Calling and Need

Calling

Calling noun - The act of putting an end to something planned or previously agreed to.

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Need and calling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Calling".

Nearby Words: call, called, caller, callback, callable

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Calling and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Calling" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

good	good calling	good need
high	high calling	high need
special	special calling	special need
long	long calling	long need
Other adjectives: natural, current, original, many, true, actual, real, constant, little, personal, new, religious, greater.

This distracted the Flash's children enough so that Arsenal could look after them all, and Flash, after calling him a friend in need, could join his wife.

Source: A Friend in Need
Cross's calling out of his need to reload, and hence inability to attack, shows to the player when to start counterattacking.

Source: Calling Your Attacks
Abandoning her in her moment of need (calling it a day instead of going into town with her after Lilly leaves for Scotland) is what gets you the Bad Ending.

Source: Visual Novel / Katawa Shoujo

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