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Success

Act of succeeding; succession.

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Actor 76% connected

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

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Attainment 76% connected

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Prosperity 76% connected

The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the ob…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Bang 76% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Bull's-eye 76% connected

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

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Conquest 76% connected

The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection…

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Coup 76% connected

A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

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Godspeed 76% connected

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you."

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Great 76% connected

Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, lengt…

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Highflier 76% connected

One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Natural 76% connected

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characterist…

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Overturn 76% connected

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Passing 76% connected

of Pass

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Qualifying 76% connected

of Qualify

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Score 76% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Seduction 76% connected

The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticemen…

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Sleeper 76% connected

One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

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Smash 76% connected

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Smasher 76% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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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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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Triumph 76% connected

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Victory 76% connected

The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph;…

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Winning 76% connected

of Win

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Successful 66% connected

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; h…

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Successful 66% connected

Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; h…

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Unsuccessful 66% connected

Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy.

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Unsuccessful 66% connected

Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy.

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Synonym 3

Achiever 92% connected

One who achieves; a winner.

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Succeeder 92% connected

A successor.

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Winner 92% connected

One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

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Failure 94% connected

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

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Failure 94% connected

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

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