Relation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The manner in which two things may be associated. A member of one's family. The act of relating a story. A set of ordered tuples. Specifically, a set of ordered pairs. A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table. A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
Example sentence: Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Telling
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: having forcerevealing informationserving to convince
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of narration.The disclosure of information.Counting, numbering.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
Example sentence: I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.