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Narrower term 11

Anagoge 76% connected

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

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Browse 76% connected

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Browsing 76% connected

of Browse

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Capitula 76% connected

See Capitulum.

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Declamation 76% connected

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise…

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Perusal 76% connected

The act of carefully viewing or examining.

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Perusing 76% connected

of Peruse

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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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Skimming 76% connected

of Skim

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Studying 76% connected

of Study

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Time 76% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Broader term 9

Datum 76% connected

Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Interpretation 76% connected

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

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Language 76% connected

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…

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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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Measurement 76% connected

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

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Measuring 76% connected

of Measure

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Mensuration 76% connected

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Speaking 76% connected

of Speak

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Derivationally related 8

Indicate 74% connected

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

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Indicate 74% connected

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

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Read 74% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Read 74% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Recite 74% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Recite 74% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Take 74% connected

Taken.

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Take 74% connected

Taken.

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Synonym 5

Indication 92% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Interpretation 92% connected

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

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Recital 92% connected

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

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Recitation 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Version 92% connected

A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.

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