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Postulation

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

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Appeal 76% connected

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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Application 76% connected

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Ingathering 76% connected

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.

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Content 76% 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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Declaration 76% connected

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Substance 76% 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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Posit 74% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Posit 74% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Request 74% connected

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

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Request 74% connected

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

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Petition 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Predication 92% connected

The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Request 92% connected

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

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.

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