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Favorable 84% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favorable 84% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favourable 84% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Favourable 84% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Pursuing 84% connected

of Pursue

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Pursuing 84% connected

of Pursue

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Succeeding 84% connected

of Succeed

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Succeeding 84% connected

of Succeed

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Narrower term 8

Claque 76% connected

A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

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Faithful 76% connected

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.

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Shadowing 76% connected

of Shadow

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Stalk 76% connected

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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Stalking 76% connected

of Stalk

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Tailing 76% connected

The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

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tracking 76% connected

of Track

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Trailing 76% connected

of Trail

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Broader term 6

Mass 76% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Multitude 76% connected

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Follow 74% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Follow 74% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Member part 4

Buff 70% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Devotee 70% connected

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

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Fan 70% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Lover 70% connected

One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

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Synonym 4

Chase 92% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Next 92% connected

Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pursual 92% connected

The act of pursuit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pursuit 92% connected

The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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