codes: 
    666 Elections
  • What words refer to electing a government official?
    election, elect, to vote, vote, candidate, campaign

    • 4.6.6.5 Politics

    Use this domain for words related to politics--the activities of politicians and political parties.

    OMC Codes: 
    660 Political Behavior
    661 Exploitation
    662 Political Intrigue
    663 Public Service
    664 Pressure Politics
    665 Political Parties
    667 Political Machines
    668 Political Movements
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    11C Socio-Political
  • What words refer to a political party?
    party, Democratic party, Republican party, Communist party, Nazi party, political party,
  • What words refer to a member of a political party?
    member, card-carrying, Democrat, Republican, Communist, Nazi, Fascist,
  • What words refer to a politician?
    politician, official, senator, member of parliament, congressman, councilor, deputy, dictator, diplomat, governor, legislator
  • What words refer to a meeting of a political party?
    convention, caucus,
  • What words refer to the activity of a political party?
    politics, movement, machine,

    • 4.6.7 Region

    Use this domain for words referring to a region--a part of a country, or a part of the earth.

    OMC Codes: 
    630 Territorial Organization
    631 Territorial Hierarchy
    634 Districts
    635 Provinces
    636 Dependencies
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1K Sociopolitical Areas
  • What words refer to a region or a country?
    region, land, territory, territorial
  • What words refer to a particular region of the earth?
    Antarctic, arctic, equatorial, tropics
  • What words refer to a region of a country?
    state, province, territory, prefecture, county, district,

    • 4.6.7.1 Country

    Use this domain for words related to a country.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1L Governmental Administrative Areas
  • What words refer to a country?
    country, land, nation, territory, kingdom
  • What words refer to the parts of a country?
    state, province, region, territory
  • What words refer to the border of a country?
    border, boundary
  • What words refer to the flag and other symbols of a country?
    flag, standard, seal, coat of arms
  • What words describe something that has to do with a country?
    national
  • What words describe something that has to do with more than one country?
    international

    • 4.6.7.2 City

    Use this domain for words related to a city.

    OMC Codes: 
    632 Towns
    633 Cities
    360 Settlements
    361 Settlement Patterns
    362 Housing
    369 Urban and Rural Life
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1N Population Centers
  • What words refer to a city?
    city, town, village, hamlet, burg, community, urban
  • What words refer to a part of a city?
    district, park

    • 4.6.7.3 Countryside

    Use this domain for words related to the countryside--the area away from a city

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1M Areas Which Are Uninhabited or Only Sparsely Populated
  • What words refer to the countryside?
    boondocks, boonies, country, countryside, desert, field, outback, outland, outskirts, rural, sticks, upcountry, wasteland, wilderness
  • What words describe an area that doesn't have many people?
    deserted, desolate, lonely, uninhabited, sparsely populated

    • 4.6.7.4 Community

    Use this domain for words related to a community.

    OMC Codes: 
    620 Community
  • What words refer to a community?
    community

    • 4.7 Law

    Use this domain for words related to the law.

    OMC Codes: 
    670 Law
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    56 Courts and Legal Procedures
  • What general words refer to the law?
    law
  • What words describe something that agrees or disagrees with the law?
    in accordance with, just, lawful, legal, legality
  • What words refer to enforcing the law?
    law enforcement, police, policeman, enforce
  • What words refer to a lawyer?
    lawyer, advocate, barrister, bar
  • What words refer to administering the law?
    adjudicate, judge, administer, justice, jury
  • What words refer to a person's responsibility to obey the law?
    responsible, responsibility, obligation
  • What words refer to a person's rights under the law?
    right

    • 4.7.1 Laws

    Use this domain for words referring to a specific law or set of laws.

    OMC Codes: 
    671 Legal Norms
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33G' Law, Regulation, Ordinance
  • What words refer to a law?
    law, act of law, appointment, bill, command, commandment, constraint, decree, dogma, edict, judgment, legislation, ordinance, prescription, principle, regulation, requirement, rule, ruling, religious law, rubric, standard, statute
  • What words refer to all the laws of a country?
    laws, canon, code of laws, legal code
  • What words refer to the laws that set up a government?
    constitution

    • 4.7.2 Pass laws

    Use this domain for words related to passing a law.

  • What words refer to passing a law?
    legislate, enact, enactment, establish, pass, prescribe, propose, sign into law, ratify
  • What words refer to canceling a law?
    annul, strike down, veto
  • What words refer to telling people about a law?
    issue an order, publish a law, proclaim, proclamation
  • What is the name of the governing body that passes laws?
    legislature, legislative branch
  • Who passes laws?
    legislator, congressman, senator, member of parliament (MP), lawgiver,

    • 4.7.3 Break the law

    Use this domain for words related to breaking the law.

    OMC Codes: 
    674 Crime
    677 Organized Crime
    672 Liability
    673 Wrongs
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88R Act Lawlessly
  • What words refer to breaking the law?
    commit (a crime), break the law
  • What words refer to a crime?
    crime, misdemeanor, felony, capital offense, treason, illegality, lawbreaking, offense, wrong, wrongdoing, outrage, transgression, trespass, sin, evil
  • What words refer to a person who breaks the law?
    criminal, lawbreaker, underworld,
  • What words describe an action that is against the law?
    illegal, against the law, criminal, wrong,

    • 4.7.4 Court of law

    Use this domain for words related to a court of law.

    OMC Codes: 
    698 Special Courts
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    56A Court of Justice
    56B Lawsuit, Case
  • What is a court of law called?
    court of law, law court, supreme court, superior court, court of appeals, district court, divorce court, juvenile court, appellate court, tribunal, court-martial, kangaroo court
  • Where is a court held?
    courthouse
  • What are the parts of a courthouse?
    courtroom, judge's chambers, jury room
  • What are the parts of a courtroom?
    jury bench, witness stand, witness box, judge's bench, lawyers table, bar, dock
  • What words refer to the time when the court is in session?
    session, the court is now in session
  • What is a court case called?
    trial, case, lawsuit, suit, action, litigation, proceedings, dispute, hearing

    • 4.7.4.1 Legal personnel

    Use this domain for words related to legal personnel.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    56G Attorney, Lawyer
  • What words refer to legal personnel?
    legal personnel, arbitrator, scribe
  • What is the staff of a court?
    judge, court clerk, court recorder, bailiff
  • What is a person called who argues a case before a judge?
    lawyer, counsel, legal counsel, counselor-at-law, attorney, attorney-at-law, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, solicitor
  • What is a lawyer called who defends the accused person?
    defense attorney, counsel for the defense
  • What is a lawyer called who tries to convict the accused person?
    prosecutor, district attorney, prosecuting attorney, attorney general

    • 4.7.5 Trial

    Use this domain for words related to the legal process.

    OMC Codes: 
    691 Litigation
    690 Justice
    692 Judicial Authority
    693 Legal and Judicial Personnel
    694 Initiation of Judicial Proceedings
    695 Trial Procedure
    696 Execution of Justice
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    56D Judicial Hearing, Inquiry
  • What words refer to the process of administering the law?
    legal process, due process of law, lawsuit, jurisdiction, take legal action, jurisprudence,

    • 4.7.5.1 Investigate a crime

    Use this domain for words referring to investigating a crime, accident, or criminal--to try to learn something about something bad that has happened because you want to know who did it, or to try to learn something about someone because you think they did something bad.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    27C Learn Something Against Someone
  • What words refer to investigating a crime or accident?
    investigate, look into, inquire, hold an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, make inquiries, go into, probe, delve into, be under investigation, examine, obtain evidence,
  • What words refer to investigating someone to know if they have done something wrong?
    obtain evidence, poke around, snoop, surprise, try, question,
  • What words refer to the process of investigation?
    investigation, inquiry, inquest, inquiries, probe, inquisition, post-mortem, autopsy,
  • What words refer to knowledge about a crime?
    evidence, facts, proof
  • What words refer to finding out that someone committed a crime?
    catch, detect, entrap, catch red-handed, trap, trip up, find out, prove,
  • What words refer to a person who investigates a crime?
    investigator, private investigator, detective, private detective, inquisitor, private eye

    • 4.7.5.2 Suspect

    Use this domain for words related to suspecting someone--to think that someone might have done something bad.

