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Perceptive 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

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Perceptive 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

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Appreciation 76% connected

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

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Bargain 76% connected

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property f…

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Comprehension 76% connected

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

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Confederacy 76% connected

A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

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Conspiracy 76% connected

A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

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Covenant 76% connected

A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Grasp 76% connected

To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

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Grasping 76% connected

Seizing; embracing; catching.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Insight 76% connected

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

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Realization 76% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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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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Reservation 76% connected

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

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Sale 76% connected

See 1st Sallow.

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Self-knowledge 76% connected

Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Smattering 76% connected

A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism.

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Submission 76% connected

The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedienc…

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Faculty 76% connected

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…

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Knowing 76% connected

of Know

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Module 76% connected

A model or measure.

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Statement 76% connected

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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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Reason 74% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Reason 74% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Understand 74% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Understand 74% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Condition 70% 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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Term 70% connected

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

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Agreement 92% 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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Apprehension 92% connected

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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Discernment 92% connected

The act of discerning.

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Intellect 92% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Reason 92% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Sympathy 92% connected

Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if…

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