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101Pain — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pain >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 mental suffering mental suffering pain dolor Sgm: N 1 suffering suffering sufferance Sgm: N 1 ache ache smart &c.(physical pain) 378 Sgm: N 1 passion …
102asphyxia — 1706, stoppage of pulse, from Modern Latin, from Gk. asphyxia stopping of the pulse, from a not + sphyzein to throb. The current sense of suffocation is from 1778, but it is a curious infelicity of etymology [OED] since victims of suffocation… …
103misadventure — n. Mischance, mishap, misfortune, reverse, ill luck, disaster, calamity, infelicity, cross …
104mischance — n. Misfortune, mishap, ill luck, misadventure, calamity, ill fortune, infelicity, disaster …
105unhappiness — n. 1. Wretchedness, misery, distress, affliction, woe, infelicity. 2. Misfortune, calamity, disaster …
106blunder — 1. noun he shook his head at his blunder Syn: mistake, error, gaffe, slip, oversight, faux pas, misstep, infelicity; informal botch, slip up, boo boo, blooper, boner, flub See note at mistake 2. verb 1) …
107malapropism — noun she s famous for her hilarious malapropisms Syn: wrong word, solecism, misuse, misapplication, infelicity, slip of the tongue, Freudian slip, blunder …
108solecism — noun 1) a poem marred by solecisms Syn: (grammatical) mistake, error, blunder; informal howler, blooper 2) it would have been a solecism to answer Syn: faux pas, gaffe, impropriety, social indiscretion, infelicity, slip …
109adversity — n 1. misfortune, affliction, hurt, harm, ruin, ruination; misery, woe, hardship, suffering, distress, bereavement, Archaic. bale, storm and stress, sea of troubles; infelicity, ill or bad luck, hard luck, ill or bad fortune, ambsace, evil eye,… …
110affliction — n 1. adversity, hurt, harm, ruin, ruination, desolation; misery, wretchedness, agony, torture, torment, distress, suffering, Archaic. bale; woe, grief, dolor, sorrow, sadness, anguish, anxiety, unhappiness, heartache, heartbreak, heavy heart;… …
