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26 entries under idea topic. ×
| basic idea(expression, sense, purpose, main) | |
| central idea(expression, sense, purpose, main) | |
| essential idea(expression, sense, purpose, main) | |
| fundamental idea(expression, sense, purpose, main) | |
| author's opinions(expression, convey, writing) | |
| basic concept(expression, sense, main) | |
| bee in the bonnet(expression, idiom, thought, obsessive) | |
| clue(noun, important, thesis) | |
| compulsive idea(expression, think, obsessive) | |
| core message(expression, sense, main) | |
| emotional foreshadow(expression, convey, writing) | |
| feelings about(expression, convey, writing) | |
| fundamental concept(expression, sense, main) | |
| imperative conception(expression, think, obsessive) | |
| insistent idea(expression, think, obsessive) | |
| key idea(expression, sense, main) | |
| keynote idea(expression, sense, main) | |
| main thrust of the work(expression, sense, main) | |
| motif(noun, important, thesis) | |
| motive(noun, important, thesis) |
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