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  • 51deport — de·port /di pōrt/ vt: to send (an alien) out of a country by order of deportation compare exclude de·port·able adj Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 52restraint — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of holding back Nouns 1. restraint, inhibition, repression, discipline, control, check, curb, rein; limitation, restriction; prohibition; monopoly. See circumscription, limit, subjection, retention,… …

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  • 53chin up — act of suspending oneself from a bar and raising oneself with one s arms until one s chin is above the bar …

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  • 54pull up — stop; overtake (in a race); improve the situation; rebuke, reprimand; roadside restaurant; chin up, act of suspending oneself from a bar and raising oneself with one s arms until one s chin is above the bar …

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  • 55dive — 1. verb 1) they dived into the clear water the plane was diving toward the ground Syn: plunge, nosedive, jump head first, bellyflop; plummet, fall, drop, pitch, dive bomb 2) the islanders dive for oysters Syn …

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  • 56land — n 1. earth, ground, terra firma, terra, dry land, solid ground; shore, seashore, coast, seacoast, 638coastland, beach, waterside, foreshore; continent, subcontinent, mainland, main, island, islet, isthmus, neck, peninsula, cape, foreland; reef,… …

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  • 57roost — n 1. perch, rest, seat, throne; feeder, pole, rod, bar, tree, branch, twig; nest, aerie, eyrie, rookery, nidus, birdhouse, henhouse, chicken coop, (of bees) hive; abode, home, habitat, habitation, domicile, quarters, house. v 2. perch, sit on,… …

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  • 58chin — [chin] n. [ME < OE cin < IE base * ĝenu , chin, jawbone > Goth kinnus, cheek, L gena, cheek, Gr genys, chin] the part of the face below the lower lip; projecting part of the lower jaw vt. chinned, chinning Gym. to pull (oneself) up,… …

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  • 59MIKVEH — (Heb. מִקְוֶה; pl. mikva ot; Hebrew for a collection or gathering (of water), a pool or bath of clear water, immersion in which renders ritually clean a person who has become ritually unclean through contact with the dead (Num. 19) or any other… …

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  • 60PRAYER — PRAYER, the offering of petition, confession, adoration or thanksgiving to God. In the Bible The concept of prayer is based on the conviction that God exists, hears, and answers (Ps. 65:3; cf. 115:3–7) – that He is a personal deity. In a sense it …

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