to cast or draw lots

  • 61speculate — Synonyms and related words: be abstracted, be caught short, be short, belong, brood, bucket, bucketshop, buy in, buy into, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, cast lots, cerebrate, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate,… …

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  • 62toss — Synonyms and related words: agitate, agonize, be poised, billow, blind bargain, blunder, bob, bobble, bowl, break, bung, call, careen, career, cast, cast at, cast lots, catapult, chance at odds, change of pace, change up, chuck, chuck at, chunk,… …

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  • 63lot — Synonyms and related words: A to Z, A to izzard, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, a mass of, a world of, abundance, accidentality, acres, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, affluence, aggregate, aggregation, all, all and sundry, allocate,… …

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  • 64call — Synonyms and related words: Angelus, Angelus bell, DDD, accompany, address, adjuration, adumbrate, alarm, alarum, allurement, animal noise, ante, ante up, antecedents, apostleship, apostrophize, appeal, appeal to, appraise, appreciate,… …

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  • 65lot — ► PRONOUN informal 1) (a lot or lots) a large number or amount; a great deal. 2) (the lot) chiefly Brit. the whole number or quantity. ► ADVERB (a lot or lots) informal ▪ a great deal …

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  • 66raffle — Synonyms and related words: bingo, call, cast lots, class lottery, cut lots, cut the cards, draft lottery, draw, draw lots, draw straws, drawing, gamble, game, grab bag, interest lottery, keno, lot, lottery, lotto, match coins, number lottery,… …

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  • 67Azazel — (Aramaic: רמשנאל, Hebrew: עזאזל, Aze ezel Arabic: عزازل Azazil ) is an enigmatic name from the Hebrew scriptures and Apocrypha, where the name is used interchangeably with Rameel and Gadriel. The word s first appearance is in Leviticus 16, where… …

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  • 68play — Synonyms and related words: ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, abuse, accentuate, accompany, act, act a part, act as, act as foil, act out, act up, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, ad lib, affect, agree, air …

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  • 69lot — noun 1 LARGE AMOUNT a lot also lots informal a large quantity or number: The stereo cost a lot, but it was worth it. | How much ice cream do you want? Lots, please. (+ of): There were lots of people at the party. | a lot to do/see/eat etc: There… …

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  • 70chess — chess1 /ches/, n. a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard. [1150 1200; ME < OF esches, pl. of eschec CHECK1] chess2 /ches/, n., pl. chess, chesses. one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge. [1425 75;&#8230; …

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