  • What words refer to thinking that someone did something bad?
    suspect (v), suspicious, suspicion, have a sneaking suspicion, smell a rat, have your suspicions
  • What words describe something that makes you suspect someone?
    suspicious, suspect (adj), fishy, dubious, questionable,
  • What words refer to someone who is suspected?
    suspect (n),
  • What words describe someone who is suspected?
    suspected (terrorist), be under suspicion,

    • 4.7.5.3 Accuse, confront

    Use this domain for words related to accusing someone of doing something bad.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33V' Accuse, Blame
    56C Accusation
  • What words refer to accusing someone?
    accuse, confront, accost, incriminate, blame, point the finger at, criticize, hold responsible, find fault with, be direct with, don't mince words, tell off, rebuke, reprove, remonstrate, to rebuke, correct, reproof, remonstrance, castigate, cast aspersions, prove, offer proof
  • What words refer to the person who accuses another person?
    plaintiff
  • What words refer to the person who has been accused of something?
    the accused, the defendant

    • 4.7.5.4 Defend against accusation

    Use this domain for words related to defending someone who has been accused of breaking a law.

    Related domains: 
    4.8.2.4 Defend
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33W' Defend, Excuse
  • What words refer to defending someone?
    make defense, defend, uphold, protect, fortify, excuse, apologize, plead, make a case for, represent, advocate, argue a case, prove, offer proof

    • 4.7.5.5 Witness, testify

    Use this domain for words related to testifying in a court of law.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33T Witness, Testify
  • What words refer to testifying in a court?
    witness, testify, give evidence, tell about, recount, provide information, facts, truth, false witness, perjure, perjury, report, cross-examine, hearsay
  • What is a person called who gives testimony?
    witness
  • What words refer to a witness lying?
    false testimony, perjury

    • 4.7.5.6 Drop charges

    Use this domain for words related to dropping legal charges against someone.

  • What words refer to dropping legal charges?
    drop charges, decide not to press charges

    • 4.7.5.7 Take oath

    Use this domain for words related to taking an oath.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33B" Swear, Put Under Oath, Vow
  • What words refer to taking an oath?
    take an oath, swear, solemnly swear, promise, guarantee, invoke a curse, vow, forswear, raise right hand, blood oath, adjure

    • 4.7.5.8 Vindicate

    Use this domain for words referring to vindicating someone--to prove that someone is innocent of an accusation made against them.

  • What words refer to vindicating someone?
    vindicate, exonerate, justify, warrant, exculpate, acquit, clear, set right

    • 4.7.6 Judge, render a verdict

    Use this domain for words related to judging someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    56E Judge, Condemn, Acquit
    56F Obtain Justice
    56H Lead Off to Punishment
  • What words are used of the action of judging a person?
    to judge, render a verdict, rule on a case
  • What words refer to the judgment?
    judgment, verdict, ruling

    • 4.7.6.1 Acquit

    Use this domain for words related to acquitting a person.

  • What words are used of the action of acquitting a person?
    acquit, declare not guilty, declare innocent, find not guilty, clear, clear name, clear of charges, clear someone's record, prove innocence, set free, release
  • What words refer to the acquittal?
    acquittal
  • What words refer to the person who is acquitted?
    innocent man, innocent party, free man
  • What words refer to his innocence?
    innocence
  • What words describe someone who is not guilty?
    blameless, inculpable, irreproachable,

    • 4.7.6.2 Condemn, find guilty

    Use this domain for words related to condemning someone.

  • What words are used of the action of condemning a person?
    recover damages, render a guilty verdict, hand down a conviction
  • What words refer to the judgment?
    judgment, verdict, sentence, conviction, condemnation
  • What words refer to the person who is condemned?
    condemned man, convict, guilty party
  • What words refer to his guilt?
    guilt

    • 4.7.6.3 Fault

    Use this domain for words related to something being someone's fault.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.1.8.1 Blame
  • What words refer to who is responsible for something bad?
    fault, blame, responsible, be to blame for, be guilty of, be responsible for, guilt, responsibility, guilty, blameless, innocent,

    • 4.7.7 Punish

    Use this domain for words related to punishing someone.

    OMC Codes: 
    681 Sanctions
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    38 Punish, Reward
    38A Punish
  • What words refer to punishing someone?
    punish, discipline, penalty, consequence, punishment, sentence,
  • What things are used to punish someone?
    stocks, pillory,
  • What words refer to punishing someone by beating them?
    flog, beat, lash, scourge, whip,
  • What things are used to punish someone by beating them?
    belt, cane, lash, paddle, rod, stick, strap, switch, whip
  • What words refer to torturing someone?
    torture,
  • What things are used to torture someone?
    rack, screw, thumbscrew,

    • 4.7.7.1 Reward

    Use this domain for words related to rewarding someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    38B Reward, Recompense
  • What words refer to rewarding someone?
    reward, recompense

    • 4.7.7.2 Fine

    Use this domain for words referring to a fine--a payment (usually of money) made to a victim or the government for a crime committed against them.

  • What words refer to fining someone?
    fine, fine (n), financial penalty, citation, ticket, cite, confiscate

    • 4.7.7.3 Imprison

    Use this domain for words related to imprisoning someone.

    OMC Codes: 
    697 Prisons and Jails
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37H Imprison
    37I Guard, Watch Over
  • What words refer to the action of putting a person in prison?
    put in prison, imprison, to jail, incarcerate, lock up, confine, put in irons, send to prison, commit, put away, captivity,
  • What is a person called who is imprisoned?
    prisoner, jailbird, captive, felon, convict, inmate, prisoner of war
  • Where are people imprisoned?
    prison, brig, can, concentration camp, correctional institution, death camp, dungeon, house of correction, jail, jailhouse, county jail, joint, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, federal penitentiary, pound, reformatory, slammer, stockade,
  • What are the parts of a prison?
    cell, cellblock, bars, stocks, death row, solitary confinement, cooler,
  • Who are the staff of a prison?
    prison warden, prison guard, jailer, keeper, turnkey, warder
  • What words refer to the action of restraining a prisoner?
    restrain, control, to handcuff, tie up, put in chains, to bind, put in the stocks, to gag
  • What means are used to restrain prisoners?
    restraints, handcuffs, chains, bonds, stocks, gag
  • What words are used of escaping from prison?
    escape, break out of jail, jailbreak, escapee, escaped prisoner, be on the run
  • What words refer to the process of serving a sentence?
    serve your sentence
  • What words refer to the process of completing a sentence?
    complete your sentence, serve out the sentence, fulfill your sentence
  • What words refer to the action of releasing a person from prison?
    release, let go, let out of prison, set free

    • 4.7.7.4 Execute

    Use this domain for words related to executing someone for a crime.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6F Instruments Used in Punishment and Execution
  • What words refer to executing someone for a crime?
    execute, behead, hang, crucify, burn at the stake, impale, execution,
  • What words refer to someone who executes a criminal?
    executioner, firing squad, hangman,
  • What things are used to execute someone?
    gas chamber, electric chair, gallows, gibbet, guillotine, lethal injection, noose, scaffold, cross, stake, sword,

    • 4.7.7.5 Ostracize

    Use this domain for words referring to ostracizing someone--excluding someone from society as punishment for some wrong.

  • What words refer to ostracizing someone?
    ostracize, exile, marginalize, shun, cast out, exclude
  • What words refer to a person who has been ostracized?
    outcast, pariah

    • 4.7.7.6 Pardon, release

    Use this domain for words related to pardoning someone who has been found guilty of a crime.

  • What words are used of not punishing someone who has been found guilty?
    pardon, grant a pardon, have mercy on, release, commute sentence, reduce sentence, let out, let off

    • 4.7.7.7 Atone, restitution

    Use this domain for words referring to atoning for a past sin--doing something to make up for something bad you did, or giving something to pay for something bad you did.

  • What words refer to atoning for a sin?
    atone, expiate, make up for, make amends, compensate, repay, pay for, pay your debt to society,
  • What words refer to something a person does to atone for a sin?
    penance, amends,
  • What words refer to something a person gives to atone for a sin?
    restitution, compensation, damages, reparations, indemnity,
  • What words refer to the act of atoning for a sin?
    atonement, expiation, reparation, redress,

    • 4.7.8 Legal contract

    Use this domain for words related to a legal contract.

    OMC Codes: 
    675 Contracts
  • What words refer to a legal contract?
    contract, memorandum of agreement, treaty, peace accord, charter, constitution, compact, pact, will, testament, covenant, notarize

    • 4.7.8.1 Covenant

    Use this domain for words related to a covenant between two people or groups of people.

  • What words refer to a covenant?
    covenant, testament, deal, agreement, bond, commitment, to trust

    • 4.7.8.2 Break a contract

    Use this domain for words related to breaking a contract.

  • What words refer to breaking a contract?
    break a contract, nullify

    • 4.7.9 Justice

    Use this domain for words related to justice.

  • What words refer to justice?
    justice, fairness

    • 4.7.9.1 Impartial

    Use this domain for words related to being impartial.

  • What words describe a person who treats other people equally?
    be impartial, fair, consistent, equal treatment, impartial, impartiality,

    • 4.7.9.2 Unfair

    Use this domain for words related to being unfair.

