Definition: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
Usage: she embarked upon a new career
Similar words: commence, start, start out, set about, set out, get, get down, begin
Definition: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
Usage: We began working at dawn; Who will start?; Get working as soon as the sun rises!; The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia; He began early in the day; Let's get down to work now
Synonyms: record, put down, enter
Definition: make a record of; set down in permanent form
Definition: to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
Usage: She saved the old family photographs in a drawer
Synonyms: enter, infix, insert, introduce
Definition: put or introduce into something
Usage: insert a picture into the text
Similar words: attach
Definition: cause to be attached
Definition: take on duties or office
Usage: accede to the throne
Similar words: take office
Definition: assume an office, duty, or title
Usage: When will the new President take office?
Similar words: succeed, come after, follow
Definition: be the successor (of)
Usage: Carter followed Ford; Will Charles succeed to the throne?
Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, recruit
Definition: register formally as a participant or member
Usage: The party recruited many new members
Similar words: register
Definition: record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
Definition: be or play a part of or in
Usage: Elections figure prominently in every government program; How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer