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Offering a choice of two things.

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Disjunctive 84% connected

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Disjunctive 84% connected

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Secondary 84% connected

Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Secondary 84% connected

Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Deciding 76% connected

of Decide

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Narrower term 7

Default 76% connected

A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the govern…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hobson's choice 76% connected

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impossibility 76% connected

The quality of being impossible; impracticability.

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Obverse 76% connected

Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Preference 76% connected

The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Option 74% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Option 74% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Alternate 92% connected

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Choice 92% connected

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Option 92% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Substitute 92% connected

One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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