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Recognize

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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Broader term 24

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Accost 76% connected

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Appreciate 76% connected

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Bind 76% connected

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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Certify 76% connected

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

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Cognize 76% connected

To know or perceive; to recognize.

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Detect 76% connected

Detected.

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Discover 76% connected

To uncover.

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Find 76% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Licence 76% connected

a legal document giving official permission to do something

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License 76% connected

Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry…

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Notice 76% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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Observe 76% connected

To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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Prize 76% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Recollect 76% connected

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

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Remember 76% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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Retrieve 76% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Thank 76% connected

A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now…

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Treasure 76% connected

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

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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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Apologize 76% connected

To make an apology or defense.

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Appreciate 76% connected

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Bid 76% connected

of Bid

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Bob 76% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

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Curtsy 76% connected

Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

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Discriminate 76% connected

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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Hail 76% connected

Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are calle…

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Herald 76% connected

An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an a…

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Honor 76% connected

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

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Honour 76% connected

a woman's virtue or chastity

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Identify 76% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Receive 76% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Reward 76% connected

To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

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Rubricate 76% connected

Marked with red.

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Salute 76% connected

To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.

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Welcome 76% connected

Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.

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Wish 76% connected

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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Comprehend 72% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Know 72% connected

Knee.

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Perceive 72% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Synonym 9

Accredit 92% connected

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

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Acknowledge 92% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Agnize 92% connected

To recognize; to acknowledge.

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Discern 92% connected

To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.

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Distinguish 92% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Greet 92% connected

Great.

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Know 92% connected

Knee.

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Realize 92% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Spot 92% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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