KEY: Germ.
SYN: Seed, nucleus, embryo, origin, bud.
ANT: Fruit, development, result.
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KEY: Germane.
SYN: Allied, kindred, related, homogeneous, appropriate, akin, pertinent, relative.
ANT: Unconnected, foreign, alien, irrelevant.
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KEY: Germinate.
SYN: Sprout, shoot, bud, vegetate.