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Detail

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Component 76% connected

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Constituent 76% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crew 76% connected

The Manx shearwater.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dilate 76% connected

To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by inc…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Enlarge 76% connected

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expand 76% connected

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expatiate 76% connected

To range at large, or without restraint.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expound 76% connected

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

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Fact 76% connected

A doing, making, or preparing.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Gang 76% connected

To go; to walk.

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Lucubrate 76% connected

To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Specify 76% connected

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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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Narrower term 6

Minutia 76% connected

A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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Respect 76% connected

To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.

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Technicality 76% connected

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

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Trifle 76% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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Triviality 76% connected

The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

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Contingent 92% connected

Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Item 92% connected

Also; as an additional article.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Particular 92% connected

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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.

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