| allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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| collude | (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspire |
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| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| exclude | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, debar |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: keep out, shut, shut out |
| (verb) lack or fail to include | - |
| include | (verb) add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category | - |
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| (verb) consider as part of something | - |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: admit, let in |
| (verb) have as a part, be made up out of | - |
| interlude | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, intermezzo |
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| (noun) an intervening period or episode | - |
| (verb) perform an interlude | - |
| occlude | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate |
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| postlude | (noun) a voluntary played at the end of a religious service | - |
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| preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, prevent |
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| (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand | Synonyms: close out, rule out |
| prelude | (noun) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera | - |
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| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, preliminary |
| (verb) play as a prelude | - |
| (verb) serve as a prelude or opening to | - |
| seclude | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, withdraw |
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