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O — Obscurity to Often (Part 6 of 11)

    4. Follow, pursue, be engaged with.
    5. Employ, busy, engage.

Occur, v. n.

    1. Appear, arise, offer, come into view, present itself, be met with, meet the eye, be found.
    2. Come to one’s mind, come into one’s head, flash on the mind, present itself, appear.
    3. Befall, happen, fall out, take place, come about, come to pass.

Occurrence, n. Incident, event, accident, casualty, adventure, affair, transaction, proceeding.

Ocean, n.

    1. Sea, main, deep, great deep, great sea, high sea.
    2. Immense expanse, infinity.

Oceanic, a. Marine, pelagic, Neptunian.

Ochlocracy, n. Mobocracy, mob-government.

Octagon, n. Eight-sided figure.

Octagonal, a. Eight-sided, eight-angled.

Octopus, n. Cuttlefish, ink-fish, squid (Sepia officinalis).

Octuple, a. Eightfold.

Od, n. Odyle, odyllic force, odic force, odyl.

Odd, a.

    1. Uneven, not divisible by 2.
    2. Unmatched, single (of a pair or set).
    3. Supernumerary, redundant, left over (from a specified number), additional, remaining.
    4. Unheeded.
    5. Retired, secluded.