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Orient

Rising, as the sun.

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Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Acquaint 76% connected

Acquainted.

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Adapt 76% connected

Fitted; suited.

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Decide 76% connected

To cut off; to separate.

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Determine 76% connected

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

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Familiarize 76% connected

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of dis…

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Hemisphere 76% connected

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

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Lie 76% connected

See Lye.

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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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Guide 76% 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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Reorient 76% connected

Rising again.

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Causes 1

Point 72% connected

To appoint.

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Synonym 3

Orientate 92% connected

To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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Tailor 92% connected

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

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Antonym 2

Disorient 94% connected

To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

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Disorient 94% connected

To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

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