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1
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To perceive by the site or some other sense of intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend

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Discern

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To start an enterprise, business etc.

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Embark

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Lefty or Noble

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Haughtiness

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Unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

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Inevitable

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A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

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Mentor

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Seeming reasonable; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable

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Plausible

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To cause a person to accept or be resigned to something not desired

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Reconcile

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The state of being or living alone; seclusion

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Solitude

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The haphazard secondary motion caused by eddies within a moving fluid

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Turbulence

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Shortness of time or duration

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Brevity

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The slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle

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Carnage

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Believe as to the truth of something

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Credence

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Mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain

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Equanimity

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Remarkably clear and direct; sharp; keen; acute

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Incisive

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Event or period of history is something which a direct result of it which continues to exist after it is over

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Legacy

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Rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe

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Stringent

17
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To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting

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Temporize

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Holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold

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Tenacious

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To prove the truth of as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate

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Verify

20
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Officially take possession or control of something especially for military purposes

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Commandeer

21
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To serve as a memorial reminder of

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Commemorate

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Something of use,advantage,or value

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Commodity

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A feeling of deep empathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering

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Compassion

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Required;mandatory;obligated

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Compulsory

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Act of conceiving;state of being conceived

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Conception

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Occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side

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Concurrent

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To seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate,by way of penalty,for public

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Confiscate

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Agreeable,suitable,or pleasing in nature or character

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Congenial

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To come together or assemble,usually for some public purpose

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Convene

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Becoming less intense or widespread

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Abate

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