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Lead

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

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Verb group 16

Conduct 84% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Conduct 84% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Guide 84% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Guide 84% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Head 84% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Head 84% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Leave 84% connected

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

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Leave 84% connected

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

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Pass 84% 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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Pass 84% 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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Range 84% 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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Range 84% 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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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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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Advantage 76% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

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Angle 76% connected

The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Black lead 76% connected

Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

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Boost 76% connected

To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Constraint 76% connected

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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Counsel 76% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

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Counseling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Counselling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Discuss 76% connected

To break to pieces; to shatter.

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Encourage 76% connected

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

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Evidence 76% connected

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the…

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Further 76% connected

To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Graphite 76% connected

Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper.…

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Guidance 76% connected

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Histrion 76% connected

A player.

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Jumper 76% connected

One who, or that which, jumps.

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Leadership 76% connected

The office of a leader.

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Leading 76% connected

of Lead

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Leave 76% connected

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

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Make 76% connected

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

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Metal 76% connected

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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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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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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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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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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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Player 76% connected

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Plumbago 76% connected

Same as Graphite.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Precede 76% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Promote 76% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Result 76% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Score 76% 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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Section 76% connected

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

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Subdivision 76% connected

The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

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Thespian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.

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Timing 76% connected

of Time

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Vantage 76% connected

superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

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Wire 76% connected

A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a…

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Manner of action 24

Beacon 76% connected

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

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Captain 76% connected

A head, or chief officer

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Chair 76% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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Chairman 76% connected

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Curve 76% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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Diverge 76% connected

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

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Entail 76% connected

That which is entailed.

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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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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Implicate 76% connected

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

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Misdirect 76% connected

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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Misguide 76% connected

To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

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Mislead 76% connected

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

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Necessitate 76% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Radiate 76% connected

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

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Ray 76% connected

To array.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Spearhead 76% connected

The pointed head, or end, of a spear.

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Underrun 76% connected

To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

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Usher 76% connected

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strang…

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Idol 76% connected

An image or representation of anything.

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Chair 74% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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Chair 74% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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Contributive 74% connected

Contributing, or tending to contribute.

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Contributive 74% connected

Contributing, or tending to contribute.

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Contributory 74% connected

Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contri…

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Contributory 74% connected

Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contri…

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Direct 74% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Direct 74% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Head 74% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Head 74% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Headway 74% connected

The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

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Headway 74% connected

The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

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Hint 74% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Hint 74% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Issue 74% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Issue 74% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Leader 74% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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Leader 74% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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Moderator 74% connected

One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.

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Moderator 74% connected

One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.

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Outcome 74% connected

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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Outcome 74% connected

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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Sequent 74% connected

Following; succeeding; in continuance.

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Sequent 74% connected

Following; succeeding; in continuance.

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Star 74% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Star 74% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Tether 74% connected

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

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Tether 74% connected

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

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Compete 72% connected

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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Contend 72% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Vie 72% connected

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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Cerussite 70% connected

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

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Galena 70% connected

A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.

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Synonym 28

Chair 92% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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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.

Conduce 92% connected

To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.

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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.

Conduct 92% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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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.

Contribute 92% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Extend 92% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Go 92% connected

Gone.

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Guide 92% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Head 92% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hint 92% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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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.

Leading 92% connected

of Lead

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Leash 92% connected

A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.

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Leave 92% connected

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

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Moderate 92% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Pass 92% 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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Precede 92% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Principal 92% connected

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

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Result 92% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Run 92% connected

of Run

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Star 92% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Steer 92% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Tether 92% connected

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

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Tip 92% 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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Top 92% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Track 92% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Trail 92% connected

To hunt by the track; to track.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wind 92% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Antonym 4

Deficit 94% connected

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

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Deficit 94% connected

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Follow 94% 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 94% 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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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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