| verb | keep company with; hang out with “He associates with strange people” |
| verb | arrange or order by classes or categories “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?” |
| adjective | consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; ; ; ; ; ; - I.A.Richards “an arrangement of assorted spring flowers” |
| adjective | of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity “assorted sizes” |
| consort | noun | the husband or wife of a reigning monarch |
| association | noun | a formal organization of people or groups of people |
| associate | noun | a friend who is frequently in the company of another |
| classificatory | adjective | relating to or involving classification: |
| class | noun | a league ranked by quality |
| classification | noun | a group of people or things arranged by class or category |
| classifier | noun | a person who creates classifications |
| sort | noun | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality |
| sorter | noun | a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) |
| sorting | noun | an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion |
| assortment | noun | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
| motley | noun | a collection containing a variety of sorts of things |