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Judge

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

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Manner of action 71

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Adjudge 76% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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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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Approve 76% connected

To show to be real or true; to prove.

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Ascribe 76% connected

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a boo…

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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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Assign 76% connected

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

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Assoil 76% connected

To set free; to release.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Believe 76% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Choose 76% connected

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Conceive 76% connected

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Convict 76% connected

Proved or found guilty; convicted.

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Court-martial 76% connected

A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.

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Critique 76% connected

The art of criticism.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Decline 76% connected

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Disapprove 76% connected

To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprov…

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Disqualify 76% connected

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state,…

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Essay 76% connected

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Evaluate 76% connected

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

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Examine 76% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

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Exculpate 76% connected

To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

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Exonerate 76% connected

To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Fail 76% connected

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Give 76% 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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Grade 76% connected

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 fl…

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Impute 76% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

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Intonate 76% connected

To thunder.

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Intone 76% connected

To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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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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Order 76% connected

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

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Place 76% 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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Prejudge 76% connected

To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.

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Prove 76% connected

To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Qualify 76% connected

To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…

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Range 76% 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 76% connected

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

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Rate 76% connected

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

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Referee 76% connected

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

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Refuse 76% connected

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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Reject 76% connected

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Review 76% connected

To view or see again; to look back on.

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Rule 76% connected

That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Stand 76% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Tout 76% connected

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

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Truncate 76% connected

To cut off; to lop; to maim.

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Umpire 76% connected

A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cri…

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Underestimate 76% connected

To set to/ low a value on; to estimate below the truth.

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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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Adjudge 76% connected

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Adjudicate 76% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Adjudicator 76% connected

One who adjudicates.

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Authority 76% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cipher 76% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Compute 76% connected

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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Cypher 76% connected

See Cipher.

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Functionary 76% connected

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Official 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Settle 76% connected

A seat of any kind.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Alcalde 76% connected

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

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Appraiser 76% connected

One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

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Arbiter 76% connected

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

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Arbitrator 76% connected

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

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Chief justice 76% connected

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.

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Critic 76% connected

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc.…

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Daniel 76% connected

A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

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Doge 76% connected

The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

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Justiciar 76% connected

Same as Justiciary.

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Justiciary 76% connected

An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

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Magistrate 76% connected

A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

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Ordinary 76% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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Praetor 76% connected

See Pretor.

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Pretor 76% connected

A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

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Recorder 76% connected

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

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Trier 76% connected

One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.

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Umpire 76% connected

A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cri…

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Valuator 76% connected

One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.

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Adjudicate 74% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Adjudicate 74% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Assessment 74% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Assessment 74% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Decide 74% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Decide 74% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Dictum 74% connected

An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

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Dictum 74% connected

An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

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Judgement 74% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgement 74% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgeship 74% connected

The office of a judge.

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Judgeship 74% connected

The office of a judge.

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Judging 74% connected

of Judge

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Judging 74% connected

of Judge

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Judicial 74% connected

Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a…

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Judicial 74% connected

Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a…

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Synonym 11

Adjudicate 92% connected

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

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Approximate 92% connected

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

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Estimate 92% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Evaluate 92% connected

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

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Gauge 92% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Guess 92% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Jurist 92% connected

One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

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Justice 92% connected

The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Label 92% connected

A tassel.

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.

Pronounce 92% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Try 92% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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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Evaluate 86% connected

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

ad editorial 2026 08 general 58% interchangeable more formal

Broader and sometimes more subjective than evaluate.

Think 78% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

general 50% interchangeable

Judge overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

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