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State

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Narrower term 101

Action 76% connected

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 acts on another;…

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Activeness 76% connected

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Agency 76% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Ally 76% connected

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often fo…

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Annulment 76% connected

The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.

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Antagonism 76% connected

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

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Being 76% connected

of Be

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Cleavage 76% connected

The act of cleaving or splitting.

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Commonwealth 76% connected

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Conditionality 76% connected

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

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Conflict 76% connected

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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Damnation 76% connected

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

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Death 76% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Delegacy 76% connected

The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

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Dependance 76% connected

Alt. of Dependancy

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Dependence 76% connected

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

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Dependency 76% connected

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

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Destruction 76% connected

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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Disorder 76% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Dominion 76% connected

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Enlargement 76% connected

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

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Enmity 76% connected

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

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Eparchy 76% connected

A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a mo…

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Existence 76% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Fatherland 76% connected

One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Freedom 76% connected

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

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Gas 76% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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Grace 76% connected

The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Hostility 76% connected

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

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Illumination 76% connected

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

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Immatureness 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

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Immaturity 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

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Imminence 76% connected

The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.

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Impendence 76% connected

Alt. of Impendency

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Impendency 76% connected

The state of impending; also, that which impends.

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Imperfection 76% connected

The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

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Imperfectness 76% connected

The state of being imperfect.

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Inaction 76% connected

Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Integrity 76% connected

The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.

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Isomerism 76% connected

The state, quality, or relation, of two or more isomeric substances.

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Kingdom 76% connected

The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Liquid 76% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Liquidity 76% connected

The state or quality of being liquid.

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Liquidness 76% connected

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

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Matureness 76% connected

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

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Maturity 76% connected

The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Motherland 76% connected

The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

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Motion 76% 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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Multivalence 76% connected

Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.

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Obligation 76% connected

The act of obligating.

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Office 76% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Omnipotence 76% connected

Alt. of Omnipotency

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Omniscience 76% connected

The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Ornamentation 76% connected

The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

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Ownership 76% connected

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

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Paternity 76% connected

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

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Perfection 76% connected

The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral exce…

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Phase 76% connected

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same o…

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Plasma 76% connected

A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the anc…

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Plurality 76% connected

The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plural…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Power 76% connected

Same as Poor, the fish.

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Preparation 76% connected

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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Readiness 76% connected

The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

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Receivership 76% connected

The state or office of a receiver.

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Relationship 76% connected

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Revocation 76% connected

The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.

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Separation 76% connected

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.

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Situation 76% connected

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Solid 76% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Solidness 76% connected

State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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Stillness 76% connected

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

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Sultanate 76% connected

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

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Suzerain 76% connected

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

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Technicality 76% connected

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

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Tribalism 76% connected

The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.

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unemployment 76% connected

When people who want work cannot find a job.

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Unification 76% connected

The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.

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Union 76% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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Unity 76% connected

The state of being one; oneness.

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Utilization 76% connected

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

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Utopia 76% connected

An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. Se…

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Wholeness 76% connected

The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

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Wild 76% connected

Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Announce 76% connected

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

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Answer 76% connected

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

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Append 76% connected

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Declare 76% connected

To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Explain 76% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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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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Introduce 76% connected

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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Mention 76% connected

A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

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Misstate 76% connected

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

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Note 76% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

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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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Precede 76% connected

To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

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Preface 76% connected

Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary re…

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Premise 76% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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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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Remark 76% connected

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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Reply 76% connected

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Respond 76% connected

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Sum 76% connected

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…

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Summarize 76% connected

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Vocalize 76% connected

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

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Vote 76% connected

An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Authorities 76% connected

of Authority

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Government 76% connected

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Regime 76% connected

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

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Spirit 76% connected

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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Suggest 76% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Derivationally related 4

Provincial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

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Provincial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

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Say 74% connected

Saw.

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Say 74% connected

Saw.

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Containing group 2

Country 70% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

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Land 70% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Component part 5

Demesne 70% connected

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining,…

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Domain 70% connected

Dominion; empire; authority.

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Estate 70% connected

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

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Land 70% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Midland 70% connected

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.

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Member part 2

Department 70% connected

Act of departing; departure.

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Province 70% connected

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

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Attribute 6

Gaseous 66% connected

In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.

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Gaseous 66% connected

In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.

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Liquid 66% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Liquid 66% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Solid 66% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Solid 66% connected

Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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Synonym 10

Commonwealth 92% connected

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

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Country 92% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Express 92% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Land 92% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Nation 92% connected

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

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Posit 92% connected

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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Province 92% connected

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

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Say 92% connected

Saw.

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Submit 92% connected

To let down; to lower.

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Tell 92% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Near synonym 1

Say 92% connected

Saw.

general 78% interchangeable

State overlaps with say, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Formal equivalent 1

Say 88% connected

Saw.

reporting 78% interchangeable less formal

State is a neutral formal reporting verb.

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