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Cogent

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.

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Persuasive 84% connected

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.

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Persuasive 84% connected

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.

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Cogency 74% connected

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

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Cogency 74% connected

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

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Telling 92% connected

of Tell

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Weighty 92% connected

Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

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Agent noun · 78% connection

An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a p…

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Agnosticism noun · 78% connection

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necess…

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Besiege verb · 78% connection

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

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Brucine noun · 78% connection

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nu…

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

the act of compelling by force of authority

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Compulsatory adjective · 78% connection

Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

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Compulsion noun · 78% connection

The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subj…

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Conviction noun · 78% connection

The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

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Crying adjective · 78% connection

Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

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Energetics noun · 78% connection

That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which…

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Engine noun · 78% connection

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

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Evidence noun · 78% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Exaction noun · 78% connection

The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to c…

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Flesh noun · 78% connection

In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

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form noun · 78% connection

(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and s…

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Grounds noun · 78% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Hither adverb · 78% connection

To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.

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Homology noun · 78% connection

The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small,…

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