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usurpation
say-so
authority
dominance
authorization
potency
authorisation
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exaction
accountability
empower
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laying claim
answerability
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commandeer
job
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apprehend
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gift
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repose
relaxation
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rest
self-reliant
self-directed
on the docket
appropriative
facultative
seizing
autonomous
arrogate
procurance
procurement
procural
for one's own hand
co-opt
freedom
exemption
letting-in
favor
help
avail
favour
predisposal
preoccupy
skulk
entry
monopoly
preemption
access
entitlement
pre-emption
prevention
reticence
let me see
advantage
permitting
sublative
succession
queer
pull the ladder up behind oneself
spoil
take the initiative
bilk
take it upon oneself
baffle
cross
foil
self-denial
self-control
thwart
possession
self-discipline
appropriation
play
frustrate
on offer
unaccountable
robbery
scotch
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away
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job
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queer
pull the ladder up behind oneself
spoil
take the initiative
bilk
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baffle
cross
foil
thwart
play
frustrate
scotch
noun
- the act of taking something that is offered
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
noun
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- an expert whose views are taken as definitive
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- an administrative unit of government
- official permission or approval
- an authoritative written work
noun
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- superior development of one side of the body
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
noun
- the responsibility to do something
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- the performance of a piece of work
- a damaging piece of work
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a crime (especially a robbery)
verb
verb
- To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To understand.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
noun
- The or an act of taking.
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
adv
- from one's possession
- away from home
- moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
verb
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
noun
adj
- being out or having grown cold
- not worth considering as a possibility
- out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
- excluded from use or mention
- directed outward or serving to direct something outward
- no longer fashionable
- outside or external
- outer or outlying
- knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
adj
adv
- from one's possession
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- out of existence
- at a distance in space or time
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- freely or at will
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in a different direction
- in reserve; not for immediate use
adj
adj
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
- (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening
- a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- the act of making less strict
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment
verb
noun
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a pause for relaxation
- a state of inaction
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- a support on which things can be put
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
verb
- not move; be in a resting position
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- give a rest to
- have a place in relation to something else
- be at rest
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- sit, as on a branch
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- be inactive, refrain from acting
prep_phrase
adj
noun
- The act of taking possession.
- The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- Permission to enter.
- The start of an insurance contract.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- A term at any position in a matrix.
- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
noun
- the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
- the right to enter
- a way of entering or leaving
- a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
- (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
- the act of approaching or entering
verb
noun
- Followed by of: discretion or restraint in the use of something.
- Often followed by to: hesitancy or reluctance (to do something).
- Avoidance of saying or reluctance to say too much; discretion, tight-lippedness; (countable) an instance of acting in this manner.
- A silent and reserved nature.
verb
phrase
- Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
- Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
- Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
verb
- to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
- to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
noun
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
adj
noun
noun
- A right to take possession.
- In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- An act of following in sequence.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- Rotation, as of crops.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- travel across or pass over
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- meet and pass
- trace a line through or across
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
adj
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
noun
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
verb
noun
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
noun
- Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
- The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- Something that is owned.
- Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- A territory under the rule of another country.
- The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
verb
- use to one's advantage
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
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