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., abstract, abuse, accept, acceptable, accommodate, accoutered, accoutred, acreage, act, adapt, adapted, adequate, ad hoc, administration, administrative hearing, adventurer, affirmation, afforestation, agree, aid, aimlessness, allocate, allocation, allotment, altered, amphibious demonstration, answer, antithetic, antithetical, apart, appeal, application, apply, apportion, appropriation, appropriation bill, area, army, arousal, artificial language, aside, assemblage, assembly, assessable, assessor, assign, assist, assistance, assistant, backlog, bail, ball cartridge, basic, bay, bent, bent onp, bhagavadgita, bhagavad-gita, board, boy scouts of america, brass, break-in, breaking and entering, budget, cadaster, cadastre, camp, centered, centralised, centralized, centred, clique, club, collude, combination, combine, come in handy, come up, coming together, commendable, commitment, committedness, competent, concoction, confederacy, configure, congregate, connect, consecrate, consecrated, consecration, consortium, conspiracy, conspire, constant, contrary, contribution, convenient, conversion, convert, cooperative, cornhusking, corresponding, cosmetic, coterie, country, county, data link, day, dead setp, decent, decision, decisiveness, decorative, dedicated, dedication, deliberate, design, designed, destruction fire, desultory, development, device, devon, devote, devotedp, devotion, dictate, disclosed, divestiture, divided, divided up, donation, dysfunctional, edifying, effecter, effective, effector, efficient, electronic device, electronic jamming, electronic warfare-support measures, electron microscope, employ, enclosure, engine, enhancive, enough, equip, equipped, esm, establishment, eurocurrency, expedient, expedition, exploration, explorer, expostulate, expressly, facility, failure, federalise, federalize, federate, find, fingerprinting, firmness, fit, fit fora, fit out, fit toa, fix, focused, followup, follow-up, fortification, full, fumigation, function, functionalism, functionality, fund, fundraiser, furnished, gallery, gear, gear mechanism, gear up, genetic fingerprinting, genetic profiling, geographic expedition, get hold, get together, gita, goal-directed, good, governance, governing body, hatch, hearing, help, helper, hindemith, hookup, horse race, housebreaking, husking bee, ignoble, implement, improper, incompetent, inconvenient, indecision, indecisiveness, ineptness, inexpedient, infiltrator, infirm, inflexible, ingroup, inner circle, insinuatingly, institution, instrumentality, intend, intentional, intent onp, interpreter, intervention, interview, irresoluteness, irresolution, irrigate, jam, jamming, judicial, kit, kludge, knowing, land area, lather, lay out, libel, line up, link, map, mean, meaningful, meaningless, meet, meeting, merry-go-round, misuse, misused, monetary fund, morale, motivation, motive, move around, musical soiree, need, neoplasm, nonadaptive, nonmeaningful, offensive, operable, opportune, organisation, organization, ornamental, ostensible, ostensibly, otiose, outfit, outfitter, out top, pack, panel, paraphrase, paraphrasis, patrol, paul hindemith, pervert, place, pointless, pool, practicable, practical, practical application, preamble, premeditated, preparation, prepare, presupposition, process, propaganda, property, protology, purpose-built, purposeful, purposefulness, purposeless, purposelessly, purposelessness, purpose-made, purposive, raise, raison d'etre, rallying, random, ready, readying, reexamination, relative quantity, representative, reservation, reserve, resolute, resolutely, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, retool, review, revise, rewrite, rhode island red, right, ripe, rough-and-ready, sacred, sake, salve, sameness, select committee, self-defeating, sense of purpose, serve, serviceable, set, set apart, set up, shared, shared out, shoehorn, simulation, simulator, single-mindedness, singleness, slate club, soap, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree musicale, space, special, specialisation, specialise, specialization, specialize, specify, spokesperson, staff, station, stipend, stockpile, stone, subcommittee, success, sufficiency, suitability, suitable, suitableness, superfluous, supporter, syndicate, tailor, take, tax assessor, theoterrorism, think, tract, travel, treat, trip, tumble, tumor, tumour, turnout, ulterior, unadapted, undaunted, undesigned, undismayed, unfit, unify, unintentional, unite, unnaturally, unshaken, unspecialised, unspecialized, unsuitability, unsuitable, unsuitableness, unwise, use, utilise, utilize, vacillant, vacillating, view, voice, ward, wasted, wavering, welsh, welsh black, whereto, whip-round, wholeheartedness, wilful, will, willful, with specific intentions, work, wrong

Synonyms:
aim, design, determination, function, intent, intention, propose, purport, resolve, role, use

Often used in the same context:
aim, cause, circus, determination, direction, function, furnace, intent, intention, meaning, nervous, porpoise, purchase, pus, puss, reason, role, service, surface, use, verses, worthless

More specific:
cross-purpose, diligence, doggedness, idea, indefatigability, indefatigableness, industriousness, industry, mind, perseverence, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, raison d'etre, sake, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, view, will

More general:
decide, determine, end, firmness, goal, intend, make up one's mind, mean, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, think, usefulness, utility



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