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  • 101dryness — Synonyms and related words: acerbity, acescency, acidity, acidulousness, appetite, aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, cacophony, canine appetite, characterlessness, coarseness, colorlessness, contraception, cracked voice …

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  • 102infertility — Synonyms and related words: aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, contraception, dearth, dearth of ideas, dry womb, dryness, dullness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, planned parenthood, prosaicism,… …

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  • 103absence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of being away Nouns 1. (not being here) absence, nonresidence, noninhabitance, non presence, nonattendance, absenteeism, truancy, hooky, family leave; French leave; nonexistence. 2. (lack of… …

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  • 104excess — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. immoderation, intemperance, dissipation, indulgence; superabundance, superfluity, extravagance, exorbitance; redundance, remainder.See sufficiency. Ant., moderation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [More than… …

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  • 105glut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. stuff, cram, choke, pack, jam. n. surplus, surfeit, plethora, saturation, satiety, redundance. See sufficiency. Ant., dearth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. oversupply, overabundance, excess; see excess 1 .… …

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  • 106need — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. necessity, requirement; desire, want, privation, lack, poverty; use. v. t. require, crave, claim, demand, yearn; lack, want. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Poverty] Syn. indigence, penury, pennilessness; see… …

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  • 107surfeit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. excess, glut, superfluity, superabundance, plethora; satiety, repletion, engorgement. See sufficiency. Ant., lack, dearth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. surplus, superfluity, profusion; see excess 1 ,… …

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  • 108Dullness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dullness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dullness dullness heaviness flatness Sgm: N 1 infestivity infestivity &c. 837 stupidity &c. 499 Sgm: N 1 want of originality want of originality Sgm: N 1 dearth of ideas …

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  • 109dear — [OE] Dear is one of the English language’s more semantically stable words. By the 11th century it had already developed its two major present day senses, ‘much loved’ and ‘expensive’, which are shared by its Germanic relative, German teuer (Dutch …

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  • 110dear — [OE] Dear is one of the English language’s more semantically stable words. By the 11th century it had already developed its two major present day senses, ‘much loved’ and ‘expensive’, which are shared by its Germanic relative, German teuer (Dutch …

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