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Aggression
noun · 78% connection
The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; ass…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Alternate
adjective · 78% connection
Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Begin
verb · 78% connection
To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or cours…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Biennial
adjective · 78% connection
Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Bowl
noun · 78% connection
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Centner
noun · 78% connection
A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Circean
adjective · 78% connection
Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Coercion
noun · 78% connection
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Commitment
noun · 78% connection
The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Convallamarin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Corban
noun · 78% connection
An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Engagement
noun · 78% connection
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
First-class
adjective · 78% connection
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Fugue
noun · 78% connection
A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Gastrocybe lateritia
noun · 78% connection
a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Gene expression
noun · 78% connection
conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
Handsel
noun · 78% connection
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledging, drinking, first, then, offering.
