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  • 71everybody — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. everyone, one and all (see whole, generality).Ant., no one. II (Roget s IV) pron. Syn. everyone, every person, each one, every one, each and every one, all, one and all, all and sundry, the public,… …

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  • 72mass — n 1. pile, heap, stack, accumulation, bulk, drift, cumulus; hoard, store, stock, stockpile, supply; lump, deposit, swell, mound, tumulus; bank, hillock, hummock, hill, mountain; bale, bundle, cock, shock, rick, mow; load, barrow, cartload,… …

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  • 73middle class — n 1. bourgeoisie, bourgeoise, petite bourgeoisie; middle orders, shopkeepers, small tradesmen. 2. the common people, the masses, the hoi polloi, Jocular. the booboisie; Middle America, the silent majority, the grass roots; commonalty, the public …

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  • 74petite bourgeoisie — n 1. lower middle class; middle class, bourgeoisie, bourgeois; middle orders, shopkeepers, small tradesmen. 2. the common people, the masses, the hoi polloi, Jocular. the booboisie; Middle America, the silent majority, the grass roots; commonalty …

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  • 75people — 1. plural noun 1) crowds of people Syn: human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mortals, living souls, personages, {men, women, and children}; informal folk 2) the British people Syn: citizens …

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  • 76herd — I n 1. flock, drove, pack, bunch, cluster. 2.Disparaging. throng, crowd, multitude, host, horde, crush, press, mass. 3. the herd the hoi polloi, the masses, the many, the commonality, the great unwashed; rabble, ruck, rout, riffraff. v 4. flock,… …

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  • 77rabble — n 1. crowd, mob, throng; horde; Inf. mob scene, rout, surge. 2. the rabble the common people, commonalty, the masses, the hoi polloi, proletariat, rank and file, commoners, the lower classes, peasantry; trash, riffraff, canaille, doggery, Inf.… …

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  • 78riffraff — n 1. the hoi polloi, the rabble, the masses, proletariat, rank and file, commoners, the lower classes, peasantry, the common people, commonalty; trash, canaille, doggery, Inf. the great unwashed, scum, ragtag and bobtail, flotsam and jetsam,… …

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  • 79great unwashed — n. most of the common people; the hoi polloi. □ The great unwashed could probably tell us a lot about life in the big city. □ I usually find myself more in agreement with the great unwashed than with the elite …

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  • 80Soraismus — In rhetoric, soraismus is the awkward use of different languages often using a foreign term incorrectly or in an inappropriate situation.*Example (from [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/S/soraismus.htm] ): His raison d etre allows… …

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