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Opportunity

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Audience 76% connected

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Day 76% connected

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunsh…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hearing 76% connected

of Hear

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Occasion 76% connected

A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Room 76% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Street 76% connected

Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Broader term 1

Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Chance 92% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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