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Accept

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Verb group 8

Admit 84% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Admit 84% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Include 84% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Include 84% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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Receive 84% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Receive 84% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 24

Abide 76% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Brook 76% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Endure 76% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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React 76% connected

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Respond 76% connected

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Stomach 76% connected

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suit 76% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Tolerate 76% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Manner of action 34

Acknowledge 76% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Admit 76% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Adopt 76% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

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Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Approbate 76% connected

Approved.

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Believe 76% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Borrow 76% connected

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the oppos…

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Embrace 76% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

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Espouse 76% connected

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Honor 76% connected

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

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Honour 76% connected

a woman's virtue or chastity

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Invite 76% connected

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Observe 76% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Profess 76% connected

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Recognize 76% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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Reconcile 76% connected

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to r…

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Relent 76% connected

To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.

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Resign 76% connected

To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…

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Respect 76% connected

To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Soften 76% connected

To make soft or more soft.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Succumb 76% connected

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Undertake 76% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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Welcome 76% connected

Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Derivationally related 14

Acceptance 74% connected

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acce…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acceptance 74% connected

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acce…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Acceptant 74% connected

Accepting; receiving.

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Acceptant 74% connected

Accepting; receiving.

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Acceptation 74% connected

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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Acceptation 74% connected

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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Acceptive 74% connected

Fit for acceptance.

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Acceptive 74% connected

Fit for acceptance.

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Adoption 74% connected

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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Adoption 74% connected

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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Credence 74% connected

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

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Credence 74% connected

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

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Toleration 74% connected

The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

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Toleration 74% connected

The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

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Synonym 7

Admit 92% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Assume 92% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consent 92% connected

To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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have 92% connected

of Have

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Swallow 92% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 4

Decline 94% connected

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Decline 94% connected

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Reject 94% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Reject 94% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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