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Gift

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Narrower term 29

Accordance 76% connected

Agreement; harmony; conformity.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Almsgiving 76% connected

The giving of alms.

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Assistance 76% connected

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

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Award 76% connected

To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrator…

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Bent 76% connected

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Bequest 76% connected

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

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Bestowal 76% connected

The act of bestowing; disposal.

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Bestowment 76% connected

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

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Charity 76% connected

Love; universal benevolence; good will.

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Contribution 76% connected

The act of contributing.

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Devise 76% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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Donation 76% connected

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

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Dower 76% connected

That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

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Dowery 76% connected

See Dower.

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Dowry 76% connected

A gift; endowment.

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Endowment 76% connected

The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

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Enrichment 76% connected

The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

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Genius 76% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Hang 76% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Knack 76% connected

To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

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Largess 76% connected

Alt. of Largesse

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Largesse 76% connected

Liberality; generosity; bounty.

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Legacy 76% connected

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

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Oblation 76% connected

The act of offering, or of making an offering.

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Offering 76% connected

of Offer

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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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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Prize 76% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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Acquisition 76% connected

The act or process of acquiring.

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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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Enable 76% connected

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

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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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Sharing 76% connected

of Share

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Manner of action 20

Bequeath 76% connected

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

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Bung 76% connected

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

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Cede 76% connected

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Donate 76% connected

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

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Dower 76% connected

That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

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Endow 76% connected

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to f…

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Fee 76% connected

property; possession; tenure.

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Grant 76% connected

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Raffle 76% connected

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dic…

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Surrender 76% connected

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Tip 76% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Will 76% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Derivationally related 8

Bestower 74% connected

One that bestows.

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Bestower 74% connected

One that bestows.

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Empower 74% connected

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

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Empower 74% connected

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

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Give 74% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Give 74% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Giving 74% connected

of Give

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Giving 74% connected

of Give

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Synonym 10

Empower 92% connected

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

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Endow 92% connected

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to f…

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Endowment 92% connected

The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

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Endue 92% connected

To invest.

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Give 92% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Giving 92% connected

of Give

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Indue 92% connected

To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

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Invest 92% connected

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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Present 92% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Talent 92% connected

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs.…

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