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61detour — I noun alternate route, by pass, by passage, circuitous route, deflection, departure, deviation, deviation from a direct course, digression, diversion, excursion, indirect path, loop, roundabout course, temporary route, wrong course associated… …
62deviate — I verb aberrare, alter course, angle off, be at variance, be different, be distinguished from, be oblique, bear no resemblance, bear off, branch out, break bounds, break the pattern, change direction, clash, clash with, conflict with, contrast,… …
63turn — vi: to have a specified decisive factor used with on the first of the cases...turn ed on first amendment issues K. A. Cohen Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
64divagate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. stray, digress. See deviation, diffuseness. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking: deviate, digress, diverge, ramble, stray, wander.… …
65diverge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. separate, branch off, fork; sunder; divaricate, deviate; differ, vary, disagree; veer, swerve; detach; go off at a tangent; radiate. See difference, deviation, disagreement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1.… …
66maunder — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. digress, wander. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To digress] Syn. drift, stray, wander; see deviate , ramble 2 . 2. [To mumble] Syn. mutter, mouth, drivel; see mumble …
67veer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. swerve, shift; deviate; jibe, come about, yaw. See change, deviation. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. swerve, deviate, depart, digress, diverge, bend, turn, divert, deflect, sheer, avert, curve; see also… …
68Deviation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deviation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deviation deviation Sgm: N 1 swerving swerving &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 obliquation| obliquation| warp refraction Sgm: N 1 flection flection flexion …
69Diffuseness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Diffuseness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 diffuseness diffuseness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 amplification amplification &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 dilating dilating &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 verbosity verbosity verbiage …
70gradual — [16] Latin grādus ‘step’ has been a remarkably prolific source of English words. Beside grade [16] itself, it has contributed the derivatives gradation [16], gradient [19], gradual (from medieval Latin graduālis, literally ‘proceeding by steps’) …
