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Queen

The wife of a king.

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Chessman 76% connected

A piece used in the game of chess.

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Insect 76% connected

One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.

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Personification 76% connected

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

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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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Wife 76% connected

A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Containing group 2

Deck 70% connected

To cover; to overspread.

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Royalty 70% connected

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.

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Fag 92% connected

A knot or coarse part in cloth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fagot 92% connected

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a f…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fairy 92% connected

Enchantment; illusion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pansy 92% connected

A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diver…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Queer 92% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tabby 92% connected

A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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