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  • 1Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …

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  • 2habit — n 1 Habit, habitude, practice, usage, custom, use, wont are comparable when they mean a way of behaving, doing, or proceeding that has become fixed by constant repetition. These words may be used also as collective or abstract nouns denoting… …

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  • 3habit — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ annoying, antisocial (BrE), bad, dangerous, destructive, dirty, disconcerting (BrE), disgusting, filthy, horrible …

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  • 4give — v. & n. v. (past gave; past part. given) 1 tr. (also absol.; often foll. by to) transfer the possession of freely; hand over as a present (gave them her old curtains; gives to cancer research). 2 tr. a transfer the ownership of with or without… …

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  • 5break a habit — phrase to stop doing something that is a habit, especially something bad or harmful Interrupting others is annoying, so try to break the habit. Thesaurus: to give up doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or animalsynonym Main entry: break …

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  • 6Two Bad Neighbors — Infobox Simpsons episode episode name = Two Bad Neighbors image caption = Homer fights with George H. W. Bush episode no = 141 prod code = 3F09 airdate = January 14, 1996 show runner = Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein writer = Ken Keeler director =… …

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  • 7Something's Gotta Give (film) — Infobox Film name = Something s Gotta Give caption = Theatrical release poster director = Nancy Meyers producer = Nancy Meyers writer = Nancy Meyers starring = Jack Nicholson Diane Keaton Keanu Reeves Amanda Peet music = Hans Zimmer… …

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  • 8Sweet Valley High TV show (Season Three) — Sweet Valley High, Season Three debuted in syndication on August 26, 1996 and ended on February 10, 1997. There were 22 episodes.EpisodesMuch Ado About Nachos * The gang holidays in MexicoShred Reckoning * Bruce joins the army and his cousin… …

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  • 9break — break1 W1S1 [breık] v past tense broke [brəuk US brouk] past participle broken [ˈbrəukən US ˈbrou ] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(separate into pieces)¦ 2¦(bones)¦ 3¦(machines)¦ 4¦(rules/laws)¦ 5¦(promise/agreement)¦ 6¦(stop/rest)¦ 7¦(end something)¦ …

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  • 10List of My Little Pony characters — This is a list of characters from the long running My Little Pony toy franchise. The My Little Pony franchise first debuted in the year 1400 B.C., the creation of American illustrator and designer Bonnie Zacherle. Together with sculptor Charles… …

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