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Verb group 4

Broader term 23

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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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Audition 76% connected

The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

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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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Construe 76% connected

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to ex…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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Forebode 76% connected

To foretell.

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Foretell 76% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Indicate 76% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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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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Predict 76% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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Prognosticate 76% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Publication 76% connected

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

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See 76% connected

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

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Understand 76% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Manner of action 21

Anagram 76% connected

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of…

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Anagrammatize 76% connected

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.

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Audit 76% connected

An audience; a hearing.

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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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Decipher 76% connected

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

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Dictate 76% connected

To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

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Drill 76% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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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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Misinterpret 76% connected

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

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Misread 76% connected

of Misread

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Numerate 76% connected

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Practise 76% connected

See Practice.

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Prepare 76% connected

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Scry 76% connected

To descry.

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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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Skim 76% connected

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Trace 76% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Derivationally related 14

Field 74% connected

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

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Field 74% connected

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

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Indication 74% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Indication 74% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Reader 74% connected

One who reads.

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Reader 74% connected

One who reads.

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Recitation 74% connected

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

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Recitation 74% connected

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

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Study 74% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Study 74% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Synonym 11

Interpret 92% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Learn 92% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Record 92% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Register 92% 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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Say 92% connected

Saw.

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Scan 92% connected

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Show 92% 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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Study 92% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Translate 92% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Understand 92% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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