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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking in, initiation |
| Synonyms: | consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural, inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction, investiture, ordination, selection |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, expulsion, rejection |
| Main Entry: | accession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to power |
| Synonyms: | assumption, attainment, inauguration, induction, investment, succession, taking on, taking over |
| Antonyms: | decline, fall |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | corollary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, deduction |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, analogy, consequence, culmination, effect, end, end product, induction, inference, issue, precipitate, result, sequel, sequence, upshot |
| Main Entry: | demonstration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | display of proof |
| Synonyms: | affirmation, confirmation, description, evidence, exhibition, explanation, exposition, expression, illustration, induction, manifestation, presentation, proof, show, spectacle, substantiation, test, testimony, trial, validation |
| Antonyms: | concealment, hiding |
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military conscription |
| Synonyms: | allotment, assignment, call of duty, call-up, greetings, impressment, induction, letter from Uncle Sam, levy, lottery, recruiting, registration, roll call, selection, selective service |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Main Entry: | enrollment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | registration for membership |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, admission, conscription, engagement, enlistment, entrance, entry, induction, influx, listing, matriculation, rally, reception, record, recruitment, response, student body, students, subscription |
| Main Entry: | entrée |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance |
| Synonyms: | access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, importation, in, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open arms, open door, way |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, rejection |
| Main Entry: | formation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composition, establishment |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, architecture, arrangement, compilation, configuration, constitution, construction, creation, crystallization, deposit, design, development, dispersal, disposition, embodiment, evolution, fabrication, figure, forming, generation, genesis, grouping, induction, makeup, manufacture, order, organization, pattern, production, rank, structure, synthesis |
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