Term: non sequitur: a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: thumbscrew: instrument of torture that crushes the thumb
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: tomatillo: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: leer: a suggestive or sneering look or grin
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: cilium: a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: polysemy: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: natrix: water snakes; a cosmopolitan genus
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: inflectional morphology: the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: femoral vein: a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: rider: a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
Broader: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Unrelated: phagocytosis: process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection