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Assist :: Assist (v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor..

Back :: Back (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words..

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..

Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking..

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement..

Career :: Career (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier..

Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc..

Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.

Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..

Premium :: Premium (n.) A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind..

Partnership :: Partnership (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership..

Auspicate :: Auspicate (v. t.) To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business..

Perilous :: Perilous (a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking..

Venture :: Venture (n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

Completion :: Completion (n.) The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service..

Piratical :: Piratical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking..

Contingent :: Contingent (a.) Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control..

Disastrous :: Disastrous (a.) Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking..

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