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  • 11fraught — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, freight, load, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish load, cargo II. transitive verb (fraughted or fraught; fraughting) Etymology: Middle English …

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  • 12fraught — adj. 1 (foll. by with) filled or attended with (fraught with danger). 2 colloq. causing or affected by great anxiety or distress. Etymology: ME, past part. of obs. fraught (v.) load with cargo f. MDu. vrachten f. vracht FREIGHT …

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  • 13fraught — adjective 1) their world is fraught with danger Syn: full of, filled with, rife with; attended by, accompanied by 2) she sounded a bit fraught Syn: anxious, worried, stressed, upset, distraught, ove …

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  • 14fraught — [fro:t US fro:t] adj [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Past participle of fraught to load, fill (14 19 centuries), from Middle Dutch vracht load ] 1.) fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc full of problems etc ▪ Their marriage has been fraught… …

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  • 15fraught — adjective 1 an activity or situation that is fraught is full of problems and is very difficult to deal with: After the argument, relations between them were fraught. | fraught with problems/difficulties/danger: Any program of sudden change is… …

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  • 16performing 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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  • 17United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 18dangerous — dan·ger·ous adj 1: creating a risk of bodily injury a dangerous condition of a public building 2: able or likely to inflict esp. serious bodily injury a dangerous criminal with no regard for human life a dangerous animal; also: deadly …

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  • 19Meyer, Stephenie — ▪ 2008 Stephenie Morgan  born Dec. 24, 1973, Hartford, Conn.  Up and coming American author Stephenie Meyer breathed new life into young adult fiction post Harry Potter with the August 2007 release of Eclipse, the third book in her Twilight Saga …

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  • 20Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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