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  • 41job — noun 1 employment ADJECTIVE ▪ decent, good, great, worthwhile ▪ interesting ▪ high powered, top ▪ …

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  • 42role — noun 1 in a play, film/movie, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ lead, leading, starring, title ▪ He has the starring role in the movie. ▪ She sings the title role in Tosca. ▪ …

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  • 43task — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ awesome, challenging, daunting, enormous, formidable, great, Herculean, huge, mammoth (esp. BrE), massive …

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  • 44ingratitude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of appreciation Nouns 1. ingratitude, ungratefulness, unthankfulness. 2. ingrate, wretch, a serpent in one s bosom. Verbs be ungrateful, lack appreciation, look a gift horse in the mouth; bite the… …

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  • 45thankful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. grateful, appreciative; much obliged. See gratitude. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. obliged, grateful, gratified, contented, satisfied, indebted to, beholden, pleased, kindly disposed, appreciative,… …

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  • 46unthankful — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. ungrateful, unappreciative. ANT.: obliged, grateful II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not showing or feeling gratitude: thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful, unthanking. See GRATEFUL. 2. Not apt to be… …

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  • 47task — task1 W1S2 [ta:sk US tæsk] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old North French; Origin: tasque, from Medieval Latin tasca tax or service to be done for a ruler , from taxare to tax ] 1.) a piece of work that must be done, especially one that is difficult or… …

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  • 48ungrateful — a. 1. Unthankful, thankless, without gratitude. 2. Unpleasing, offensive, disagreeable, unacceptable, unwelcome, thankless …

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  • 49task — noun (C) 1 a piece of work that must be done, especially one that is difficult or unpleasant or that must be done regularly (+ of): He was given the task of stacking the chairs in the auditorium. | the grim task of identifying the dead | daily… …

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  • 50ungratifying — adjective not likely to be rewarded grading papers is a thankless task • Syn: ↑thankless, ↑unappreciated • Similar to: ↑unrewarding …

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