- Acquaint for Inform or tell
- Advert for Refer.
- Adumbrate for Sketch, outline, foreshadow.
- Ameliorate for Better, improve.
- Assist for Help.
- Blue-print for Plan.
- Ceiling for Limit.
- Cross-section for Sample.
- Commence for Begin.
- Deem for Think.
- Conditioned by for Dependent on.
- Consider for Think.
- Drive (intr.) for Came, originate, spring.
- Develop for Take place, occur, happen, grow.
- Entail for Impose, necessitate.
- Envisage for Contemplate, face.
- Eventuate for Come about, happen, occur, result, turn out.
- Evince for Show, manifest, display.
- Factor for Fact, consideration, circumstances, feature, element,
constituent. - Function (verb) for Work, operate, act.
- Inform for Tell.
- In isolation for By itself.
- Initiate for Begin, start.
- Locality for Place.
- Major for Important, chief, main, principal.
- Majority, The. for Most.
- Materialise for Come about, happen, occur.
- Minimise for Under-estimate, disparage, belittle, make light of.
- Practically for Virtually, almost, nearly, all but.
- Proceed for Go.
- A percentage of for Some.
- A Proportion of for Some.
- Purchase for Buy.
- Reaction for Opinion, view.
- Render for Make.
- Reside for Live.
- Residence for Home.
- State for Say.
- Stress (verb) for Emphasise.
- Sufficient for Enough.
- Terminate for End.
- Transmit for Send, forward.
- Visualise for Imagine, picture.
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