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Resource

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Armory 76% connected

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

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Assistance 76% connected

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

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Backing 76% connected

of Back

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Funding 76% connected

of Fund

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Inventory 76% connected

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a decea…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Keep 76% connected

To care; to desire.

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Livelihood 76% connected

Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.

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Living 76% connected

of Live

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Recourse 76% connected

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.

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Refuge 76% connected

Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

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Resort 76% connected

Active power or movement; spring.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Sustenance 76% connected

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

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Asset 76% connected

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

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Assets 76% connected

Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or…

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Cleverness 76% connected

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

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Ingeniousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.

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Ingenuity 76% connected

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.

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Plus 76% connected

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

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Imagination 92% connected

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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