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31Humility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Humility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 humility humility humbleness Sgm: N 1 meekness meekness lowness Sgm: N 1 lowliness lowliness lowlihood Sgm: N 1 abasement abasement self abasement …
32humility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of pride Nouns 1. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowliness, lowness; [self ] abasement; submission, resignation; modesty, blush, suffusion, confusion. 2. humiliation, degradation, mortification;… …
33modesty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Timidity Nouns modesty; humility; diffidence, timidity, bashfulness; shyness, unobtrusiveness; shame; reserve, constraint; demureness. Verbs 1. be modest, retire, give way to, retire into one s shell,… …
34recant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. withdraw, take back, renounce, retract, disavow, repudiate. See penitence, nullification II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. retract, revoke, renounce, disavow, disclaim, abjure, deny, take back, cancel, back… …
35give — v 1. bestow, present, donate, contribute; turn over, hand over; confer, award; accord, grant, vouchsafe; leave, entrust. 2. allot, apportion, assign, allocate; mete out, distribute, dispense, dole, Inf. fork out, hand out, supply; Inf. shell out …
36regression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Passage back Nouns 1. regression, retrogression, retrogradation, retroaction, retreat, return, reversion; relapse, recession, recess; recidivism, backsliding, fall, deterioration. See failure. 2. reflux …
37knock under — (Colloq.) Submit, yield, knuckle, give up, lower one s flag, kiss the rod, lick the dust, eat humble pie, draw in one s horns …
38submit — I. v. a. 1. Yield, surrender, resign, subject, give up. 2. Refer, commit. II. v. n. 1. Yield, surrender, succumb. 2. Yield, surrender, succumb, give up, knock under, lower one s flag, kiss the rod, lick the dust, eat humble pie, draw in one s… …
39cut back — if profits don t soon improve, we ll have to find ways to cut back they cut back on medical benefits Syn: economize, downsize, pull/draw in one s horns, tighten one s belt, slim down, scale down; (cut back on) cut, cut down, decrease, lessen,… …
40truckle — v 1. kowtow, bow, bow before, bow to, bow and scrape, bend, bend before, stoop, crouch; kneel, kneel before, fall on one s knees before, prostrate oneself before; grovel, crawl, creep, creep before, slither; cringe, cower, squirm; whine, whimper …
