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Salute

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

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Credit 76% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Greet 76% connected

Great.

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Greeting 76% connected

of Greet

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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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Praise 76% connected

To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.

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Recognition 76% connected

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

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Recognize 76% connected

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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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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Salutation 76% connected

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; als…

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Smell 76% connected

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate ma…

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Manner of action 2

Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Salaam 76% connected

Same as Salam.

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Derivationally related 8

Pledge 74% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Pledge 74% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Salutation 74% connected

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; als…

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Salutation 74% connected

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; als…

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Saluter 74% connected

One who salutes.

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Saluter 74% connected

One who salutes.

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Toast 74% connected

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

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Toast 74% connected

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

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Entails 6

Booze 72% connected

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

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Drink 72% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Fuddle 72% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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Gesticulate 72% connected

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Gesture 72% connected

Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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Motion 72% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Synonym 6

Drink 92% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Pledge 92% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Present 92% connected

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

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Salutation 92% connected

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; als…

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Toast 92% connected

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wassail 92% connected

An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.

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