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  • 111Paris arts faculty (The): Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito — The Paris arts faculty: Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito Sten Ebbesen Throughout the thirteenth century Paris overshadowed all other universities in the arts as in theology. This chapter will deal almost exclusively with Paris …

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  • 112annoying — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, aggravative, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, contentious, crushing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, exasperative, fretting, galling,… …

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  • 113average — Synonyms and related words: Everyman, Public, accustomed, amidships, as a rule, average man, average out, avoid extremes, balance, banal, besetting, bisect, bourgeois, center, central, common, common man, common run, commonplace, conventional,… …

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  • 114backbreaking — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard earned, hard fought, heavy, hefty, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive,… …

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  • 115bad habit — Synonyms and related words: automatism, besetting sin, characteristic, creature of habit, custom, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foible, force of habit, frailty, habit, habit pattern, habitude, imperfection, infirmity, moral flaw, pattern,… …

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  • 116bothersome — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty,… …

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  • 117burdensome — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, distressing, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling,… …

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  • 118common — Synonyms and related words: Astroturf, Attic, Babbittish, Mickey Mouse, Philistine, Spartan, absolute interest, accustomed, adequate, all right, artificial turf, ascetic, associated, austere, average, back number, bald, banal, bare, base,… …

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  • 119crushing — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, annoying, arduous, awkward, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, chastening, disconcerting, disturbing, effortful, embarrassing, forced, grueling, hard earned, hard fought, heavy, hefty, humbling …

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  • 120current — Synonyms and related words: AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, accepted, accessible, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, active current, actual, ado, advance, advised, affirmed, affluence, afflux, affluxion,… …

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