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Assiduity

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.

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Diligence 76% connected

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

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Industry 76% connected

Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness;…

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Engrossment 76% connected

The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

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Intentness 76% connected

The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention.

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Singleness 76% connected

The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

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Assiduous 74% connected

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.

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Assiduous 74% connected

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.

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Concentration 92% connected

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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Achieve verb · 78% connection

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an…

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Anagoge noun · 78% connection

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

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Application noun · 78% connection

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Associate verb · 78% connection

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Business noun · 78% connection

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

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Cauterization noun · 78% connection

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

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Company noun · 78% connection

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Conceptualism noun · 78% connection

A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of indivi…

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Crash verb · 78% connection

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

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Dispatch verb · 78% connection

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Engagement noun · 78% connection

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

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Enterprise noun · 78% connection

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like…

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Enterprising adjective · 78% connection

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or fi…

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Event noun · 78% connection

That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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Expedition noun · 78% connection

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Eye noun · 78% connection

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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Furl verb · 78% connection

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or arou…

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Generalize verb · 78% connection

To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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