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101tribe — Synonyms and related words: age group, animal kingdom, band, battalion, bevy, biotype, blood, body, branch, brand, breed, brigade, brood, bunch, cabal, cast, caste, character, clan, class, clique, cohort, color, company, complement, contingent,… …
102Psychiatric Genetics — Since the eighteenth century, psychiatrists have suspected that family genetic history played something of a role in their patients’ illnesses. Articulated first as inheritance, then degeneration and eugenics, then finally after the Second… …
103family — n 1. parents and children, household, ménage; children, Inf. kids, brood, generation; relatives, relations, Inf. folks, people, kin, kinsmen, kinfolk, next of kin, kith and kin; descendants, offspring, offshoots, progeny, issue, seed, posterity,… …
104origin — n 1. source, provenience, provenance; root, taproot, Bot. radicle, Bot. radix, etiology, derivation, etymon; fountainhead, fount, fountain, head, wellspring, well, spring, rise; base, basis, foundation, fundamental, rudiment, ground. 2. beginning …
105root — I n 1.Anat., Zool. radix, Bot. radicle, Bot. rootlet, Bot. taprot, Bot. rhizome, Bot. rootstock; Bot. tuber, Bot. bulb, Bot. bulbil, earthnut, groundnut. 2. base, foundation, basis, seat, foot, footing, sub structure, lower part, bottom, downside …
106strain — I v 1. tighten, draw tight or taut, stretch, extend, elongate, distend. 2. exert to the utmost, sharpen, whet, hone, make keen, sensitize; rack the brain, peel the eye, squint, listen hard, cock the ear, keep one s ears open. 3. sprain, wrench,… …
107succession — n 1. order, sequence, consecution, progression, gradation, step; series, procession, following, consecutiveness, suite; cycle, round, rotation, turn, catenation, concatenation; course, flow, run, chain, train; continuity, continuousness,… …
108origin — [n1] cause, basis agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, causality, causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg*, element, embryo, fountain, generator, germ, horse’s mouth*, impulse, inception, inducement, influence …
109RUTH, BOOK OF — (Heb. מְגִלַּת רוּת), one of the five scrolls incorporated in the Ketuvim (Hagiographa) section of the traditional Hebrew Bible. In the Septuagint, followed by Christian Bibles, Ruth is found immediately after Judges. Contents In the days of the… …
