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  • 102refuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trash, truck, rubbish, waste, leavings, garbage. See uselessness. v. See refusal. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. rubbish, litter, waste, leavings; see trash 1 , 3 . v. Syn. decline, reject, repudiate, deny,… …

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  • 103de|cline — «dih KLYN», verb, clined, clin|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to turn away from doing; refuse (to do something): »The boy declined to do what he was told. SYNONYM(S): reject. See syn. under refuse. (Cf. ↑refuse) …

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  • 104Al Capone — Infobox Criminal subject name = Al Capone image size = 250px image caption = date of birth = birth date |1899|1|17| place of birth = Brooklyn, New York date of death = death date and age|1947|1|25|1899|1|17|mf=y place of death = Palm Island,… …

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  • 105John Singleton Copley — For the British lawyer and politician of this name, see John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst. John Singleton Copley Portrait of Copley by Gilbert Stuart Birth name John Singleton Copley …

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  • 106Neil Harvey — For the footballer, see Neil Harvey (footballer). Neil Harvey Personal information Full name Robert Neil Harvey Born 8 October 1928 (1928 10 08) …

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  • 107bowling — /boh ling/, n. 1. any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, esp. a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at… …

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  • 108computer — computerlike, adj. /keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. 1. Also called processor. an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Cf. analog… …

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  • 109Yemen — /yem euhn, yay meuhn/, n. 1. Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen. 13,972,477; 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Cap.: (political) San a. Cap.:… …

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