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Graduate

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

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High 84% connected

To hie.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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High 84% connected

To hie.

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Broader term 8

Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bestow 76% connected

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confer 76% connected

To bring together for comparison; to compare.

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scholar 76% connected

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Alumna 76% connected

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Alumnus 76% connected

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

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Graduation 74% connected

The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evapor…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Graduation 74% connected

The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evapor…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Alum 92% connected

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystal…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Calibrate 92% connected

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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