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  • 1anxiety — anx|i|e|ty W3S3 [æŋˈzaıəti] n plural anxieties [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: anxietas, from anxius; ANXIOUS] 1.) [U and C] the feeling of being very worried about something = ↑concern anxiety about/over ▪ There is considerable anxiety …

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  • 2Anxiety —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …

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  • 3Anxiety and Phobias —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …

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  • 4Great Books of the Western World — is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. The list of… …

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  • 5anxiety — n. 1) to feel anxiety 2) to relieve one s anxiety 3) deep, grave, great, high anxiety 4) anxiety about; for (anxiety for smb. s safety) 5) anxiety to + inf. (in his anxiety not to offend them, he agreed to concessions) 6) in anxiety (see 5) * * * …

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  • 6anxiety — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, considerable, deep, great ▪ chronic, constant, nagging ▪ free floating (esp. AmE) …

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  • 7Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead — [ Handcoloured woodblock engraving from the Illustrated London News, 14th October 1854] The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of… …

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  • 8great — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 large in amount, degree, size, etc. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ADVERB ▪ very ▪ The play was a very great success …

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  • 9anxiety — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, abulia, ache, ado, alacrity, alienation, all overs, angst, anguish, animation, annoyance, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, anxiousness, apathy, appetite, apprehension, apprehensiveness, avidity, avidness …

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  • 10Great Coalition —    a parliamentary majority comprised of the SPD, the Center Party*, the DDP, and the DVP. The first effort to form such a union was made in June 1920 by DVP faction leader Rudolf Heinze*; the SPD refused to join, due to the ambivalence of some… …

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