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Urge

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Counsel 76% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Encourage 76% connected

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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motivation 76% connected

The reasons and energy that drive someone to act.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Motive 76% connected

That which moves; a mover.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Rede 76% connected

To advise or counsel.

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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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Manner of action 6

Advocate 76% connected

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurry 76% connected

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Preach 76% connected

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prescribe 76% connected

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 8

Exhortation 74% connected

The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exhortation 74% connected

The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exhortatory 74% connected

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exhortatory 74% connected

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Itch 74% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Itch 74% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Advocate 92% connected

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Barrack 92% connected

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cheer 92% connected

The face; the countenance or its expression.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exhort 92% connected

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; he…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Impulse 92% connected

The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediatel…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inspire 92% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Itch 92% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Press 92% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recommend 92% connected

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a fav…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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