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Baccalaureate

The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

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Ab 76% connected

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.

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Ba 76% connected

To kiss.

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Ban 76% connected

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Discourse 76% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Preaching 76% connected

of Preach

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Sermon 76% connected

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

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Commencement 70% connected

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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Graduation 70% connected

The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evapor…

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