  • What words refer to whether someone deserves something?
    unfair, unjust, wrongful,
  • What words describe something that someone does not deserve?
    undeserved, inappropriate, unwarranted, unearned,

    • 4.7.9.3 Deserve

    Use this domain for words related to deserving something--if you do something, either good or bad, something can happen to you as a result of what you did. For instance you can receive a reward for doing good, or a punishment for doing wrong. If what happened to you is like what you did, people can think it is right that this thing happened to you.

  • What words refer to deserving what you receive?
    deserve, merit, be owed, be yours by right, have earned,
  • What words indicate that someone deserves the problems they are having?
    deserve, had it coming, get what you deserve, serve someone right, get your just deserts, get what was coming to you, your punishment fits the crime,
  • What words describe something that someone deserves?
    well-deserved, well-earned, fitting, appropriate,

    • 4.7.9.4 Discriminate, be unfair

    Use this domain for words related to being unfair to someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88D' Show Favoritism, Prejudice
  • What words refer to being unfair to someone?
    discriminate, be unfair, biased, prejudiced
  • What words refer to the act or practice of being unfair?
    unfairness, discrimination, bias, prejudice
  • What words refer to one person causing another to be unfair?
    bias someone against, prejudice someone against

    • 4.7.9.5 Act harshly

    Use this domain for words related to acting harshly.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88Q Act Harshly
  • What words refer to acting harshly?
    act harshly, abrasive, abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, brute, bully, caustic, cruel, cruelty, demanding, exacting, forceful, grate, grim, hard, harsh, martial law, pugnacious, rigid, rough, severe, sharp, stern, stiff, stinging, strict, stringent, tough, unfavorable, unfeeling, ungentle, violent

    • 4.7.9.6 Oppress

    Use this domain for words related to oppressing someone or a particular group of people--when a person uses his power or authority to harm others who are innocent.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39I Persecution
  • What words refer to oppressing someone?
    oppress, bully, harass, hound, persecute, repress, tyrannize,
  • What words refer to the act or practice of oppressing people?
    oppression, harassment, persecution, tyranny
  • What words refer to a person who oppresses?
    oppressor, persecutor, bully, slave driver, tyrant, dictator
  • What words describe a person who is oppressed?
    oppressed, persecuted, tyrannized
  • What words describe a person who oppresses?
    oppressive, tyrannical, cruel

    • 4.8 Conflict

    Use this domain for general words referring to conflict between people, including quarreling, fighting, and war. The words in this domain should be very general, rather than referring to specific kinds of conflict.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.6 Disunity
    OMC Codes: 
    578 Ingroup Antagonisms
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39 Hostility, Strife
  • What general words refer to conflict between people?
    conflict, strife,

    • 4.8.1 Hostility

    The words in this domain describe a situation in which people disagree about something so strongly that they might start fighting. But these words imply that they have not started fighting yet.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.6.1 Unfriendly
    OMC Codes: 
    578 Ingroup Antagonisms
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39 Hostility, Strife
    39E Strife, Struggle
  • What words refer to hostility between people?
    conflict, antagonism, discord, disharmony, friction, hostility, ill feeling, rivalry, strife, tension, sit on a powder key, cold war, phony war,
  • What words describe someone who is hostile?
    hostile, aggressive, combative, contentious, discordant,

    • 4.8.1.1 Oppose

    Use this domain for words referring to opposing something that you think is wrong.

    Related domains: 
    4.3.4.3.1 Compete with
    OMC Codes: 
    578 Ingroup Antagonisms
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39 Hostility, Strife
    39E Strife, Struggle
  • What words refer to opposing something?
    oppose, be opposed to, be against, anti-
  • What words refer to something someone does to show he is opposed to something?
    objection, opposition, hostility, antagonism,
  • What words refer to saying that you are opposed to something?
    object to, voice opposition to, express opposition to, raise objections,
  • What words refer to someone who opposes something?
    opponent, the opposition, enemy, foe,
  • What words describe someone who opposes something?
    opposing, hostile, antagonistic, opposing,

    • 4.8.2 Fight

    Use this domain for words referring to fighting someone. The words in this domain describe a situation in which two people or groups of people fight each other over something or in order to reach some goal. A fight can use words, various kinds of weapons, or other actions. For fights that only use words use the domain
    'Quarrel'.

    Related domains: 
    3.5.1.6.2 Quarrel
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    55B To Fight
  • What words refer to enemies fighting?
    fight, have a fight, get into a fight, fighting, battle, brawl, bully, clash, come to blows, confront, duel, engage (the enemy), face (an enemy), feud, jostle, joust, oppose, scuffle, set-to, spar, skirmish, squabble, strive, struggle, tussle, war, wrestle, be in the fray, go on the warpath,
  • What words refer to a fight?
    affray, altercation, battle (n), bout, combat, conflict, contest, crisis, duel (n), feud (n), gunfight, row, shootout, showdown, skirmish, spat, squabble, strife, struggle (n), tiff, war (n),
  • What words refer to a fight between a few people?
    fight (n), brawl (n), fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee, scrap, scuffle (n),
  • What words refer to a fight between many people?
    fighting, battle, clash (n), confrontation,
  • What words refer to a fight that neither side can win?
    stalemate, standoff,
  • What words refer to someone causing a fight?
    arouse, challenge, embroil, fan the flames, goad, incite, instigate, provoke, rally, rouse, spur, stir up,
  • What words refer to someone who is fighting?
    fighter, hooligan,

    • 4.8.2.1 Fight for something good

    Use this domain for words referring to fighting for something good.

  • What words refer to fighting for something good?
    fight for, work for, campaign, champion, be a champion of,
  • What words refer to the process of fighting for something good?
    fight (n) for, struggle for, battle, campaign for, crusade for, drive

    • 4.8.2.2 Fight against something bad

    Use this domain for words referring to fighting against something bad.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39C Resistance
  • What words refer to fighting against something bad?
    fight, fight against, put up a fight, combat, wage war on, campaign, launch a campaign,
  • What words refer to fighting against someone who is trying to do something bad?
    fight, fight against, fight back, put up a fight, resist, resistance, put up a resistance, meet with resistance, stand up to, make a stand, take a stand, hold out against, hold your ground, not be moved, be unyielding, not give in, defend your ground, oppose, opposing, opposition, react, withstand
  • What words refer to the process of fighting against something bad?
    fight (n) against, struggle against, battle against, campaign against, crusade against,

    • 4.8.2.3 Attack

    Use this domain for words referring to attacking someone--to begin fighting someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39J Attack
  • What words refer to attacking someone?
    attack, lead an attack, the attack fell on, assault, assail, charge, come at, drive, force your way, go for, lay into, make a run on, rush, sail into, set upon, strike, confront, penetrate defenses, be on the offense
  • What words refer to attacking in war?
    attack, invade, storm, raid, besiege, bombard,
  • What words refer to surrounding an enemy?
    surround, encircle, envelope, encirclement, encircling movement, envelopment,
  • What words refer to an attack?
    attack (n), assault, charge (n), onrush, rush (n), strike (n),
  • What words refer to an attack in war?
    attack (n), assault (n), foray, invasion, incursion, strike (n), push, raid (n), offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, aggression, ambush (n), sally, siege, sortie, penetration,
  • What words refer to a person or group that attacks?
    attacker, attacking force, aggressor, assailant, invader, invasion force,
  • What words refer to the person or place that is attacked?
    victim, target, be under attack
  • What words describe a person or place that is easy to attack?
    vulnerable, sitting duck, be an easy target, open to attack
  • What words refer to starting to fight?
    launch an attack, mount an attack, start a fight, pick a fight, be spoiling for a fight, looking for a fight, challenge (someone to fight),
  • What words describe an attack that was not caused by an earlier action?
    unprovoked,
  • What words refer to attacking someone who has attacked you?
    counter-attack, hit back, retaliate, strike back,

    • 4.8.2.3.1 Ambush

    Use this domain for words related to ambushing someone--to attacking someone without warning.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39K Ambush
  • What words refer to ambushing someone?
    ambush, ambuscade, bushwhack, jump, lie in wait for, mug, pounce, strike, turn on, waylay,
  • What words refer to an ambush?
    ambush (n), mugging, strike (n), sneak attack, surprise attack,
  • What words refer to a person who ambushes someone?
    ambusher, bushwhacker,

    • 4.8.2.4 Defend

    Use this domain for words related to defending someone from attack.

