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Bent

of Bend

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Resolute 84% connected

Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Resolute 84% connected

Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Endowment 76% connected

The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talent 76% connected

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs.…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Bended 92% connected

of Bend

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.

Bent grass 92% connected

Same as Bent, a kind of grass.

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.

Crumpled 92% connected

of Crumple

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dented 92% connected

of Dent

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hang 92% 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 68% interchangeable

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Knack 92% connected

To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Set 92% connected

of Set

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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