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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.

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Verb group 20

Ascertain 84% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Ascertain 84% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Check 84% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Control 84% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Control 84% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Determine 84% connected

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

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Find 84% 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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Find 84% 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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Witness 84% connected

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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Manner of action 37

Absorb 76% connected

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

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Alternate 76% connected

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

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Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Assimilate 76% connected

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

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Audit 76% connected

An audience; a hearing.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Catechise 76% connected

To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

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Catechize 76% connected

See Catechise.

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Coach 76% connected

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated…

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Drill 76% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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Edify 76% connected

To build; to construct.

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Educate 76% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Enlighten 76% connected

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

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Exercise 76% connected

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Indoctrinate 76% connected

To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles…

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Induct 76% connected

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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Ingest 76% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Lecture 76% connected

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Mentor 76% connected

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Practise 76% connected

See Practice.

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Prepare 76% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Reinforce 76% connected

See Reenforce, v. t.

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Reward 76% connected

To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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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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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Tutor 76% connected

One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.

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Understudy 76% connected

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

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Unteach 76% connected

To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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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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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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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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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Win 76% connected

To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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Acquirement 74% connected

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

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Acquirement 74% connected

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

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Discovery 74% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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Discovery 74% connected

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

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Memory 74% connected

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

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Memory 74% connected

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

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Causes 1

Acquire 72% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Synonym 15

Acquire 92% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ascertain 92% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Check 92% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Con 92% connected

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

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Determine 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

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Hear 92% connected

To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

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Instruct 92% connected

Arranged; furnished; provided.

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Memorize 92% connected

To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.

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Read 92% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Study 92% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Teach 92% connected

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Watch 92% connected

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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