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To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Narrower term 35

Acceleration 76% connected

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an accelerat…

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Celerity 76% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Cycle 76% connected

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

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Deliberateness 76% connected

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

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Deliberation 76% connected

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

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exchange rate 76% connected

How much one currency is worth in another currency.

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Fastness 76% connected

The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

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Fertility 76% connected

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quic…

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Freight 76% connected

That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of…

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Freightage 76% connected

Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

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Frequence 76% connected

A crowd; a throng; a concourse.

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Frequency 76% connected

The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.

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Gait 76% connected

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

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hertz 76% connected

The unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second

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interest rate 76% connected

The cost of borrowing money or the return paid on savings.

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Jerk 76% connected

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

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Knot 76% connected

A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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Linage 76% connected

See Lineage.

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Lineage 76% connected

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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Mortality 76% connected

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

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Oftenness 76% connected

Frequency.

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Pace 76% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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Pulse 76% connected

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

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Quickness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Rapidity 76% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 76% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Slowness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slow.

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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Speediness 76% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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Swiftness 76% connected

The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftnes…

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Tempo 76% connected

The rate or degree of movement in time.

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Velocity 76% connected

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the ve…

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Appraise 76% connected

To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

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Assess 76% connected

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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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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Proportion 76% connected

The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, th…

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Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Manner of action 4

Reorder 76% connected

To order a second time.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Subordinate 76% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Gradation 74% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Gradation 74% connected

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.

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Grade 74% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Grade 74% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Grader 74% connected

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

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Grader 74% connected

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Rating 74% connected

of Rate

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Rating 74% connected

of Rate

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Scaling 74% connected

of Scale

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Scaling 74% connected

of Scale

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Valuation 74% connected

The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose o…

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Valuation 74% connected

The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose o…

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Grade 92% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Order 92% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Pace 92% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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Place 92% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Range 92% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Rank 92% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Value 92% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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