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Communication

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Abstraction 76% connected

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Connection 76% connected

The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connexion 76% connected

Connection. See Connection.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Narrower term 51

Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Contagion 76% connected

The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Didacticism 76% connected

The didactic method or system.

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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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Discussion 76% connected

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

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Display 76% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Dissuasion 76% connected

The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.

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Document 76% connected

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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Dramaturgy 76% connected

The art of dramatic composition and representation.

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Examination 76% connected

The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

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Exhortation 76% connected

The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

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Expostulation 76% connected

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasio…

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Expression 76% connected

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…

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Indicant 76% connected

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

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Indication 76% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Infection 76% connected

The act or process of infecting.

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Language 76% connected

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Mail 76% connected

A spot.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Objection 76% connected

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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Persuasion 76% connected

The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines t…

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Phonation 76% connected

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Publication 76% connected

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

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Remonstrance 76% connected

The act of remonstrating

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Remonstration 76% connected

The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Signal 76% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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Signaling 76% connected

of Signal

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Signalling 76% connected

of Signal

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Suasion 76% connected

The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Theater 76% connected

Alt. of Theatre

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Theatre 76% connected

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Traffic 76% connected

To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

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Transmission 76% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Treatment 76% connected

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

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Twitter 76% connected

One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.

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Verbalism 76% connected

Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.

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Vocalism 76% connected

The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

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Vocalization 76% connected

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Vox 76% connected

A voice.

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Derivationally related 4

Communicate 74% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Communicate 74% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Convey 74% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Convey 74% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Synonym 1

Communicating 92% connected

of Communicate

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