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Statement

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Narrower term 64

Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Adducing 76% connected

of Adduce

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Agreement 76% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Amendment 76% connected

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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Announcement 76% connected

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

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Annunciation 76% connected

The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.

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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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Assurance 76% connected

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

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Augmentation 76% connected

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

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Bid 76% connected

of Bid

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Bidding 76% connected

of Bid

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Bill 76% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Case 76% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Clincher 76% connected

One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.

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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Commentary 76% connected

A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

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Con 76% connected

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

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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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Counterargument 76% connected

A reasoned case against the position being discussed.

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Declaration 76% connected

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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Description 76% connected

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

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Determiner 76% connected

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

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Diminution 76% connected

The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Explanation 76% connected

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Falsehood 76% connected

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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Falsity 76% connected

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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Foretelling 76% connected

of Foretell

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Formula 76% connected

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

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Invoice 76% connected

A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges ann…

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Misstatement 76% connected

An incorrect statement.

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Negation 76% connected

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; de…

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Pleading 76% connected

of Plead

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Prediction 76% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Pro 76% connected

A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.

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Proclamation 76% connected

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.

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Prognostication 76% connected

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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Promulgation 76% connected

The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel.

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Proposition 76% connected

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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Qualification 76% connected

The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.

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Quotation 76% connected

The act of quoting or citing.

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Recital 76% connected

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

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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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Representation 76% connected

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

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Reservation 76% connected

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

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Resolution 76% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Response 76% connected

The act of responding.

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Result 76% connected

To leap back; to rebound.

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Solution 76% connected

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

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Solvent 76% connected

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

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Summary 76% connected

Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

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Term 76% connected

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Toggle 76% connected

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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Truth 76% connected

The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

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Understatement 76% connected

The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

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Untruth 76% connected

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

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Word 76% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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Code 76% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Evidence 76% connected

That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the…

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Theme 76% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Say 74% connected

Saw.

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Say 74% connected

Saw.

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Containing whole 2

Program 70% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 70% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Synonym 5

Affirmation 92% connected

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

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Argument 92% connected

Proof; evidence.

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Assertion 92% connected

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

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Command 92% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Instruction 92% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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