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Activity

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.

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Ablactation 76% connected

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.

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Absorption 76% connected

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the…

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Acidification 76% connected

The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

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Acting 76% connected

of Act

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actus reus 76% connected

The act or omission that forms the physical part of a crime.

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Aeration 76% connected

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.

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Agency 76% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Assistance 76% connected

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Bag 76% connected

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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Behavior 76% connected

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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Behaviour 76% connected

(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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Breath 76% connected

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous…

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Breathing 76% connected

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Burst 76% connected

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Business 76% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Buzz 76% connected

To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low…

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Calibration 76% connected

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the dete…

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Capture 76% connected

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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Ceremony 76% connected

Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the pe…

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Clotting 76% connected

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Coagulation 76% connected

The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous co…

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Concealing 76% connected

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Concealment 76% connected

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

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Concretion 76% connected

The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

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Condensation 76% connected

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Consumption 76% connected

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

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Continuance 76% connected

A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.

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Continuation 76% connected

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Convection 76% connected

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

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Creation 76% connected

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Crying 76% connected

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Curdling 76% connected

of Curdle

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Curing 76% connected

of Cure

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Decay 76% connected

To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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Delectation 76% connected

Great pleasure; delight.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Diaphoresis 76% connected

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

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Didactics 76% connected

The art or science of teaching.

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Diffusion 76% connected

The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Dish 76% connected

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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Disintegration 76% connected

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.

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Dismantling 76% connected

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Dissipation 76% connected

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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Dissolution 76% connected

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

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Distillation 76% connected

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

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Distillment 76% connected

Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

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Disturbance 76% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Diversion 76% connected

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

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Doings 76% connected

of Doing

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Domesticity 76% connected

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Dynamism 76% connected

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

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Education 76% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Effervescence 76% connected

Alt. of Effervescency

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Endeavor 76% connected

To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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Energizing 76% connected

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Enjoyment 76% connected

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of…

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Eructation 76% connected

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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Eruption 76% connected

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.…

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Exercise 76% connected

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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Expectoration 76% connected

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

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Expelling 76% connected

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Extinction 76% connected

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

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Extraction 76% connected

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

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Extravasation 76% connected

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

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Festering 76% connected

of Fester

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Filtration 76% connected

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Flocculation 76% connected

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Fossilization 76% connected

The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.

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Fun 76% connected

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Grooming 76% connected

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Hardening 76% connected

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Healing 76% connected

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Hiding 76% connected

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Hum 76% connected

To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

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Hunt 76% connected

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

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Hunting 76% connected

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Hypostasis 76% connected

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

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Ingestion 76% connected

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

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Instruction 76% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Intake 76% connected

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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Invigoration 76% connected

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

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Job 76% connected

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Lachrymation 76% connected

The act of shedding tears; weeping.

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Lactation 76% connected

A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

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Lamentation 76% connected

The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

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Last 76% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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Laughter 76% connected

A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment,…

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Leach 76% connected

See 3d Leech.

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Leaching 76% connected

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Leadership 76% connected

The office of a leader.

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Leading 76% connected

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Liveliness 76% connected

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravit…

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Locating 76% connected

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Location 76% connected

The act or process of locating.

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Magnetization 76% connected

The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

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Market 76% connected

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…

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Materialization 76% connected

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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Maturation 76% connected

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Measurement 76% connected

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

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Measuring 76% connected

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Mensuration 76% connected

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

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Misconduct 76% connected

Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.

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Mourning 76% connected

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Music 76% connected

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a…

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Mystification 76% connected

The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

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Negotiation 76% connected

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

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Obfuscation 76% connected

The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

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Occupation 76% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Operation 76% connected

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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Organization 76% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Oscillation 76% connected

The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.

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Outlet 76% connected

The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

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Oxygenation 76% connected

The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.

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Pattern 76% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Pedagogy 76% connected

Pedagogics; pedagogism.

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Performing 76% connected

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Peristalsis 76% connected

Peristaltic contraction or action.

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Perspiration 76% connected

The act or process of perspiring.

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Perturbation 76% connected

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

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Placement 76% connected

The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

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Placentation 76% connected

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Playing 76% connected

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Pleasure 76% connected

The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or…

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Politics 76% connected

The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safet…

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Precedence 76% connected

Alt. of Precedency

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Precedency 76% connected

The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

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Precession 76% connected

The act of going before, or forward.

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Preparation 76% connected

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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Procedure 76% connected

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Protection 76% connected

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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Provision 76% connected

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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Puncture 76% connected

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

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Radiation 76% connected

The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

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Reaction 76% connected

Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

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Recreation 76% connected

The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Respiration 76% connected

The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

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Response 76% connected

The act of responding.

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Role 76% connected

A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of phila…

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Saltation 76% connected

A leaping or jumping.

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Scattering 76% connected

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Search 76% connected

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Sericulture 76% connected

The raising of silkworms.

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Service 76% connected

Alt. of Service

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sink 76% connected

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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Sleeping 76% connected

of Sleep

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Soakage 76% connected

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

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Soaking 76% connected

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Softening 76% connected

of Soften

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Solidification 76% connected

Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.

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Solidifying 76% connected

of Solidify

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Solo 76% connected

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Stiffening 76% connected

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Stimulation 76% connected

The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

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Styling 76% connected

of Style

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Succession 76% connected

The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succe…

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Sudation 76% connected

A sweating.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Supplying 76% connected

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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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Supporting 76% connected

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Suppuration 76% connected

The act or process of suppurating.

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Survival 76% connected

A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

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Sweating 76% connected

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Synergism 76% connected

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both…

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Synergy 76% connected

Combined action

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Tanning 76% connected

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Teaching 76% connected

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Tearing 76% connected

of Tear

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Training 76% connected

of Train

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Transduction 76% connected

The act of conveying over.

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Transpiration 76% connected

The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary tr…

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Uptake 76% connected

To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

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Usage 76% connected

The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Utilization 76% connected

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

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Variance 76% connected

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

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Variation 76% connected

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

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Vent 76% connected

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

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Ventilation 76% connected

The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a…

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Verbalization 76% connected

The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.

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Vermiculation 76% connected

The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion…

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Vitrification 76% connected

Same as Vitrifaction.

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Vivification 76% connected

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Watering 76% connected

of Water

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Weeping 76% connected

of Weep

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Worship 76% connected

Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

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Writing 76% connected

of Write

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Wrongdoing 76% connected

Evil or wicked behavior or action.

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Broader term 7

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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Capability 76% connected

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.

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Capacity 76% connected

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Active 74% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 74% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Attribute 4

Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 66% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Inactive 66% connected

Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Inactive 66% connected

Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

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Synonym 2

Action 92% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activeness 92% connected

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Antonym 2

Inactivity 94% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Inactivity 94% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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