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  • 41life — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fact of existence Nouns 1. life, vitality, existence, being, living, animation, this mortal coil; vital force, flame, or spark, biorhythm; respiration, breath [of life], lifeblood, life force,… …

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  • 42maxim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Saying Nouns 1. maxim, aphorism, gnome, apothegm, dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, catchphrase, word, moral, byword, household word; axiom, theorum, scholium, truism, truth,… …

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  • 43platitude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. commonplace, cliché, truism, banality, maxim. See unmeaningness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A trite expression] Syn. Cliché, truism, proverb, triviality; see cliché , motto , proverb . 2. [Triteness] Syn …

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  • 44weariness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exhaustion Nouns 1. weariness, tiredness, exhaustion, lethargy, lassitude, fatigue; drowsiness, languor, languidness; weakness, faintness. Slang, rack attack, three o clock syndrome. See dejection,… …

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  • 45Weariness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Weariness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 weariness weariness defatigation| Sgm: N 1 lassitude lassitude &c.(fatigue) 688 Sgm: N 1 drowsiness drowsiness &c. 683 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 disgust disgust …

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  • 46irksome — irksome, tiresome, wearisome, tedious, boring mean burdensome because tiring or boring or both. A person or thing is irksome that inspires distaste, reluctance, or impatience because of its demand for effort not made easy by interest {the… …

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  • 47platitude — n 1. cliché, truism, commonplace, saying, phrase; Inf. bromide, Sl. chestnut, banality; Inf. drugstore philosophy, old story, twice told tale, old saw, old song, familiar tune; hackneyed expression, triviality, prosaicism, stereotyped expression …

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  • 48rehearsal — n 1. drill, exercise, practice, Inf. the practice that makes perfect; reading, first reading, read through, dry run; pre performance run through, dress rehearsal, preliminary performance; training, discipline, warm up, preparation, making ready.… …

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  • 49performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 50Die Mulde unter den drei Hügeln — Die Mulde unter den drei Hügeln, englischer Originaltitel The Hollow of the Three Hills, ist eine 1830 erschienene Erzählung des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Nathaniel Hawthorne und gilt als seine erste veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte. Sie… …

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