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Star

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Major 84% connected

Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

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Major 84% connected

Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Character 76% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Expert 76% connected

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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graph 76% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Histrion 76% connected

A player.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Performer 76% connected

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a…

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Player 76% connected

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Thespian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.

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Topology 76% connected

The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

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Asterism 76% connected

A constellation.

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Binary 76% connected

Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

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Giant 76% connected

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

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Idol 76% connected

An image or representation of anything.

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Loadstar 76% connected

Alt. of Lodestar

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Lodestar 76% connected

A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.

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Pentacle 76% connected

A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with supersti…

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Pentagram 76% connected

A pentacle or a pentalpha.

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Pentangle 76% connected

A pentagon.

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Sun 76% connected

See Sunn.

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Variable 76% connected

Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.

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Asterisk 74% connected

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or w…

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Asterisk 74% connected

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or w…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Lead 74% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lead 74% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Starry 74% connected

Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

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Starry 74% connected

Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.

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Constellation 70% connected

A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage,…

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Galaxy 70% connected

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so dis…

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Synonym 14

Ace 92% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Adept 92% connected

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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Asterisk 92% connected

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Champion 92% connected

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Genius 92% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Lead 92% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leading 92% connected

of Lead

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Principal 92% connected

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

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Sensation 92% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Starring 92% connected

of Star

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Stellar 92% connected

Alt. of Stellary

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Virtuoso 92% connected

One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

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Whiz 92% connected

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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Wizard 92% connected

A wise man; a sage.

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