    Related domains: 
    4.7.5.4 Defend against accusation
  • What words refer to defending yourself from attack?
    defend, fight back, hit back at, put up a fight, struggle against, resist, self-defense,
  • What words refer to defending someone from attack?
    defend, come to someone's defense, in defense of, in someone's defense, guard, protect, safeguard, shield, stand up for, stick up for,
  • What words refer to successfully defending yourself or someone?
    beat back, beat off, drive off, hold out against, fend off, fight off, fling back, repel, repulse,
  • What words refer to defense?
    defense, resistance,
  • What words refer to a person who defends?
    defender, guard, sentinel, lookout, watchman
  • What words describe someone who cannot defend himself?
    defenseless
  • What words describe something you do or use to defend yourself?
    defensive, protective,
  • What words refer to a place easier to defend?
    fortify, entrench, dig in,

    • 4.8.2.5 Revenge

    Use this domain for words related to revenge--to do something bad to someone because they did something bad to you.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39F Revenge
  • What words refer to getting revenge?
    revenge, get revenge, take revenge, in revenge, avenge, get back at, get even with, pay back, repay, requite, retaliate, in retaliation, retribution, wreak vengeance, I'll get you for this, be out to get,
  • What words refer to revenge?
    revenge, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, tit-for-tat, vendetta, vengeance,
  • What words refer to a person who gets revenge?
    avenger, nemesis,
  • What words describe someone who wants to get revenge?
    vengeful, vindictive,
  • What words refer to a situation in which both people have done something bad to each other?
    be even, be quits,
  • What words describe something done in revenge?
    retributive,

    • 4.8.2.6 Riot

    Use this domain for words related to a riot--when lots of people are fighting and breaking the law.

    Related domains: 
    3.2.5.4.2 Protest
    OMC Codes: 
    579 Brawls, Riots and Banditry
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39H Riot
  • What words refer to rioting?
    riot (v), loot, disturb the peace, go on a frenzy, go on a rampage, be in an uproar, run amuck,
  • What words refer to a riot?
    riot (n), civil disobedience, civil disturbance, clash, commotion, confrontation, disorder, disorderly conduct, disturbance, frenzy, furor, melee, outbreak, rampage, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, uproar
  • What words refer to people who are rioting?
    rioter, mob, rabble,
  • What words describe people who are rioting?
    frenetic, wild,
  • What words describe a situation or actions when people are rioting?
    riotous, convulsive, disorderly, tumultuous, turbulent,

    • 4.8.2.7 Betray

    Use this domain for words related to betraying someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37G Hand Over, Betray
  • What words refer to betraying someone to his enemies?
    betray, double-cross, stab in the back, sell out, sell someone down the river,
  • What words refer to handing someone over to his enemies?
    hand over, deliver,
  • What words refer to telling secrets to an enemy?
    blab, inform on, rat on, snitch, squeal, tattle,
  • What words refer to betraying your country?
    betray, turn traitor, collaborate, treason,
  • What words refer to the action of betraying someone?
    betrayal, sell-out, treachery, treason,
  • What words describe something someone does when betraying someone?
    treasonous (action), subversive (activity)
  • What words refer to a person who betrays someone?
    betrayer, collaborator, informant, informer, Judas, rat, renegade, saboteur, snitch, squealer, subversive, tattle-tale, traitor
  • What words describe someone who betrays someone?
    treacherous,

    • 4.8.2.8 Violent

    Use this domain for words related to being violent--a word describing someone who is likely to attack and injure or kill people.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    20A Violence
  • What words describe someone who is violent?
    violent, brutal, aggressive, vicious, savage, barbarous, bloodthirsty, barbaric
  • What words describe an animal that is violent?
    fierce, vicious, savage, ferocious,
  • What words describe something someone does that is violent?
    violent, violently, vicious, brutal, savage, ferocious, rough, bloody, forcible, stormy, barbarous,
  • What words describe a story that is about people doing violent things?
    violent, gory,
  • What words refer to a person who is violent?
    thug, brute, hooligan, hoodlum, animal, psychopath, lout,
  • What words refer to violent behavior?
    violence, aggression, brutality, savagery, ferocity, fierceness, force, fury, barbarity,
  • What words describe someone who is not violent?
    peaceful, non-violent

    • 4.8.2.9 Enemy

    Use this domain for words related to an enemy--someone you are fighting against.

  • What words refer to an enemy?
    enemy, the enemy, foe, adversary, hostile, opponent
  • What words refer to a group you are fighting against?
    opposition, the other side,
  • What words describe something belonging to the enemy?
    enemy (troops/action/tanks), hostile (forces/territory)

    • 4.8.3 War

    Use this domain for words related to war--fighting between countries.

    OMC Codes: 
    720 War
    726 Warfare
    721 Instigation of War
    722 Wartime Adjustments
    723 Strategy
    724 Logistics
    725 Tactics
    727 Aftermath of Combat
    729 War Veterans
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39 Hostility, Strife
    55 Military Activities
  • What words refer to war?
    war, warfare, fighting, civil war, conflict, armed conflict,
  • What words refer to fighting a war?
    fight a war, wage war, be at war, declare war, make war, go on the warpath, fight, clash,
  • What words refer to a time when armies fight?
    war, battle, campaign, engagement, fight, contest, clash, skirmish
  • What words refer to the place where a war is fought?
    battlefield, field of battle, theater of war, scene of the battle, front, front lines, flank, rear, war zone,
  • What words refer to strategy in war?
    strategy, tactics, hunker down, keep up the pressure, overwhelm, concentrate your forces, form a line, hold the line, break the line, reform, rally, morale, maintain morale, military discipline, supply, supply lines, control the battle, battlefield control, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, intelligence, propaganda,
  • What words refer to an army moving?
    deploy, maneuver, outmaneuver, flank, outflank, advance, charge, overrun, retreat, withdraw
  • What words refer to a person who fights on your side?
    ally
  • What words refer to a person who wants to fight a war?
    warmonger, militarist, hawk,
  • What words describe a person or country that wants to fight a war?
    warlike,
  • What words describe countries that are at war?
    warring
  • What words refer to someone who is hurt or killed in a war?
    casualty, missing in action,

    • 4.8.3.1 Defeat

    Use this domain for words related to defeating someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39L Conquer
  • What words refer to defeating an army or enemy in war?
    defeat, annihilate, beat, conquer, crush, humble, kayo, lick, master, nip, outmaneuver, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, prevail over, rebuff, reduce, rout, seize, subdue, subject, subjugate, thrash, trample, tread, triumph, vanquish, whip, bring someone to his knees, scatter, gain ground, give someone a beating,
  • What words refer to defeating someone in a game or other competition?
    beat, defeat, outplay, be more than match for,
  • What words refer to defeating someone easily?
    rout, thrash, skunk, smash, slaughter, clobber, hammer, lick, trounce,
  • What words describe a complete victory?
    crushing, overwhelmingly,
  • What words refer to defeating someone by using your intelligence?
    outwit, outsmart, be too clever for
  • What words refer to the defeat of an enemy?
    defeat (n), rout, beating, conquest, discomfiture, drubbing, subjection, triumph, victory,
  • What words refer to the person who defeats the enemy?
    conqueror, vanquisher, victor,
  • What words describe the person who defeats the enemy?
    conquering, victorious,

    • 4.8.3.2 Win

    Use this domain for words related to winning a victory.

  • What words refer to winning a fight or war?
    win a fight, win a victory, gain the victory, be victorious, come out on top, prevail, win the day, carry the day, emerge victorious
  • What words refer to winning a game or other competition?
    win, come first, come in first, finish first, get in, first place
  • What words refer to winning easily?
    win easily, win hands down, sweep to victory, romp home, sweep the board
  • What words refer to almost losing?
    win by a narrow margin, scrape home, scrape by, squeak by, be a close-run thing
  • What words refer to a victory?
    victory, win, triumph, success, conquest
  • What words refer to an easy victory?
    easy win, walkover, landslide,
  • What words refer to a difficult victory?
    narrow victory, close call, hard won,
  • What words refer to the person or group that wins?
    winner, winning side, victor, champion, victorious army, champ,
  • What words refer to something that you win?
    prize, winnings, jackpot, trophy, cup,
  • What words refer to a situation during a fight or game when it looks like you will win?
    be winning, lead, be ahead, be in the lead, be out in front,
  • What words refer to the person or group that people think will win?
    frontrunner, strong contender, be the favorite, be in the running,

    • 4.8.3.3 Lose a fight

    Use this domain for words related to losing a fight.

  • What words refer to the process of losing a fight?
    lose a fight, lose a war, be defeated, suffer defeat, be beaten, meet your match, get the worst of it, come off the worst, take a beating, go down, fall, fall victim to,
  • What words refer to the defeat?
    defeat, loss, fall,
  • What words refer to the person or group that loses?
    loser, losing side, defeated army

    • 4.8.3.4 Surrender

    Use this domain for words related to surrendering to an enemy.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    39D Yielding
  • What words refer to surrendering to an enemy?
    surrender, sue for peace, armistice, concede defeat, accept defeat, admit defeat, give up, give in, yield, call it quits, unconditional surrender, lay down arms, turn yourself in,

    • 4.8.3.5 Prisoner of war

    Use this domain for words related to a prisoner of war.

