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Wonder

That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.

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Amazement 76% connected

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.

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Astonishment 76% connected

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.

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Contemplate 76% connected

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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Excogitate 76% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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Happening 76% connected

of Happen

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Intellect 76% 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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Intellectual 76% connected

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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Meditate 76% connected

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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Mull 76% connected

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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Muse 76% connected

A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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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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Ponder 76% connected

To weigh.

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Query 76% connected

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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React 76% connected

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

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Reflect 76% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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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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Ruminate 76% connected

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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Awe 76% connected

Dread; great fear mingled with respect.

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Curiousness 76% connected

Carefulness; painstaking.

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Inquisitiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolle…

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Interest 76% connected

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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Involvement 76% connected

The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

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Prodigy 76% connected

Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed…

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Scruple 76% connected

A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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Derivationally related 10

Enquire 74% connected

See Inquire.

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Enquire 74% connected

See Inquire.

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Marvel 74% connected

That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

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Marvel 74% connected

That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

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Marvelous 74% connected

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

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Marvelous 74% connected

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

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Question 74% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Question 74% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Wonderer 74% connected

One who wonders.

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Wonderer 74% connected

One who wonders.

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Synonym 9

Admiration 92% connected

Wonder; astonishment.

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Brain 92% connected

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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Curiosity 92% connected

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enquire 92% connected

See Inquire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Genius 92% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inquire 92% connected

To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Marvel 92% connected

That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Question 92% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wonderment 92% connected

Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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