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Adaptive

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

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Adjustive 84% connected

Tending to adjust.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Adjustive 84% connected

Tending to adjust.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Reconciling 84% connected

of Reconcile

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Reconciling 84% connected

of Reconcile

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Accommodate 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Accommodate 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Adaptative 92% connected

Adaptive.

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Accommodation noun · 78% connection

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

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Adaptable adjective · 78% connection

capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the fr…

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Adaptation noun · 78% connection

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.

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Adaption noun · 78% connection

Adaptation.

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Aptitude noun · 78% connection

A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.

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Argumentative adjective · 78% connection

Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.

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Arrangement noun · 78% connection

the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

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Arranging noun · 78% connection

the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

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Art noun · 78% connection

The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the applica…

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Calculate verb · 78% connection

To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculat…

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Call noun · 78% connection

the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

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Coaptation noun · 78% connection

The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

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Compose verb · 78% connection

To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to i…

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Concinnity noun · 78% connection

Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.

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Congeniality noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

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Conoid noun · 78% connection

A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve,…

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Consertion noun · 78% connection

Junction; adaptation

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

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