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Narrower term 69

Acknowledgement 76% connected

a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment"; "the preface contained an acknowledg…

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Acknowledgment 76% connected

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

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Approval 76% connected

Approbation; sanction.

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Aside 76% connected

On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.

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Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Broadcast 76% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Bunk 76% connected

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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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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Commendation 76% connected

The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.

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Commitment 76% connected

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

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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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Cypher 76% connected

See Cipher.

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Dedication 76% connected

The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedic…

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Digression 76% connected

The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.

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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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Disapproval 76% connected

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

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Discourtesy 76% connected

Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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Disrespect 76% connected

Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Divagation 76% connected

A wandering about or going astray; digression.

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Drivel 76% connected

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

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Entry 76% connected

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

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Excursus 76% connected

A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

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Garbage 76% connected

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

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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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Humor 76% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 76% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Import 76% connected

To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in th…

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Information 76% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Inscription 76% connected

The act or process of inscribing.

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Insertion 76% connected

The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

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Instruction 76% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Interpolation 76% connected

The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.

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Mail 76% connected

A spot.

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Meaning 76% connected

of Mean

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Memorial 76% connected

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

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Narration 76% connected

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

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Narrative 76% connected

Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

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Nonsense 76% connected

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Offering 76% connected

of Offer

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Packet 76% connected

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

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Parenthesis 76% connected

A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without…

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Petition 76% connected

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…

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Postulation 76% connected

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

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Proposal 76% connected

That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals…

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Publicity 76% connected

The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

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Refusal 76% connected

The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.

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Reminder 76% connected

One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Sensationalism 76% connected

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; s…

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Sext 76% connected

The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.

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Significance 76% connected

Alt. of Significancy

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Signification 76% connected

The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Submission 76% connected

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedienc…

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Tale 76% connected

See Tael.

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Telegram 76% connected

A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

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Theme 76% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Topic 76% connected

One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (…

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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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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Wit 76% connected

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Witticism 76% connected

A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

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Wittiness 76% connected

The quality of being witty.

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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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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Text 76% connected

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

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Content 92% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Substance 92% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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