    Related domains: 
    4.7.7.3 Imprison
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    55E Prisoner of War
  • What words refer to a prisoner of war?
    prisoner of war, captive
  • What words refer to captivity?
    captivity,
  • What words refer to a person captured in war?
    captive, prisoner of war
  • What words refer to being captured?
    capture, take captive, captured,

    • 4.8.3.6 Military organization

    Use this domain for words related to military organizations.

    OMC Codes: 
    700 Armed Forces
    701 Military Organization
    702 Recruitment and Training
    703 Discipline and Morale
    704 Ground Combat Forces
    705 Supply and Commissariat
    708 Auxiliary Corps
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    55C Army
  • What words refer to all of the soldiers of a country?
    the military, the armed forces,
  • What words refer to a military organization?
    military organization, branch of the military, the services,
  • What words refer to a group of soldiers?
    troops, force, unit,
  • What types of military units are there?
    battery, cavalry, cohort, detachment, detail, guard, host, legion, palace guard,
  • What words describe something belonging to the military?
    military,

    • 4.8.3.6.1 Army

    Use this domain for words related to the army.

    OMC Codes: 
    704 Ground Combat Forces
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    55C Army
  • What words refer to the army?
    the army,
  • What words refer to a group of soldiers in the army?
    army, band,
  • What types of army units are there?
    squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corps, army, army group,
  • What words describe something belonging to the army?
    army,

    • 4.8.3.6.2 Navy

    Use this domain for words related to the navy.

    OMC Codes: 
    706 Navy
  • What words refer to the navy?
    the navy, naval forces,
  • What words refer to soldiers assigned to the navy?
    sailor, marine, the marines, navy flyer,
  • What types of naval units are there?
    detachment, squadron, task force, fleet, flotilla,
  • What words describe something belonging to the navy?
    naval,

    • 4.8.3.6.3 Air force

    Use this domain for words related to the air force.

    OMC Codes: 
    707 Air Forces
  • What words refer to the air force?
    the air force,
  • What types of air force units are there?
    flight, squadron, air fleet, formation,
  • What words describe something belonging to the air force?
    air,
  • What words refer to a soldier in the air force?
    airman, pilot, wingman,

    • 4.8.3.6.4 Soldier

    Use this domain for words related to a soldier.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    55D Soldiers, Officers
  • What words refer to a soldier?
    soldier, combatant, warrior, volunteer, conscript,
  • What are the military ranks?
    rank, enlisted man, noncommissioned officer, commissioned officer, officer, commanding officer, commander, commandant, rank and file,
  • What are the military ranks in the army?
    infantryman, private, buck private, corporal, sergeant, warrant officer, lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, general, field marshal,
  • What are the military ranks in the navy?
    sailor, marine, seaman, ensign, petty officer, mate, captain, admiral,
  • What are the military ranks in the air force?
    airman,
  • What kinds of special soldiers are there?
    military police, cavalryman, horseman, spearman, legionnaire, centurion,
  • What words refer to a person who is not a soldier?
    civilian, non-combatant,

    • 4.8.3.6.5 Spy

    Use this domain for words related to a spy.

  • What do spies do?
    spy, spy on, spy for, conduct espionage, conduct covert operations, collect information, gather intelligence, betray secrets
  • What words refer to the activity of spying?
    espionage, counter espionage, covert operations, intelligence gathering
  • What is a person called who spies?
    spy, agent, double agent, informant, informer, source
  • What is a group of spies called?
    spy ring, intelligence agency, intelligence community

    • 4.8.3.6.6 Fort

    Use this domain for words related to a fort.

  • What words refer to a fort?
    fort, fortress, base, castle, bunker, post,
  • What words refer to a place that is made into a fort for a short time?
    fortification, fortified position, prepared position, camp,
  • What words refer to a hole dug in the ground to protect soldiers?
    foxhole, trench,
  • What words refer to the parts of a fort?
    tower, barracks, dungeon, keep, moat, gatehouse, turret, blockhouse,
  • What words refer to a wall around a fort?
    wall, palisade, rampart,
  • What words refer to things place around a fort to keep enemies away?
    barbed wire, obstacles, mine,
  • What words refer to making a fort?
    fortify, entrench, strengthen, dig in,

    • 4.8.3.7 Weapon, shoot

    Use this domain for words related to a weapon and using a weapon.

    OMC Codes: 
    411 Weapons
    710 Military Technology
    711 Military Engineering
    712 Military Installations
    713 Ordnance
    714 Uniform and Accouterment
    715 Military Vehicles
    716 Naval Vessels
    717 Military Aircraft
    718 Special Military Equipment
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6G Weapons and Armor
    55A To Arm
  • What general words refer to a weapon?
    weapon, weaponry, arms, armament, munitions, ordnance,
  • What words refer to a group of weapons?
    armory, arsenal, battery
  • What types of guns are there?
    gun, firearm, rifle, pistol, revolver, repeater, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, smoothbore, machinegun,
  • What are the parts of a gun?
    holster, trigger, muzzle, chamber, barrel, stock, bolt, bayonet, bore, breech, bullet, butt, hammer, musket, safety, sight,
  • What types of bows are there?
    bow, arrow, crossbow, longbow
  • What are the parts of a bow?
    quiver, string, arrowhead, shaft, feather
  • What types of swords are there?
    sword, knife, bayonet, dagger, bolo, machete, rapier, saber, scimitar, stiletto,
  • What are the parts of a sword?
    hilt, blade, guard
  • What types of spears are there?
    spear, dart, javelin, pike,
  • What are the parts of a spear?
    shaft, tip
  • What types of axes and clubs are there?
    ax, axe, blackjack, club, halberd, hatchet, mace, tomahawk, truncheon,
  • What types of artillery are there?
    artillery, cannon, bazooka, catapult, howitzer, mortar,
  • What types of bombs are there?
    bomb, grenade, mine, missile, rocket, atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb
  • What are the parts of a bomb?
    warhead, fuse, fin
  • What words refer to things shot from weapons?
    ammunition, bullet, projectile, shot, shell, cartridge, clip, pellet
  • What other types of weapons are there?
    blowgun, ram, sling, slingshot, whip
  • What words refer to using a weapon?
    archery, draw a pistol, draw a sword, draw a bow, fit an arrow, raise a gun, aim, load, stab, hurl a spear, swing an ax, drop a bomb, stick a knife into someone, bludgeon, whip (v)
  • What words refer to shooting a weapon?
    shoot (a gun), shoot at someone, shot, shell, fire, launch, aim, volley,
  • What types of armor are there?
    armor, shield, helmet, breastplate, greaves, buckler, corselet, mail, panoply, plate, plating, bullet proof vest, visor,
  • What words describe weapons?
    defensive, offensive, protective, deadly, weapon of mass destruction, conventional

    • 4.8.3.8 Plunder

    Use this domain for words related to plundering--stealing something from an enemy during a war.

  • What words refer to plundering?
    plunder, loot, despoil, pillage, sack, ransack, strip, rifle, forage, maraud, raid, piracy
  • What words refer to someone who plunders?
    plunderer, looter, forager, marauder, raider, pirate
  • What words refer to plunder?
    plunder, booty, loot, spoils

    • 4.8.4 Peace

    Use this domain for words related to peace--when people or countries are not fighting.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88N Peaceful Behavior
  • What words refer to being at peace?
    peace, peacetime, be at peace with, peaceful,
  • What words refer to the state of peace or the lack of fighting between people?
    concord, social harmony
  • What words describe the state of peace?
    peaceful, harmonious
  • What words refer to becoming peaceful?
    become peaceful, pacify, pacification
  • What words refer to keeping the peace?
    keep the peace, peacekeeping force

    • 4.8.4.1 Rebuke

    Use this domain for words related to rebuking someone--to tell someone that he has done something wrong.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33T' Rebuke
  • What words refer to someone telling another that he has done wrong?
    rebuke, chew out, reprimand, scold, reprove, excoriate, censor, verbal abuse, yell at, lecture, call on the carpet, lay out, tell off

    • 4.8.4.2 Make an appeal

    Use this domain for words related to making an appeal.

  • What words refer to one person asking another to do what is good?
    make an appeal, appeal to, entreat
  • What words refer to someone urging another to do what is good?
    exhort, encourage, encouragement

    • 4.8.4.3 Appease

    Use this domain for words related to appeasing someone.

