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Deduce

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Reach a coclusion by thinking carefully about the known facts

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Advocate

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To publicly support or suggest an udea, development or way of doing something

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Infer

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Reach a conclusion indirectly

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Complement

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To make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it

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Overlap

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If two or more activities, subjects or periods of time overlap, they have some parts which are the same

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Empirical

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Based on what is observed rather than theory

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Ambiguous

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Open to different interpretations

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Coherent

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Logically structured

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Comprehensive

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Covering all that us relevant

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Authoritative

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Thorough and expert

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Arbitrary

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Based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason

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Deviate from

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To go in a different direction

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Distort

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To change something from its usual, original, natural or intended meaning, condition or shape

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Incidence

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An event, or the rate at which something happens

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Predominant

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More noticeable or important, or larger in number, than others

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In sequence

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In a particular order

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Widespread

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Existing or happening in many places and/or among many people

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Append

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Add (at the end)

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Conceive

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Think up, to invent a plan or an idea

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Contradict

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Go against

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Demonstrate/indicate

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Show

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Denote

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Be a sign of, stand for

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Negate

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Make useless, wipe out

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Perceive

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See

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Reflect upon

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Think about

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Reside

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Live

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Trigger

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Cause

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Utilize

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Use

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The instance of something

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An example of something

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The converse

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The opposite

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Crucial

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Very important

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Notwithstanding

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Despite this

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Somewhat

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Rather

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Thereby

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In this way

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Whereby

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By which (method)