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  • 31impose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. burden (with), inflict; force (upon); levy, tax; delude, take advantage (of), palm off, foist; obtrude. See deception, compulsion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. force upon, inflict, foist, exact; see… …

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  • 33inflict — I verb administer a penalty, administer punishment, agitate, agonize, apply, beset, bring about, bring upon, burden, cause, cause to suffer, coerce, commit, deal, disquiet, distress, enforce, force, force upon, give pain, harass, harm, hurt,… …

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  • 34command — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Order of authority Nouns 1. command, commandment, order, ordinance, fiat, bidding, dictum, behest, call, beck, nod; direction, injunction, charge; instructions. Informal, say so. See authority, rule. 2.… …

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  • 35enlarge — [[t]ɪnlɑ͟ː(r)ʤ[/t]] enlarges, enlarging, enlarged 1) V ERG When you enlarge something or when it enlarges, it becomes bigger. [V n] ...the plan to enlarge Ewood Park into a 30,000 all seater stadium... The glands in the neck may enlarge. Derived… …

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  • 36peise — I. ˈpāz, ˈpēz noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English peis, from Old North French, from Latin pensum more at poise 1. dialect Britain : weight 2 …

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  • 37foist — I verb apply pressure, beguile, coerce, compel, compel to accept, constrain, deceive, fob off on, force, force upon, gull, impose, impose by fraud, inflict, insert surreptitiously, palm off, palm off fraudulently, pass off as genuine, put in… …

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  • 38subject — noun sʌbdʒɪkt, dʒɛkt 1》 a person or thing that is being discussed or dealt with or that gives rise to something.     ↘Logic the part of a proposition about which a statement is made.     ↘a person who is the focus of scientific or medical… …

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  • 39pressure — /ˈprɛʃə / (say preshuh) noun 1. the exertion of force upon a body by another body in contact with it; compression. 2. Physics the force per unit area exerted on a given surface. The SI unit of pressure is the pascal. One pascal is equal to one… …

  • 40coerce — co·erce /kō ərs/ vt co·erced, co·erc·ing: to subject (a person) to coercion compare importune, solicit Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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