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  • 1painfully — pain|ful|ly [ˈpeınfəli] adv 1.) very used to emphasize a bad or harmful quality that someone or something has ▪ painfully thin arms ▪ As a teenager, I was painfully shy. ▪ The road to peace is a painfully slow process. ▪ We are only too painfully …

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  • 2painfully — adverb 1 with pain or causing pain: The prince walked slowly and painfully. | The ball hit him painfully on the shin. 2 painfully obvious/clear/evident easy to see and disappointing or embarrassing: It was becoming painfully obvious that I would… …

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  • 3obvious — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, look, seem, sound ▪ become ▪ It soon became obvious that the machine did not work. ▪ …

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  • 4painfully — adverb 1. unpleasantly (Freq. 6) his ignorance was painfully obvious • Syn: ↑distressingly • Derived from adjective: ↑distressing (for: ↑distressingly), ↑ …

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  • 5obvious */*/*/ — UK [ˈɒbvɪəs] / US [ˈɑbvɪəs] adjective 1) clear to almost anyone The most obvious explanation is not always the correct one. I d have thought that was fairly obvious, James retorted. a glaringly obvious mistake for obvious reasons: For obvious… …

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  • 6painfully — adv. Painfully is used with these adjectives: ↑apparent, ↑aware, ↑awkward, ↑beautiful, ↑clear, ↑conscious, ↑evident, ↑exposed, ↑familiar, ↑funny, ↑honest, ↑ …

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  • 7SMOLENSKIN, PEREZ — (1840 or 1842–1885), Hebrew novelist, editor, and publicist. A leading exponent of the haskalah in Eastern Europe and an early advocate of Jewish nationalism, Smolenskin is best known for the important Hebrew monthly Ha Shaḥar which he founded in …

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  • 8distressingly — adverb unpleasantly his ignorance was painfully obvious • Syn: ↑painfully • Derived from adjective: ↑distressing, ↑painful (for: ↑painfully) …

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  • 10Battle of Dien Bien Phu — Battle of Điện Biên Phủ Part of the First Indochina War …

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