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

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Verb group 42

Acquit 84% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Acquit 84% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Act 84% 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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Act 84% 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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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Bear 84% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Behave 84% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Behave 84% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Bet 84% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Bet 84% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Comport 84% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Comport 84% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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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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Dally 84% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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Dally 84% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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Deport 84% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Deport 84% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Encounter 84% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Encounter 84% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Execute 84% 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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Execute 84% 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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Flirt 84% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Flirt 84% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Meet 84% 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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Meet 84% 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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Recreate 84% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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Recreate 84% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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Represent 84% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Represent 84% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Toy 84% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Toy 84% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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Wager 84% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Wager 84% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Accompany 76% connected

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…

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Ace 76% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Bandy 76% connected

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Bid 76% connected

of Bid

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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Bowl 76% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Bugle 76% connected

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Busk 76% connected

A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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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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Cavort 76% connected

To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

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Chord 76% connected

The string of a musical instrument.

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Clarion 76% connected

A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Confront 76% connected

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Cradle 76% connected

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

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Cricket 76% connected

An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the vei…

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Croquet 76% connected

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the gro…

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Curl 76% connected

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

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Dabble 76% connected

To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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Debut 76% connected

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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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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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Disport 76% connected

Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

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Drum 76% connected

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with…

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Enact 76% connected

To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) whi…

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Fiddle 76% connected

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Follow 76% 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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Fool 76% connected

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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Foul 76% connected

A bird.

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Frisk 76% connected

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.

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Frolic 76% connected

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

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Fumble 76% connected

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

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Gage 76% connected

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperform…

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Gamble 76% connected

To play or game for money or other stake.

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Gambol 76% connected

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Golf 76% connected

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground…

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Ham 76% connected

Home.

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Harp 76% connected

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

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Hook 76% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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Impersonate 76% connected

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

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Lark 76% connected

A frolic; a jolly time.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Mime 76% connected

A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.

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Modulate 76% connected

To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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Nail 76% connected

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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Overact 76% connected

To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

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Paddle 76% connected

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Pantomime 76% connected

A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.

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Parody 76% connected

A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one sub…

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Pipe 76% connected

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Portray 76% connected

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

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Prelude 76% connected

An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strai…

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Pretend 76% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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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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Punt 76% connected

To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.

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Rag 76% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Recapitulate 76% connected

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate i…

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Reenact 76% connected

To enact again.

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Register 76% connected

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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Repeat 76% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Reprise 76% connected

A taking by way of retaliation.

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Reprize 76% connected

See Reprise.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Revoke 76% connected

To call or bring back; to recall.

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Romp 76% connected

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

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See 76% connected

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

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Seesaw 76% connected

A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

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Skirl 76% connected

To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.

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Skylark 76% connected

A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated f…

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Slap 76% connected

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

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Slur 76% connected

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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Sport 76% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Stake 76% connected

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Swing 76% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Symphonize 76% connected

To agree; to be in harmony.

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Tongue 76% connected

an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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Trumpet 76% connected

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tu…

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Tweedle 76% connected

To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

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Underact 76% connected

To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly.

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Underplay 76% connected

To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.

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Volley 76% connected

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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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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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activeness 76% connected

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Alteration 76% connected

The act of altering or making different.

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Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Assume 76% connected

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Bet 76% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Commence 76% connected

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Compete 76% 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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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Contend 76% connected

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

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Diversion 76% connected

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

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Effort 76% connected

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Endeavor 76% connected

To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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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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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Exploit 76% connected

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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Feign 76% connected

To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

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Freedom 76% connected

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

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Gamble 76% connected

To play or game for money or other stake.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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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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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

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

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Manipulate 76% connected

To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Modification 76% connected

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Movability 76% connected

Movableness.

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Movableness 76% connected

The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.

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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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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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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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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Re-create 76% connected

To create or form anew.

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Recreate 76% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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Recreation 76% connected

The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

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Seem 76% connected

To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be…

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Sham 76% connected

That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

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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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Simulate 76% connected

Feigned; pretended.

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Tucker 76% connected

One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.

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Usage 76% connected

The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Utilization 76% connected

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

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Utilize 76% connected

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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Vice 76% connected

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

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Vie 76% connected

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

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Wager 76% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Wit 76% connected

of Wit

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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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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Bat 76% connected

A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

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Bet 76% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Comedy 76% connected

A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the lu…

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Completion 76% connected

The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.

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Coquetry 76% connected

Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

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Craziness 76% connected

The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

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Dalliance 76% connected

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Down 76% connected

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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Drollery 76% connected

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.

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Fencing 76% connected

/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Fireman 76% connected

A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.

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Flirt 76% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Flirtation 76% connected

Playing at courtship; coquetry.

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Flirting 76% connected

of Flirt

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Folly 76% connected

The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

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Foolery 76% connected

The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Horseplay 76% connected

Rude, boisterous play.

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Icing 76% connected

of Ice

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Indulgence 76% connected

The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

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Jocosity 76% connected

A jocose act or saying; jocoseness.

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Jocularity 76% connected

Jesting; merriment.

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Jugglery 76% connected

The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lunacy 76% connected

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of t…

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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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Musical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical propo…

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Obstruction 76% connected

The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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Paronomasia 76% connected

A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as…

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Pun 76% connected

To pound.

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Punning 76% connected

of Pun

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Ruff 76% connected

A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Slack 76% connected

Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

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Slackness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slack.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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starting 76% connected

of Start

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Stroke 76% connected

Struck.

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Teasing 76% connected

of Tease

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Tomfoolery 76% connected

Folly; trifling.

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toying 76% connected

of Toy

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Trick 76% connected

An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

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Trumping 76% connected

of Trump

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Wager 76% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Waggery 76% connected

The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a sc…

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Derivationally related 26

Adopt 74% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Adopt 74% connected

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place o…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Caper 74% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Caper 74% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatic 74% connected

Alt. of Dramatical

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatic 74% connected

Alt. of Dramatical

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatist 74% connected

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatist 74% connected

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatize 74% connected

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dramatize 74% connected

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Gambol 74% connected

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Gambol 74% connected

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Participant 74% connected

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Participant 74% connected

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Player 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Player 74% connected

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

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Punter 74% connected

One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Punter 74% connected

One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shimmer 74% connected

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shimmer 74% connected

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wager 74% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wager 74% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Entails 3

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Contend 72% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Component part 10

Act 70% 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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Bout 70% connected

As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

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Frame 70% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Half 70% connected

Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.

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Inning 70% connected

of Inn

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Over 70% connected

Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Period 70% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quarter 70% connected

One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

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Round 70% connected

To whisper.

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Turn 70% 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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 33

Act 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Bet 92% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Bid 92% connected

of Bid

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Bring 92% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Caper 92% connected

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Dally 92% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Diddle 92% connected

To totter, as a child in walking.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Drama 92% connected

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorou…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Encounter 92% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fiddle 92% connected

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Flirt 92% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Frolic 92% connected

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fun 92% connected

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gambling 92% connected

of Gamble

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gambol 92% connected

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gaming 92% connected

of Game

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Looseness 92% connected

The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Maneuver 92% connected

Alt. of Manoeuvre

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Manoeuvre 92% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meet 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recreate 92% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Represent 92% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Romp 92% connected

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Run 92% connected

of Run

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Shimmer 92% connected

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Sport 92% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swordplay 92% connected

Fencing; a sword fight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toy 92% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Trifle 92% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Turn 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Wager 92% connected

Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Work 92% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Wreak 92% connected

To reck; to care.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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