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111doubt — [n] lack of faith, conviction; questioning agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy,… …
112mistrust — [n] doubtfulness apprehension, chariness, concern, distrust, doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, fear, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wariness, wonder; concepts 21,27,690 Ant. belief,… …
113gram — (g) a unit of mass in the metric system. The name comes from the Greek gramma, a small weight identified in later Roman and Byzantine times with the Latin scripulum or scruple (the English scruple is equal to about 1.3 grams). The gram was… …
114SC — abbr. 1 US South Carolina (also in official postal use). 2 special constable. * * * noun 1. a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies • Syn: ↑South Carolina, ↑Palmetto State • Members of this Region: ↑Cowpens, ↑battle of Cowpens …
115Sc — abbr. 1 US South Carolina (also in official postal use). 2 special constable. * * * noun a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite • Syn: ↑scandium, ↑atomic… …
116sc. — abbr. scilicet. * * * 1. scale. 2. scene. 3. science. 4. scientific. 5. namely. [ < L scilicet, contr. of scire licet it is permitted to know] 6. screw. 7. scruple. 8. sculpsit. * * * abbrev 1. Scilicet ( …
117scru´pu|lous|ness — scru|pu|lous «SKROO pyuh luhs», adjective. 1. very careful to do what is right: »a scrupulous man, scrupulous honesty. SYNONYM(S): conscientious. 2. attending thoroughly to details; very careful: »A soldier must pay scrupulous attention to orders …
118scru´pu|lous|ly — scru|pu|lous «SKROO pyuh luhs», adjective. 1. very careful to do what is right: »a scrupulous man, scrupulous honesty. SYNONYM(S): conscientious. 2. attending thoroughly to details; very careful: »A soldier must pay scrupulous attention to orders …
119scru|pu|lous — «SKROO pyuh luhs», adjective. 1. very careful to do what is right: »a scrupulous man, scrupulous honesty. SYNONYM(S): conscientious. 2. attending thoroughly to details; very careful: »A soldier must pay scrupulous attention to orders. ╂[<… …
120A bone of contention — Bone Bone (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely …
