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Words that mean roughly the same thing. Container and receptacle are synonyms.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

And then predictably, there was a long unprintable list of synonyms and phrases for various sex acts.
How Hitch & Amis Discovered Evil In My House|Peter Foges|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It gives you a mixture of sequential number questions, synonyms, and odd-one-out pictures.
Online Dating for Geniuses Only|Charlotte Lytton|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All of them are synonyms for the stuff you can smell outside the Plaza Hotel.
De Blasio Whipped by Horse Lobby|Josh Robin|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In those first pages, I feared I was going to run out of synonyms for “visceral” while trying to write this review.
The Profanity of War: Phil Klay’s “Redeployment”|Brian Castner|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The first such assumption is that ‘women’ and ‘feminism’ are synonyms.
The Masculine Mystique|R. Tod Kelly|October 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Synonyms are several words or various phrases which are the precise equivalents of each other.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
Ordinary minds cannot find the only right expression, and, therefore, use synonyms.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
A special feature of the work in view of its destination is the placing of numerous synonyms along with each word.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
Besides, at that speech day when you were giving away the prizes you said there were no synonyms in the English language.
The Circle|W. Somerset Maugham
Six lines further the shining features change into "shining qualities," as though features and qualities were synonyms.
Flowers of Freethought|George W. Foote