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  • 101pity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of compassion for another Nouns pity, compassion, commiseration, sympathy; lamentation, condolence; empathy, fellow feeling, tenderness, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency, charity, ruth,… …

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  • 102affliction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care,… …

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  • 103fortune — 01. My neighbor made a [fortune] by investing in Microsoft when the company was fairly new. 02. It ll cost you a [fortune] if you stay in hotels instead of youth hostels. 03. This weather is great, but I don t know how long our good [fortune] is… …

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  • 104magic, witchcraft, and sorcery — The art of performing charms, spells, and rituals, to seek to control events or govern certain natural or supernatural forces. Magic can be good, as in love magic or the canoe magic of the Trobriand Islanders before a hazardous voyage. It can… …

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  • 105curse — [[t]kɜrs[/t]] n. v. cursed, curs•ing 1) the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall someone 2) a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another 3) the act of reciting such a formula 4) a profane or obscene… …

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  • 106συνδυστυχεῖ — συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune pres ind mp 2nd sg (attic epic doric ionic) συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune pres ind act 3rd sg (attic epic doric ionic) συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune pres ind mp 2nd sg (attic epic doric ionic) συνδυστυχέω share …

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  • 107συνδυστυχοῦμεν — συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune pres ind act 1st pl (attic epic doric) συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune pres ind act 1st pl (attic epic doric) συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune imperf ind act 1st pl (attic epic doric) συνδυστυχέω share in misfortune …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 108ad|ver|si|ty — «ad VUR suh tee», noun, plural ties. 1. a condition of unhappiness, misfortune, or distress; being in unfavorable circumstances, especially unfavorable financial circumstances: »He that never was acquainted with adversity has seen the world but… …

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  • 109BALAAM — (Heb. בַּלְעָם, בִּלְעָם), son of Beor, a non Israelite diviner famous for his effectiveness, enlisted by Balak, king of Moab, to pronounce curses over the Israelites. The pronunciation Balaam reflects the Greek rendering of the name in the… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 110Deutschlandlied — Das Lied der Deutschen English: The Song of the Germans Facsimile of Hoffmann von Fallersleben s manuscript of Das Lied der Deutschen. National anthem of …

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