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  • 81Death Cab for Cutie — This article is about the band. For the 1967 song, see Death Cab for Cutie (song). Death Cab for Cutie Death Cab for Cutie performing Transatlanticism on their Codes and Keys European tour, at Manchester Academy on July 4, 2011. Left to right: H …

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  • 82servitude — /serr vi toohd , tyoohd /, n. 1. slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude. 2. compulsory service or labor as a punishment for criminals: penal servitude. 3. Law. a right possessed by one person to use another s property …

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  • 83set — /set/, v., set, setting, n., adj., interj. v.t. 1. to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table. 2. to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet. 3. to place in some relation to something …

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  • 84wake — [[t]we͟ɪk[/t]] ♦♦♦ wakes, waking, woke, woken (The form waked is used in American English for the past tense.) 1) V ERG When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep. It was cold and dark when …

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  • 85stem from — HAVE ITS ORIGINS IN, arise from, originate from, spring from, derive from, come from, emanate from, flow from, proceed from; BE CAUSED BY, be brought on/about by, be produced by. → stem * * * ˈstem from [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they… …

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  • 86strolling — adjective (only before noun) a strolling entertainer travels around the country giving informal performances on the way strong adjective 1 PHYSICAL STRENGTH having a lot of physical power so that, for example, you can lift heavy things: He was a… …

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  • 87Jarilo — (Cyrillic: Ярило or Јарило; Polish: Jaryło; Croatian: Jura or Juraj; Serbian: Đorđe; Slavic: Jarovit), alternatively Yarilo, Iarilo, or Gerovit, was a major male Proto Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and spring, also associated with war and …

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  • 88Jonas Brothers — This article is about the band. For the band s self titled album, see Jonas Brothers (album). Jonas Brothers …

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  • 89gravitation — gravitational, adj. gravitationally, adv. /grav i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the force of attraction between any two masses. Cf. law of gravitation. b. an act or process caused by this force. 2. a sinking or falling …

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  • 90lure# — lure n Lure, bait, decoy, snare, trap all denote something that leads an animal or a person into a particular place or situation from which escape is difficult. Lure suggests something that always attracts and often deceives {threw out all the… …

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