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121arrogate — I verb accroach, adopt, annex, appropriate, ascribe falsely, assume, assume command, attach, collect, commandeer, convert, demand, deprive, expropriate, harass, hijack, impress, infringe, invade, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, seize, sequester,… …
122immerse — I (engross) verb absorb, attend, be attentive, bury, engage, enthrall, fascinate, grip, hold, hold spellbound, interest, involve, monopolize, occupy, overwhelm, preoccupy, submerge, take up II (plunge into) verb bathe, cover with water, deluge,… …
123obsess — I verb agitate, annoy, bedevil, beset, besiege, bewitch, compel, control, craze, dement, derange, discompose, disconcert, distress, dominate, drive, enthrall, gnaw, haunt, hold captive, hound, infatuate, madden, nag, overpower, pervade, plague,… …
124Augustine — Gerard O’Daly 1 LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS Augustine was born in Thagaste (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria) in Roman North Africa in AD 354. He died as bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) in 430. His education followed the standard Roman… …
125Dilthey, Wilhelm — Dilthey Michael Lessnoff INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Dilthey was born in 1833 near Wiesbaden, and thus lived through the period of Bismarck’s creation of a unified German Empire by ‘blood and iron’. These turbulent events, however, scarcely perturbed… …
126obsess — ob·sess əb ses, äb vt to preoccupy intensely or abnormally <was obsessed with success> vi to engage in obsessive thinking <solve problems rather than obsess about them (Carol Tavris)> …
127Fear and Desire — (Alternate titles: Shape of Fear,The Trap) Joseph Burstyn, Inc. , 68 minutes, 1953. Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Martin Perveler; Director: Kubrick; Screenplay: Kubrick and Howard Sackler; Cinematography: Stanley Kubrick; Art Director: Herbert… …
128absorb — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb the attention, adsorb, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrest, assimilate, be with one, bleed white, blot, blot up, burn up, buy up, catch, catch on, catch up in, charm, chemisorb, chemosorb, come… …