  • What words refer to someone giving something to another to cause him to do something?
    bribe, appease, pacify, give in to demands
  • What words refer to this act or practice?
    bribery, appeasement, pacification
  • What words refer to the gift?
    bribe

    • 4.8.4.4 Negotiate

    Use this domain for words related to negotiating with someone.

  • What words refer to two people trying to reach an agreement?
    negotiate, try to reach an agreement, discuss terms
  • What words refer to the process two people trying to reach an agreement?
    negotiation, discussion

    • 4.8.4.5 Renounce claim, concede

    Use this domain for words related to renouncing a claim.

  • What words refer to renouncing a claim?
    renounce claim, concede, relinquish, cede, no contest, concession, disclaim, disclaimer

    • 4.8.4.6 Repent

    Use this domain for words related to repenting.

    Related domains: 
    4.3.8 Change behavior
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    41E Change Behavior
  • What words indicate that a person recognizes he has done wrong?
    feel convicted, recognize your sin, realize one has done wrong, regret
  • What words indicate that a person has decided to change his behavior?
    repent, have a change of heart, reverse your behavior, reform, go straight
  • What words refer to a decision to change?
    repentance, reformation, reversal, change of heart
  • What words refer to an admission of wrong?
    admit wrong, confess, acknowledge wrong, take something back (that you said),
  • What words refer to a request for forgiveness?
    apologize, apology, apologetic, ask forgiveness
  • What words refer to an effort to make up for doing wrong?
    make amends, make up for, set things right, make restitution, pay back what was taken, return stolen goods
  • What do people say when they ask for forgiveness?
    Sorry! Excuse me. I'm sorry. Forgive me.

    • 4.8.4.6.1 Request forgiveness

    Use this domain for words related to asking for forgiveness.

  • What words refer to requesting forgiveness?
    ask forgiveness, sue for peace, seek pardon, beg for mercy

    • 4.8.4.7 Forgive

    Use this domain for words related to forgiving someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    40B Forgiveness
  • What words refer to forgiving someone?
    forgive, pardon, release, restore to favor, clear your record, have mercy on, wipe the slate clean, reassure, accept, accept an apology, overlook a wrong, cancel a debt

    • 4.8.4.8 Make peace

    Use this domain for words related to making peace--to try to prevent or end a war.

    OMC Codes: 
    728 Peacemaking
  • What words refer to trying to prevent or end a war?
    keep the peace, peace-keeping, mediate between,
  • What words refer to ending a war with your enemies?
    settle dispute, end hostilities, restore harmony, pacify

    • 4.8.4.8.1 Stop fighting

    Use this domain for words related to stopping fighting.

  • What words refer to stopping fighting?
    stop fighting, cease hostilities, end adversity, make peace, make amends, apologize, apology, reconcile, reconciliation, make up, disengage, settle, peace offering, pacify, appease, quell, tranquilize, neutralize, harmonize, harmonious
  • What words refer to talking about stopping fighting?
    negotiate, negotiations, entreat,
  • What words refer to an agreement to stop fighting?
    ceasefire, truce, armistice, peace treaty,

    • 4.8.4.9 Reconcile

    Use this domain for words related to reconciling with someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    40A Reconciliation
    40 Reconciliation, Forgiveness
  • What words refer to enemies becoming reconciled?
    make amends, reconcile, ameliorate, restore, make up, make peace, pacify

    • 4.9 Religion

    Use this domain for general words referring to religion and the supernatural.

    OMC Codes: 
    770 Religious Beliefs
    771 General Character of Religion
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    12 Supernatural Beings and Powers
  • What words refer to the system of belief and practice related to God?
    religion, religious system, faith
  • What words refer to what is beyond our senses or ability?
    supernatural, magic, miracle, miraculous, paranormal
  • What words describe something having to do with religion?
    religious, sacred, spiritual
  • What words refer to those areas of life outside of religion?
    secular, profane
  • What words refer to the world of gods and spirits?
    spirit world, spiritual realm, the supernatural, the unseen

    • 4.9.1 God

    Use this domain for words related to God--the supreme being in the universe. Each theological system will have different beliefs concerning the existence and nature of God. Our purpose here is to collect and define the terms used to refer to the supreme deity. If there is no such person in the theological system, then use this domain for other terms for the pantheon of gods, ultimate reality, nirvana, and similar concepts. However most theological systems, even atheism, have the concept of a supreme God and use words to refer to him.

  • What words refer to the supreme being in the universe?
    God, the Lord, Yahweh, Elohim, Allah, Theos, Deus, Sky God, supreme being, supreme deity
  • What words refer to what people believe about God?
    theology, monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, atheism
  • What words describe something to do with God?
    divine,

    • 4.9.2 Supernatural being

    Use this domain for words referring to supernatural beings--gods, spirits, other types of beings, which normally cannot be seen and do not belong to this world. Some people accept the existence of certain supernatural beings and not others. Mythological beings are those that were believed in during previous times but that are no longer believed in. Fictional beings are those that no one has ever believed in. An indication of whether most people believe in the supernatural being should be put in the definition.

    OMC Codes: 
    776 Spirits and Gods
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    12 Supernatural Beings and Powers
    12A Supernatural Beings
  • What general words refer to supernatural beings?
    supernatural being, spirit
  • What words refer to lesser gods?
    god, goddess, the gods, pantheon, deity,
  • What types of good supernatural beings are there?
    angel, angelic being, cherub, seraph, saint
  • What types of evil supernatural beings are there?
    demon, devil, Satan, the Devil, Beelzebub
  • What words refer to the spirit of a dead person?
    spirit, ghost, specter, apparition, phantom, shade, ghoul
  • What words refer to supernatural beings that are considered to be mythological or fictional and not real?
    Santa Claus, elf, fairy, giant, dwarf, sprite, genie, dragon, monster, Cyclops, vampire, alien
  • What words describe something like or related to a supernatural being?
    divine, angelic, demonic, Satanic, devilish, diabolical, ghost like, ghoulish, monstrous, alien,

    • 4.9.3 Theology

    Use this domain for words related to theology--the study of God and what people believe about God.

    OMC Codes: 
    779 Theological Systems
    770 Religious Beliefs
    772 Cosmology
    773 Mythology
    774 Animism
    775 Eschatology
  • What words refer to the study of God and religion?
    theology,
  • What words refer to something you believe about God?
    doctrine, tenet, dogma, belief,
  • What words refer to disagreement over doctrine?
    heterodoxy, sect, denomination, dissent
  • What words refer to foolish or ignorant beliefs about religion?
    superstition

    • 4.9.3.1 Sacred writings

    Use this domain for words related to sacred writings. Examples are only given for the Christian sacred writings. However you should include words referring to the holy books of all religions .

  • What words refer to sacred writings?
    sacred writings, Scripture, Bible, the Good Book, Gospel
  • What words refer to a part of the sacred writings?
    chapter, verse, text, Old/New Testament, Law, Prophets, Gospels, Epistles, Apocalypse
  • What words refer to God's role in producing sacred writings?
    inspire, inspiration, revelation
  • What words describe the sacred writings or a text from the sacred writings?
    inspired, holy, scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic, apostolic
  • What words describe whether or not a book should be considered a part of the sacred writings?
    canon, canonical, apocryphal
  • What words refer to a book that is revered but not considered part of the sacred writings?
    Apocrypha
  • What words refer to the interpretation of sacred writings?
    interpretation, exegesis
  • What words refer to a book that interprets the sacred writings?
    commentary

    • 4.9.4 Miracle, supernatural power

    Use this domain for words related to miracles--the use of supernatural power to do something good.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    12B Supernatural Powers
  • What words refer to supernatural power?
    supernatural power, miraculous power, might, force, omnipotence, almighty, all-powerful,
  • What words refer to performing a miracle?
    perform a miracle, produce a miracle, do a miracle
  • What words refer to the event of a miracle?
    miracle, miraculous event, sign, wonder, magic
  • What words describe a miracle?
    miraculous,
  • What words refer to a person who can perform miracles?
    miracle worker, prophet

    • 4.9.4.1 Sorcery

    Use this domain for words related to sorcery--the use of supernatural power to do something bad.

