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  • 31care — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. i. like, have affection (for). See care, pity, feeling. II Solicitude Nouns 1. (concern) care, concern, consideration, solicitude, anxiety, heed, heedfulness; conscientiousness, watchfulness,… …

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  • 32skill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Expertness Nouns 1. skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertise, proficiency, adequacy, competence, handicraft, finesse, savoir faire, facility, knack; mastery,… …

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  • 33wit — I [[t]wɪt[/t]] n. 1) the keen perception and clever expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure 2) a person having or noted for such perception and expression 3) witty speech or writing 4) understanding,… …

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  • 34pull oneself together — {v. phr.} To become calm after being excited or disturbed; recover self command; control yourself. * /It had been a disturbing moment, but he was able to pull himself together./ …

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  • 35pull oneself together — {v. phr.} To become calm after being excited or disturbed; recover self command; control yourself. * /It had been a disturbing moment, but he was able to pull himself together./ …

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  • 36know what's what — verb be well informed • Syn: ↑know the score, ↑be with it, ↑be on the ball, ↑know what s going on • Hypernyms: ↑know • Verb Frames: Somebody s …

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  • 37know how many beans make five — (informal) To be fully alert, know what s what • • • Main Entry: ↑bean know how many beans make five To be sensible and aware, to have one s wits about one • • • Main Entry: ↑know …

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  • 38know what's o'clock — (obsolete) or know what s what To have one s wits about one, be on the ball • • • Main Entry: ↑know …

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  • 39Wit at Several Weapons — is a seventeenth century comedy of problematic date and authorship. Authorship and DateIn its own century, the play appeared in print only in the two Beaumont and Fletcher folios of 1647 and 1679; yet modern scholarship has determined that the… …

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  • 40Characters in the Deltora Quest series — The Deltora series features a wide line of characters, both important and minor. The series also features many different monsters and creatures that appeared in all of the many different books. This article is a list of the many different… …

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