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  • 51Unimportance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unimportance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unimportance unimportance insignificance nothingness immateriality GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 triviality triviality levity frivolity Sgm: N 2 paltriness paltriness …

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  • 52Imperfection — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Imperfection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 imperfection imperfection Sgm: N 1 imperfectness imperfectness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 deficiency deficiency Sgm: N 1 inadequacy inadequacy &c.(insufficiency) 640 Sgm: N 1 peccancy …

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  • 53Commonalty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Commonalty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 commonalty commonalty democracy Sgm: N 1 obscurity obscurity Sgm: N 1 low condition low condition low life low society low company Sgm: N 1 bourgeoisie bourgeoisie …

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  • 54mediocrity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Average capacity or worth Nouns 1. mediocrity, middle course, moderate degree, medial standard, moderate or average circumstances; normality, average, golden mean; moderation, temperance, respectability; …

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  • 55shake — verb (past shook; past participle shaken) 1》 tremble or vibrate or cause to do so.     ↘tremble uncontrollably with strong emotion. 2》 move forcefully or quickly up and down or to and fro.     ↘remove from something by shaking.     ↘brandish in… …

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  • 56shake — I. verb (shook; shaken; shaking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceacan; akin to Old Norse skaka to shake Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to move irregularly to and fro 2. to vibrate especially as the result of a blow… …

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  • 57Handshake — For the telecommunications concept, see Handshaking. Two men shaking hands A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other s like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up and down movement of the grasped hands …

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  • 58little — Synonyms and related words: Lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace, arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, back burner, bantam, barely, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, bit, borne, bowshot, brief, brief span, by a… …

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  • 59shake — {{11}}shake (n.) late 14c., from SHAKE (Cf. shake) (v.). As a type of instantaneous action, it is recorded from 1816. Phrase fair shake honest deal is attested from 1830, Amer.Eng. The shakes nervous agitation is from 1620s. Shakeout business… …

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  • 60shake — [[t]ʃeɪk[/t]] v. shook, shak•en, shak•ing, n. 1) to move with short, quick, vibratory movements 2) pat to tremble with emotion, cold, etc 3) to become dislodged and fall (often fol. by off) 4) to move something, esp. in a bottle or container,… …

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