readying

• accustoming
• adapting
• adjusting
• ahead
• alertness
• anticipation
• arming
• arrangement
• arranging
• authorizing
• background
• base
• basic
• basics
• basis
• battening
• beginning
• bolstering
• boosting
• bracing
• buildup
• burdening
• buttressing
• call
• chalk talk
• charging
• coaching
• comforting
• conditioning
• construction
• cramming
• cultivation
• cumbering
• description
• development
• didactics
• direction
• discipline
• domestication
• drafting
• drawing up
• drill
• dry run
• early
• edification
• educating
• education
• elemental
• elementary
• emboldening
• empowering
• enabling
• encouraging
• encumbering
• enforcing
• enlightenment
• entitling
• equipping
• establishment
• evolution
• exercise
• expectation
• experiment
• exploratory
• filling
• first
• fitting
• fixing
• forearming
• foresight
• formation
• former
• fortifying
• foundation
• framing
• fundamental
• furnishing
• gathering
• gearing up
• gestation
• getting ready
• girding
• going-over
• grooming
• grounding
• groundwork
• guidance
• habituating
• hardening
• heartening
• higher education
• higher learning
• homework
• improvement
• inclining
• incubation
• indoctrinating
• indoctrination
• inductive
• initiatory
• inspiring
• instructing
• instruction
• introducing
• introductory
• inuring
• lading
• laying
• lead time
• making ready
• manufacture
• measure
• mounting
• nerving
• nurturance
• nurturing
• opening
• outfitting
• packing
• pedagogics
• pedagogy
• pilot
• plan
• poising
• practice
• practice session
• precaution
• preceding
• precursory
• predisposing
• prefacing
• prefatory
• prelim
• preliminaries
• preliminary
• prelusive
• premonitory
• prep
• preparation
• preparative
• preparatory
• preparedness
• preparing
• prepping
• previous
• primal
• primary
• priming
• principles
• prior
• providing
• provision
• putting in order
• qualification
• qualifying
• rallying
• reading
• recital
• recitation
• recounting
• reenforcing
• rehearsal
• rehearsing
• reinforcing
• relation
• retelling
• rousing
• run through
• rundown
• safeguard
• schooling
• schoolwork
• seasoning
• setting
• shakedown
• shaping
• sharpening
• spreading
• steeling
• stirring
• storing
• strengthening
• study
• substructure
• supplying
• supporting
• sustaining
• tailoring
• teaching
• test
• test flight
• toughening
• training
• trial
• trial balloon
• trial performance
• tryout
• tuition
• tune-up
• tutelage
• tutoring
• upbringing
• warmup
• warning
• workout

• additional
• after
• behind
• closing
• cold turkey
• concluding
• daunting
• debilitating
• demoralizing
• destruction
• discouraging
• disheartening
• dispiriting
• enervating
• enfeebling
• extra
• final
• following
• ignorance
• ingredient
• neglect
• prostrating
• sapping
• secondary
• shaking
• softening
• subsequent
• tiring
• undercutting
• undermining
• unnerving
• unreadiness
• weakening

• verb
  1. To prepare; to make ready for action.

• She was readying herself for the big performance.
• The crew is readying the ship for departure.
• He spent the morning readying the documents.
• They are readying the house for the guests.
• The team is readying their final report.

qualifying

editing

naturalizing

tailoring

education

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