de-emphasize



abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, belittle, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, damp, dampen, deaden, deprecate, depreciate, detract from,









   clattery - blaring, blatant, blustering, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, rowdy, sonorous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious,

   slurp - aspirate, beverage, breathe in, bumper, draft, dram, draw in, drench, drink, drinking, eating, engorgement, engulfment, gulp, gulping,

   striving - aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, battling, combat, competition, conflict, contending, contestant, contesting, counsel, desideratum, design, desire,

   ploy - art, artful dodge, artifice, backstairs influence, bag of tricks, bat, bender, binge, blind, bluff, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, catch,

   mistranslation - distortion, error, gloss, misapplication, misapprehension, misconception, misjudgement, misreading, misunderstanding, perversion, squeezing, torturing, twist, twisting ,

   included - comprehended, concerned, implicated, interested, involved ,

   extrovert - choleric, extroverted, introvert, melancholic, outgoing, phlegmatic, sanguine, schizoid ,

   far on - backward, behind, behind time, behindhand, late, slow ,

   perk - act, bonus, bumptious, cocky, conceited, dividend, earnings, function, gain, gains, get, gleaning, go, gross, hoard,

   contrariwise - across, again, against the grain, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war, athwart, back to back, backward, contra, contrary, counter, criss-cross, cross,