    OMC Codes: 
    789 Magic
    754 Sorcery
    755 Magical and Mental Therapy
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53J Magic
  • What words refer to doing something using sorcery?
    practice sorcery, do magic, work magic, cast a spell, put a spell on, put a curse on, bewitch, conjure, invoke, enchant, bedevil, entrance (v), mesmerize, wave a wand, jinx,
  • What words refer to the practice of sorcery?
    sorcery, magic (n), witchcraft, black magic, voodoo, voodooism, witchery, wizardry, occult, necromancy,
  • What words refer to something that someone does using sorcery?
    spell, curse, hex, enchantment, charm, incantation,
  • What is a person called who practices sorcery?
    sorcerer, magician, witch, wizard, shaman, witchdoctor, conjuror, necromancer, warlock, charmer, medicine man, alchemist, medium,
  • What words describe someone or something that can do magic?
    have magical powers, magic (adj), magical, supernatural, occult, mystic, weird,
  • What words describe someone who has been bewitched?
    charmed, bewitched, spellbound, haunted,
  • What words refer to protecting someone from sorcery?
    ward off,
  • What things are used when performing sorcery?
    charm, amulet, evil eye, talisman, fetish, wand, rod, divining rod, magic ring, philosopher's stone, magic carpet, cauldron,
  • What words are used when performing sorcery?
    abracadabra, open sesame,
  • What words refer to malevolent supernatural power?
    malevolent power, evil force, Satanic force, demonic power, black magic

    • 4.9.4.2 Demon possession

    Use this domain for words referring to demon possession--when a demon or spirit influences or controls the behavior of a person. Use this domain for all words related to the relationship between spirits and people, including communication between people and spirits. Also use this domain for words referring to casting out demons--causing a demon to stop influencing or controlling a person.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53K Exorcism
  • What words refer to being influenced or controlled by a demon?
    be possessed, be demonized, go into a trance,
  • What words refer to what demons do to people?
    possess, inhabit, demonize, torture, haunt, trouble
  • What words refer to casting out a demon?
    cast out a demon, exorcise, drive out, expel, deliver/free/release from demonic power/influence
  • What words refer to a person who casts out demons?
    exorcist

    • 4.9.4.3 Bless

    Use this domain for words related to blessing someone--saying something that causes something good to happen, or requests God to do something good to someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33C" Bless, Curse
  • What words refer to blessing someone?
    bless, pronounce a blessing, give a blessing, bestow a blessing, invoke,
  • What words refer to what is said in blessing?
    blessing, benediction,

    • 4.9.4.4 Curse

    Use this domain for words related to cursing someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33C" Bless, Curse
  • What words refer to cursing someone?
    curse, put/place a curse on, be under a curse, be cursed
  • What words refer to the curse place on someone?
    curse, anathema,

    • 4.9.4.5 Destiny

    Use this domain for words related to destiny--decisions and actions by God, spirits, or by impersonal forces that determine or influence what happens to a person.

    OMC Codes: 
    777 Luck and Chance
  • What words refer to the decisions God makes concerning what happens to a person?
    God's will, providence
  • What words refer to an impersonal force that determines what happens to a person?
    destiny, fate, fortune, luck, chance, throw of the dice
  • What words refer to something to which a person or thing is destined?
    destiny, fate

    • 4.9.4.6 Prophecy

    Use this domain for words referring to speaking for God, including foretelling the future through divine knowledge.

    Related domains: 
    3.2.7.3 Predict
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33A" Prophesy
    33X Foretell, Tell Fortunes
  • What words refer to being able to speak for God or deliver a message from God?
    prophesy, foretell the future, predict the future
  • What words refer to what is said?
    prophecy, prediction, prophetic utterance
  • What is a person called who speaks for God or foretells the future?
    prophet, prophetess
  • What words describe something said in prophecy?
    prophetic

    • 4.9.4.7 Omen, divination

    Use this domain for words related to supernatural knowledge.

    OMC Codes: 
    787 Revelation and Divination
  • What words refer to supernatural knowledge?
    supernatural knowledge, foreknowledge, supernatural insight, ability to interpret dreams,
  • What words refer to being able to divine secrets?
    divine, read the signs, foretell the future
  • What words refer to the practice of divining secrets?
    divination, palmistry, fortune telling, astrology
  • What is a person called who can divine secrets?
    diviner, fortuneteller, astrologer
  • What words describe someone who can divine secrets?
    clairvoyant,
  • What words refer to something showing what will happen in the future?
    augur, betoken, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, ominous, portend, prefigure, presage,
  • What words refer to something that shows or tells a secret?
    omen, sign, harbinger, portent, presage, foreshadowing, message from the beyond
  • What methods are used to divine secrets?
    interpret dreams, read palms, read tea leaves, read cards, read the stars, consult your horoscope, look into a crystal ball, play with a Ouija board, examine the entrails of an animal

    • 4.9.5 Practice religion

    Use this domain for words related to practicing religion.

    OMC Codes: 
    780 Religious Practices
    781 Religious Experience
    786 Ecstatic Religious Practices
    Orgies
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53 Religious Activities
    53A Religious Practice
  • What words refer to practicing religion?
    practice your religion, serve God

    • 4.9.5.1 Devout

    Use this domain for words related to being devout.

  • What words describe someone who practices his religion with devotion?
    devout, devoted, devotion, committed, pious, religious, zealous, saintly, holy
  • What words describe someone who is not devout?
    uncommitted, nominal, lukewarm

    • 4.9.5.2 Pray

    Use this domain for words related to praying--talking to God.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33M Pray
  • What words refer to praying to God?
    pray, talk to God, beseech
  • What words refer to prayer?
    prayer, supplication, intercession, petition, thanksgiving, grace, benediction
  • What actions or postures symbolize prayer?
    bow your head, kneel, fold your hands

    • 4.9.5.3 Worship

    Use this domain for personal expressions of devotion to God, in whatever ways the religion defines and expresses it.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53G Worship, Reverence
  • What words refer to relating to God or to the spirits?
  • What words refer to acts of worship toward God?
    worship, adore, revere, reverence, lift up your heart, pay homage
  • What words refer to the act of worship?
    worship, adoration, devotion, homage, service, reverence, veneration, deification, idolization
  • What actions or postures symbolize worship?
    bow, kneel, genuflect, prostrate oneself
  • What types of actions make up worship?
    prayer, singing hymns, praising God

    • 4.9.5.4 Religious ceremony

    Use this domain for words related to religious ceremonies.

    Related domains: 
    4.2.2.1 Ceremony
    OMC Codes: 
    796 Organized Ceremonial
    788 Ritual
    786 Ecstatic religious practices
    Orgies
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    33S Preach, Proclaim
  • What words refer to performing a religious ceremony?
    perform a religious ceremony, hold communion
  • What words refer to a religious ceremony?
    religious ceremony, worship service, church service, time of prayer, prayer meeting, Bible study, liturgy, invocation

    • 4.9.5.5 Offering, sacrifice

    Use this domain for words related to offering a sacrifice.

    OMC Codes: 
    782 Prayers and Sacrifices
    Propitiation
    782 Propitiation
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53B Offering, Sacrifice
  • What words refer to offering a sacrifice?
    sacrifice, offering, devotion, consecration
  • What words refer to what is sacrificed?
    sacrifice, offering, burnt offering, votive offering, gift
  • What words describe a sacrifice?
    sacrificial (giving, lamb), devoted, consecrated

    • 4.9.5.6 Religious purification

    Use this domain for words related to religious purification.

    OMC Codes: 
    783 Purification and Atonement
    Purification and Expiation
    783 Purification and Expiation
    688 Religious Offenses
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88C Holy, Pure
    53C Purify, Cleanse
    53D Defiled, Unclean, Common
    53E Baptize
  • What words refer to purifying someone or something for religious purposes?
    purify, purification, cleanse, cleansing, wash, washing, sprinkle, sprinkling, baptize, baptism,
  • What words describe something that has been purified?
    be pure, undefiled, unpolluted, washed, sprinkled
  • What words describe something that has not been purified?
    be impure, defiled, polluted, unwashed
  • What words refer to something that causes impurity?
    impurity, defilement, pollution

    • 4.9.5.6.1 Taboo

    Use this domain for words referring to things that are taboo--something to be avoided; a religious, social, or cultural restriction on behavior, as opposed to a government law.

    OMC Codes: 
    784 Avoidance and Taboo
  • What words refer to a cultural restriction on behavior?
    taboo, prohibition
  • What words refer to making something taboo?
    make taboo, forbid, prohibit, ban
  • What words describe something that is taboo?
    taboo, forbidden, prohibited, untouchable, inviolable, banned, off-limits, avoided

    • 4.9.5.7 Salvation

    Use this domain for the primary goal or goals of a religion, for instance in Christianity salvation from sin, death and Hell. Each religion has different beliefs about salvation. Our purpose here is not to preach or argue, but to list those words that people use to talk about this topic.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    21F Save in a Religious Sense
  • What words refer to what God does to save a person?
    save, salvation, sanctify, redeem, justify, regenerate
  • What words refer to a person who saves another?
    savior
  • What words refer to what a person does to be saved?
    believe, repent, return (to God), receive, work, earn

    • 4.9.5.8 Dedicate to religious use

    Use this domain for words related to dedicating someone or something to religious use.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53F Dedicate, Consecrate
  • What words refer to dedicating something to religious use?
    dedicate, consecrate, anoint, sanctify, devote, hallow, baptize, circumcise
  • What words describe something that has been dedicated?
    holy, consecrated, sanctified, sacred, devoted, baptized
  • What words describe something that has not been dedicated?
    unholy, common
  • What words refer to improperly using something that has been dedicated?
    desecrate

    • 4.9.5.9 Fasting

    Use this domain for words related to fasting--to not eat for a period of time.

