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  • 111imperfection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of perfection Nouns 1. imperfection, imperfectness, incompleteness, faultiness; deficiency; inadequacy, insufficiency, peccancy (see badness); immaturity; mediocrity, shortcoming, inferiority;… …

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  • 112relationship — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. relation, connection, tie, association, consanguinity, affinity, likeness, link, kinship, blood tie, bond, Dependence, interdependence, relativity, proportion, rapport, contact, appositeness, analogy, similarity,… …

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  • 113familiar — 1 Familiar, intimate, close, confidential, chummy, thick are comparable when meaning near to one another because of constant or frequent association, shared interests and activities, or common sympathies, or, when applied to words or acts,… …

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  • 114pale — adj 1 Pale, pallid, ashen, ashy, wan, livid mean devoid of natural or healthy color as applied to a complexion or deficient in vividness or intensity of hue as applied to a specific color. Pale is the least rich of these words in implications and …

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  • 115proximity — n 1. proximateness, nearness, closeness, nighness, propinquity; approximation, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood; contiguity, contiguousness, conterminousness, adjacence, adjacency, juxtaposition, apposition. 2. kinship, relationship, relation,… …

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  • 116proximity — n. nearness in space, time, etc. (sat in close proximity to them). Phrases and idioms: proximity fuse an electronic device causing a projectile to explode when near its target. proximity of blood kinship. Etymology: ME f. F proximiteacute or L… …

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  • 117prox|im|i|ty — «prok SIHM uh tee», noun. nearness; closeness: »She and her cat enjoy their proximity to the fire. Marriages in proximity of blood are amongst us forbidden (John Florio). ╂[< Latin proximitās < proximus nearest] …

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  • 118HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …

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  • 119UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …

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