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pursue

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.

Verb : (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).

take

Verb : (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Verb : (transitive) To seize or capture.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

operate

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

retain

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.

Verb : (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.

plight

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.

Verb : (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

Verb : (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

occupy

Verb : (transitive, of time) To take or use.

Verb : To fill.

Verb : To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.

employ

Verb : To retain (someone) as an employee.

Verb : (rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

Verb : To use (someone or something) for a job or task.

prosecute

Verb : (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.

Verb : (transitive, law) To charge, try.

Verb : To seek to obtain by legal process.

hire

Verb : (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

Verb : (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Verb : (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

enlist

Verb : (transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

Verb : (intransitive) To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.

Verb : (transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.

affiance

Verb : (transitive) To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.

betroth

Verb : To promise to give in marriage.

Verb : To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

engross

Verb : (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

Verb : (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

wage

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.

rent

Verb : (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.

Verb : (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

lease

Verb : (transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To hold a lease as a tenant.

Verb : (transitive) To gather.

charter

Verb : (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.

Verb : (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.

Verb : (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

absorb

Verb : (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

Verb : (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

lock

Verb : (intransitive) To become fastened in place.

Verb : (transitive) To fasten with a lock.

Verb : (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

mesh

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously.

Verb : (transitive) To catch in a mesh.

stimulate

Verb : To encourage into action.

Verb : To arouse an organism to functional activity.

instigate

Verb : (transitive) To bring about by urging or encouraging.

Verb : (transitive) To goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions.

incitement

Noun : A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.

encourage

Verb : To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

Verb : To spur on, strongly recommend.

Verb : To foster, give help or patronage

motivate

Verb : (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.

Verb : (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

incite

Verb : (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

exert

Verb : To put in vigorous action.

Verb : To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.

involved

Adjective : Complicated.

Adjective : Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

Adjective : Having an affair with someone.

encouraging

Adjective : Giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.

Adjective : Supporting by giving encouragement.

Noun : encouragement

activate

Verb : (transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.

Verb : (transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

Verb : (transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.

strive

Verb : To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

Verb : To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.

Verb : To vie; to compete as a rival.

endeavour

Verb : (British spelling) Standard spelling of endeavor.

urge

Verb : (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Verb : (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

Verb : (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.

contact

Verb : (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To touch; to come into physical contact with.

Verb : (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To establish communication with (something or someone).

touch

Verb : Primarily physical senses.

Verb : (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

Verb : (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

play

Verb : (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).

Verb : (transitive) To compete against, in a game.

interfere

Verb : (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.

Verb : (intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.

Verb : (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

elicit

Verb : To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

Verb : To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

Verb : To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason

compel

Verb : (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up

Verb : (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.

Verb : (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.

persuade

Verb : (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something).

Verb : (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).

incentivize

Verb : (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

Verb : (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

induce

Verb : (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

Verb : (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

Verb : (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).

convince

Verb : To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.

Verb : To persuade.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

encumber

Verb : (transitive) To load down something with a burden.

Verb : (transitive) To restrict or block something with a hindrance or impediment.

Verb : (transitive) To burden with a legal claim or other obligation.

indulge

Verb : (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.

Verb : (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.

Verb : To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.

achieve

Verb : (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

Verb : (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

inspire

Verb : (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

Verb : (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.

Verb : (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.

incur

Verb : (transitive) to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to

Verb : (chiefly law, accounting) to render somebody liable or subject to

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) to enter or pass into

hold

Verb : (transitive) To grasp or grip.

Verb : (transitive) To contain or store.

Verb : (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.

follow

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.

Verb : (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

develop

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To discover, find out; to uncover.

Verb : (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

accomplish

Verb : (transitive) To finish successfully.

Verb : (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.

Verb : (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

seek

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.

Verb : (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

Verb : (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

attack

Verb : (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

Verb : (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).

Verb : (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

begin

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

Verb : (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation

Verb : (intransitive) To come into existence.

prompt

Verb : (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.

Verb : (transitive) To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.

Verb : (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

intervene

Verb : (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.

Verb : (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.

Verb : (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.

solicit

Verb : (transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.

Verb : (transitive) To woo; to court.

Verb : (transitive) To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.

get

Verb : (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Verb : (transitive) To receive.

Verb : (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

maintain

Verb : To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

Verb : To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

Verb : To keep in good condition and working order.

become

Verb : (copulative) begin to be; turn into.

Verb : (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.

Verb : (transitive) To be proper for; to beseem.

entice

Verb : (transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

undertake

Verb : (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

Verb : (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

Verb : (Britain, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

open

Verb : (transitive) To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.

Verb : (transitive) To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.

commence

Verb : (intransitive) To begin, start.

Verb : (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.

Verb : (UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

intercept

Verb : (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).

Verb : (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

Verb : (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.

attend

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To listen (to, unto).

Verb : (intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.

jeopardize

Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

talk

Verb : (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.

Verb : (transitive) To speak (a certain language).

obtain

Verb : (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.

inviting

Adjective : Alluring; tempting; attractive.

Noun : invitation

keep

Verb : To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

Verb : To remain faithful to a given promise or word.

Verb : (transitive) To hold the status of something.

proceed

Verb : (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on

Verb : (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

Verb : (intransitive) To come from; to have as its source or origin.

start

Verb : (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.

Verb : To set in motion.

Verb : To begin.

starting

Noun : The act of something that starts.

attract

Verb : (transitive) To pull toward without touching.

Verb : (transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

Verb : (transitive) To incur.

promote

Verb : (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

Verb : (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

Verb : (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.

discuss

Verb : (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.

sustain

Verb : (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.

Verb : (transitive) To provide for or nourish.

Verb : (transitive) To encourage or sanction (something).

celebrate

Verb : (transitive) To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

Verb : (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.

Verb : (intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.

perform

Verb : (transitive) To do (something); to execute.

Verb : (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.

Verb : (law) To act in a way set forth in a contract.

enter

Verb : (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

Verb : (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).

generate

Verb : (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.

Verb : (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

Verb : (transitive) To procreate, beget.

commencement

Noun : The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; the beginning.

Noun : The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.

Noun : A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university. Sometimes before the actual graduation.

apply

Verb : (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)

Verb : (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

Verb : (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative

expend

Verb : (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)

introduce

Verb : (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).

Verb : (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.

Verb : (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.

capture

Verb : (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

Verb : (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.

Verb : (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.

pull

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.

Verb : To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

Verb : (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.

conclude

Verb : (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

Verb : (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

Verb : (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

undermine

Verb : To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.

Verb : (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

Verb : To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.

interact

Verb : (intransitive) To act upon each other.

Verb : (of people) To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

Verb : (of two or more things) To affect each other.

bring

Verb : (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.

Verb : (transitive) To occasion or bring about.

invite

Verb : (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

Verb : (transitive) To request formally.

Verb : (transitive) To encourage.

involvement

Noun : The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

participate

Verb : (intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To share, to take part in (something).

Verb : (obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.

perpetrate

Verb : (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

devote

Verb : to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter

Verb : to consign over; to doom

Verb : to execrate; to curse

access

Verb : (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

Verb : (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).

set

Verb : (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

Verb : (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.

Verb : (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.

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