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Declaratory

Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.

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Adjudge 74% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Adjudge 74% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Declare 74% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Declare 74% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Asserting 92% connected

of Assert

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Declarative 92% connected

Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Interrogative 94% connected

Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.

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Interrogative 94% connected

Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun.

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Acknowledgment noun · 78% connection

A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, t…

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Affirmation noun · 78% connection

A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is…

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Affirmative adjective · 78% connection

That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an…

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Affirmatively adverb · 78% connection

In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.

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After preposition · 78% connection

Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and…

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And conj. · 78% connection

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

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Antimetathesis noun · 78% connection

A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…

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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Apparent adjective · 78% connection

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

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Aye noun · 78% connection

An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."

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Clear adjective · 78% connection

readily apparent to the mind; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that…

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Construction noun · 78% connection

The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanatio…

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Coordinate clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Declaration noun · 78% connection

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclama…

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Demonstration noun · 78% connection

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

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Elocution noun · 78% connection

Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public…

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Elucidation noun · 78% connection

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example ma…

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