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Grade

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

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Ablaut 76% connected

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got;…

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Appraise 76% connected

To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Assess 76% connected

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

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Assort 76% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Cattle 76% connected

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Classify 76% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Cows 76% connected

of Cow

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Elevation 76% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Evaluation 76% connected

Valuation; appraisement.

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Even 76% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Gradient 76% connected

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Kine 76% connected

of Cow

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Oxen 76% connected

of Ox

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Rank 76% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Rating 76% connected

of Rate

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Slope 76% connected

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Sort 76% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Valuation 76% connected

The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose o…

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Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Caliber 76% connected

Alt. of Calibre

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Calibre 76% connected

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8…

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Decile 76% connected

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36?.

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Depth 76% connected

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the…

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Extreme 76% connected

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

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Grind 76% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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High 76% connected

To hie.

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Highness 76% connected

The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

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Immoderateness 76% connected

The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

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Immoderation 76% connected

Want of moderation.

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Intensity 76% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Intensiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Low 76% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Lowness 76% connected

The state or quality of being low.

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Moderateness 76% connected

The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

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Moderation 76% connected

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Quartile 76% connected

Same as Quadrate.

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Rise 76% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Manner of action 4

Reorder 76% connected

To order a second time.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Subordinate 76% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Gradation 74% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Gradation 74% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Grader 74% connected

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

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Grader 74% connected

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

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Grading 74% connected

of Grade

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Grading 74% connected

of Grade

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Gradual 74% connected

Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gra…

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Gradual 74% connected

Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gra…

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Rank 74% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Rank 74% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Rate 74% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Rate 74% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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High 66% connected

To hie.

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High 66% connected

To hie.

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Intense 66% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Intense 66% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Low 66% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Low 66% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Mild 66% connected

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Mild 66% connected

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Synonym 14

Class 92% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Course 92% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Degree 92% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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form 92% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Gradation 92% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Level 92% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Mark 92% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Order 92% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Place 92% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Range 92% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Rank 92% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Rate 92% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Score 92% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Tier 92% connected

One who, or that which, ties.

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