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This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word. INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used. Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.
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What do you call a person who is easily replaced?
A pawn! A peon! A grunt! A stooge! A tool! A commodity! Nameless! Faceless! Anonymous! Unappreciated! Irrelevant! Unnecessary! Undifferentiated!
But if you were writing a movie script and you wanted …
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What's the term for an antonym of a continuum?
I would suggest analogous here, but maybe I misunderstood your question.
"A word that would run along a different continuum" makes me think of analogue or counterpart.
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Opposite of "prediction"
Retrospective (or retrospection), description, report, account, log. All these speak of recording events in the past.
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Subsequent, Consequent... Presequent?
Precedent also works as an adjective.
The rain is precedent to the wet grass.
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A better way to phrase "his masterwork" or "his epic"?
To my mind, magnum opus stands far above the rest as the term one would use in this context.
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"Eat" is to "feed" as "drink" is to what?
I have heard "quench" used this way:
When I was hungry, you fed me...
When I was thirsty, you quenched me...
From a song we used to sing at the Christian school.
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"Visualized" equivalent adjective for audio
I agree with the poster who suggested audiation, as that is the process of imagining sound.
In response to your second edit, there is another very appropriate and widely accepted word for representi …
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