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Recollective

Having the power of recollecting.

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Aware 66% connected

Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

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Aware 66% connected

Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

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Mindful 66% connected

Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.

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Mindful 66% connected

Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.

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Long 92% connected

Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

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Retentive 92% connected

Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.

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Tenacious 92% connected

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

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Abdication noun · 78% connection

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sov…

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Act noun · 78% connection

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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Action noun · 78% connection

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body a…

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Admission noun · 78% connection

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.

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Agent noun · 78% connection

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

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Animal noun · 78% connection

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an…

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Aphemia noun · 78% connection

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

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Appointment noun · 78% connection

The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also…

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Arbiter noun · 78% connection

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is n…

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Assumption noun · 78% connection

the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assu…

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Attraction noun · 78% connection

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

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Authority noun · 78% connection

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisd…

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Bilocation noun · 78% connection

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

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Capacity noun · 78% connection

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

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Capstan noun · 78% connection

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…

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Discourse noun · 78% connection

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…

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Force noun · 78% connection

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising…

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Horse power unknown · 78% connection

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…

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