    OMC Codes: 
    785 Asceticism
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53H Fasting
  • What words refer to not eating for a period of time?
    fast, deny (oneself)
  • What words refer to a person who denies himself for religious purposes?
    ascetic
  • What words refer to the general practice of denying oneself something?
    asceticism
  • What words refer to a time when a person fasts or denies himself in some other way?
    fast, Lent, Ramadan

    • 4.9.6 Heaven, hell

    Use this domain for words related to heaven and hell--the place where people go after they die.

    OMC Codes: 
    772 Cosmology
    775 Eschatology
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1C Regions Below the Surface of the Earth
  • What is the place or home of God called?
    Heaven, the highest heaven, the abode of God, the throne of God
  • What is the place called where dead people are?
    Hades, Sheol, the place of the dead, the grave, the other side, the beyond, underworld, nether world,
  • What is the place called where believers (good people) go when they die?
    heaven, paradise, your reward
  • What is the place called where unbelievers (bad people) go when they die?
    hell, the pit, fire and brimstone, eternal damnation
  • What words refer to going to heaven or hell?
    pass on, go to heaven, go to hell
  • What words describe something belonging to heaven or hell?
    celestial, heavenly, hellish

    • 4.9.6.1 Resurrection

    Use this domain for words related to resurrection--life after death, or living again after dying.

  • What words refer to coming back to life?
    come back to life, come back from the grave, come to life, resurrection
  • What words refer to causing someone to come back to life?
    resurrect, raise from the dead, bring back to life, bring back from the dead
  • What words refer to the condition or state of living forever?
    live forever, (have) eternal life, life everlasting, immortality, life after death,
  • What words refer to reincarnation?
    reincarnation, reincarnated,

    • 4.9.7 Religious organization

    Use this domain for words referring to official religions, groups within a religion, and religious meetings. Each religion will have different names for its groups. Answer each question for each religion.

    OMC Codes: 
    779 Theological Systems
    790 Ecclesiastical Organization
    794 Congregations
    795 Religious Denominations
    Sects
    797 Missions
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    11B Socio-Religious
  • What general words refer to an official religion?
    religion, faith
  • What are the names of the official religions?
    Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, animism, paganism,
  • What words refer to a group within a religion?
    sect, denomination, party,
  • What are the names of the sects?
    Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist
  • What words refer to a group of believers in a particular place?
    church, congregation, diocese, parish
  • What words refer to beginning to believe in a religion or changing from one religion to another?
    convert, conversion

    • 4.9.7.1 Religious person

    Use this domain for words referring to religious practitioners--people who practice a religion, who are members of the religion, believe in the religion, leaders of the religion, and followers of the religion. Each religion has its own terms for religious practitioners. List these terms separately for each religion. The examples given below are for the Christian religion.

    OMC Codes: 
    791 Magicians and Diviners
    792 Prophets and Ascetics
    Holy Men
    793 Priesthood
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    31J Be a Believer, Christian Faith
    53I Roles and Functions
  • What is a person called who believes in a religion?
    believer, member (of the faith), adherent, follower, practitioner
  • What is a person called who believes in the (Christian) religion?
    Christian, brother, fellow believer, saint
  • What is a leader of the (Christian-Protestant) religion called?
    pastor, minister, parson
  • What is a leader of the (Christian-Catholic) religion called?
    priest, father, bishop, archbishop, Cardinal, pope, man of the cloth
  • What words refer to the profession of being a religious leader?
    pastorate, priesthood, ministry
  • What words refers to all religious leaders?
    clergy
  • What words refer to followers of a religion who are not leaders?
    laity, layperson, flock

    • 4.9.7.2 Christianity

    Use this domain for words used in Christianity.

  • What words are used to talk about Christianity?
    Christian, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, the Father, the Son of God, the Holy Spirit, Lord, cross, crucify, crucifixion, resurrection, Bible, Biblical, Scripture, Old Testament, New Testament, Gospel, apostle, church, chapel, churchgoer, priest, vicar, minister, pastor, service, Communion, Mass, sacrament, baptize, baptism, christen, christening, Christian name, confession, Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, crucifix, make the sign of the cross, saint, patron saint, Roman Catholic, Catholic, Pope, papal, Orthodox Church, Reformation, Protestant Church, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian

    • 4.9.7.3 Islam

    Use this domain for words used in Islam.

  • What words are used to talk about Islam?
    Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Allah, Mohammed, the Prophet, Koran, Kaaba, mosque, sharia, Ramadan, hajj

    • 4.9.7.4 Hinduism

    Use this domain for words used in Hinduism.

  • What words are used to talk about Hinduism?
    Hinduism, Hindu, New Age, Vishnu, Vedic, guru, reincarnation

    • 4.9.7.5 Buddhism

    Use this domain for words used in Buddhism.

  • What words are used to talk about Buddhism?
    Buddhism, Buddhist, Buddha, temple, pagoda, nirvana, enlightenment, monk

    • 4.9.7.6 Judaism

    Use this domain for words used in Judaism.

  • What words are used to talk about Judaism?
    Judaism, Jew, Jewish, Israel, Torah, Mishna, rabbi, synagogue, kosher, Passover, Hanukkah, Messiah, Mosaic Law

    • 4.9.7.7 Animism

    Use this domain for words used in Animism--the belief in spirits.

    OMC Codes: 
    774 Animism
  • What words are used to talk about Animism?
    Animism, paganism,
  • What words refer to someone who believes in Animism?
    Animist, pagan,

    • 4.9.8 Religious things

    Use this domain for words related to a religious object.

    OMC Codes: 
    778 Sacred Objects and Places
  • What types of religious objects are there?
    altar, altar of sacrifice, altar of incense, censer, candle, church bells, totem pole,
  • What words refer to objects with supernatural power?
    amulet, charm, fetish
  • What words refer to clothes worn by priests and other religious people?
    (priest's) robes, habit, cloth, vestments, frock, cassock, cowl, hood, clerical collar, skullcap, surplice, miter,

    • 4.9.8.1 Idol

    Use this domain for words related to idols and their use.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6M Images and Idols
  • What words refer to an object that represents a god?
    idol, image, icon
  • What words refer to the practice of making and worshiping idols?
    idolatry

    • 4.9.8.2 Place of worship

    Use this domain for words related to places of worship. Each religion has different types of places of worship. These questions must be answered according to the practices of each religion and for each separate type of place.

    OMC Codes: 
    778 Sacred Objects and Places
    346 Religious and Educational Structures
  • What words refer to a place that is dedicated to God?
    house of God, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, shrine, god house, sanctuary, tabernacle,
  • What are the parts of a church?
    pew, altar, pulpit, choir loft, baptismal font, stained glass window, steeple
  • What are the parts of a temple?
    courtyard, holy place, holy of holies, altar, laver, lamp stand
  • Where are idols placed?
    god shelf, shrine
  • Where do religious leaders live?
    monastery, convent, parsonage

    • 4.9.9 Irreligion

    Use this domain for words related to thinking and acting against God or religion.

    OMC Codes: 
    798 Religious Intolerance
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    53L Sacrilege
  • What is a person called who does not believe in a religion?
    unbeliever, pagan, gentile, heathen, atheist, agnostic, irreligious, godless
  • What words refer to a religious group, which the official religion considers to be false?
    false religion, sect
  • What words refer to a belief, which the official religion considers to be false?
    heresy, heretical, heretic, false doctrine/teaching
  • What words refer to thinking against God?
    disbelieve, unbelief, lack of faith, doubt, skepticism, agnosticism, atheism, paganism
  • What words refer to speaking against God?
    blaspheme, scoff, profane, irreverent
  • What words refer to acting against God?
    sin, impiety, ungodly, godlessness, desecrate, sacrilege
  • What words describe someone who is against God?
    impious, irreligious, profane
  • What words refer to turning away from God?
    apostasy, backsliding, reprobate
  • What words refer to pretending to be religious?
    hypocrisy, hypocrite
  • What words refer to extreme beliefs that are evil?
    fanatic, fanaticism, bigot, bigotry
  • What words refer to religious practices that are done in ignorance?
    superstition
  • What words refer to allowing other people to practice their religion?
    tolerance, intolerance