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Synonyms: attached, related, joined.

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Affiliated

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Synonyms: Discover, determine, establish

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Ascertain

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Attainment

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Achievement, fulfilment.

“In addition to his abilities as a leader, Abraham Lincoln was a man of high literary attainment”.

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Bequeath

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Transmit, hand down.

“Bequeath a fortune to their heirs”.

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Synonyms: persuasive, compelling.

“Legal scholars held a press conference to present a cogent plea for reform”.

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Cogent

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Antonyms: Failure, defeat, frustration.

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Attainment

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Converge

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meet, unite, intersect, merge.

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Disperse

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Break up, dispel.

“The commissioner ordered the police to disperse the crowd’.

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Antonym: diverge, separate

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converge.

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esteem

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to regard highly; highly favorable

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expunge

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to erase, obliterate

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finite

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having linits

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not being able to be wounded or hurt

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Invulnerable

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spiteful, showing il will

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malevolent

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nonchalant

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cool and confident

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Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding

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Omniscient

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remedy for ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems

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panacea

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Scrupulous

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EXACT, careful, attending thoroughly to details.

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skulk

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to move about stealthily

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supercilious

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snobbish, patronzing

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uncanny

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eerie, spooky

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venial

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excusable