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  • 61Galton's law of regression — individuals who exhibit an extreme value of some variable, e.g., extreme tallness, produce offspring who on average tend to exhibit less extreme values of that variable, being somewhat closer to the mean value than are their parents …

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  • 62gene — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dominant, recessive ▪ abnormal, defective, mutant ▪ human VERB + GENE ▪ …

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  • 63altitude — Synonyms and related words: Cartesian coordinates, abscissa, apex, azimuth, ceiling, clearance, coordinates, cylindrical coordinates, declination, elevation, eminence, equator coordinates, exaltation, hauteur, height, heighth, highness, latitude …

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  • 64ceiling — Synonyms and related words: CAT, acme, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, all, altitude, altitude peak, apogee, atmospheric visibility, automatic control, blast off, border line, bottom price, bound, boundary, boundary… …

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  • 65elevation — Synonyms and related words: Olympian heights, access, accession, acclivity, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acme, addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights, aggrandizement, altitude, amplification, anabasis, apex, apotheosis,… …

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  • 66eminence — Synonyms and related words: Olympian heights, VIP, acme, aerial heights, altitude, apex, ascendancy, august, authority, bas relief, bellying, big name, big time, big timer, bigwig, boldness, bulging, ceiling, celebrated, charisma, charm, chief,… …

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  • 67exaltation — Synonyms and related words: accolade, adulation, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, altitude, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatification, beatitude, bepraisement, bewitchment, bigheartedness, bigness, blessedness, blessing, bliss,… …

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  • 68grandeur — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian splendor, ampleness, amplitude, augustness, bigness, broadness, bulk, capaciousness, comprehensiveness, consequence, conspicuousness, copiousness, courtliness, dignifiedness, dignity, distinction,… …

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  • 69greatness — Synonyms and related words: accomplishment, ampleness, amplitude, area, ascendancy, authority, bigheartedness, bigness, body, breadth, broadness, brooding, bulk, caliber, capaciousness, chivalrousness, chivalry, comprehensiveness, consequence,… …

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  • 70hauteur — Synonyms and related words: Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, airs, altitude, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, ceiling, clannishness, cliquishness, condescendence, condescension, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely,… …

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