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  • 91corresponding — I adjective accordant, agreeing, akin, analogous, answerable, apposite, coequal, coextensive, cognate, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, commensurate, comparable, compatible, concerted, concomitant, concordant, conformable, congenial,… …

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  • 92proportionate — I adjective agreeing, analogous, balanced, commeasurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, consistent, correlative, corresponding, distributional, equivalent, even, harmonious, proportionable, proportional, relative, scaled,… …

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  • 93suitable — I adjective acceptable, accommodating, accordant, adapted, adequate, admissible, advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, aptus, becoming, befitting, commensurate, commodious, compatible, condign, conformable,… …

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  • 94equivalent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. equal, tantamount, synonymous; analogous, correspondent, interchangeable; convertible, reciprocal. n. equal; worth; analogue. See compensation, substitution, equality, interpretation. II (Roget s… …

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  • 95proportionate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. commensurate, proportionable, proportional, according. See agreement, relation. Ant., incommensurate. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Properly or correspondingly related in size, amount, or… …

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  • 96Agreement — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Agreement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 agreement agreement Sgm: N 1 accord accord accordance Sgm: N 1 unison unison harmony Sgm: N 1 concord concord &c. 714 Sgm: N 1 concordance …

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  • 97measure — [13] The distant ancestor of English measure was the Indo European base *ma , *me ‘measure’. This has generated a wide range of often unexpected English progeny, including meal ‘repast’, month, and moon. Measure itself comes from an extension of… …

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  • 98incommensurate — (adj.) 1640s, from IN (Cf. in ) (1) not, opposite of + COMMENSURATE (Cf. commensurate) …

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  • 99meet — {{11}}meet (adj.) proper, fitting, O.E. gemæte, Anglian *gemete, suitable, having the same dimensions, from P.Gmc. *ga mætijaz (Cf. O.N. mætr, O.H.G. gimagi, Ger. gemäß suitable ), from collective prefix *ga + PIE *med to measure (see MEDICAL (Cf …

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  • 100equal — I. a. 1. Like, alike, tantamount, equivalent; of the same extent, measure, degree, or value, identical in quantity or value. 2. Of the same rank. 3. Uniform, even, regular, equable. 4. Impartial, unbiassed, equitable, fair, just, even handed. 5.… …

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