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Attending

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Appearance 76% connected

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Appearing 76% connected

of Appear

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Ear 76% connected

The organ of hearing; the external ear.

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Eye 76% connected

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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Heed 76% connected

To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

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Notice 76% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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Observance 76% connected

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and f…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Observation 76% connected

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

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Presence 76% connected

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Hang 74% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hang 74% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Minister 74% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Minister 74% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Attendance 92% connected

Attention; regard; careful application.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Attention 92% connected

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or specia…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ministrant 92% connected

Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Inattention 94% connected

Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.

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Inattention 94% connected

Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.

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