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  • 101grinding — Synonyms and related words: ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, application, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, atomization, attrition, attritive, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beating …

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  • 102rasping — Synonyms and related words: ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, air pollution, attrition, attritive, attritus, bones, bran, buffing, burnishing, chafe, chaff, chafing, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, culm, deadwood, detrition,… …

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  • 103shoot — Synonyms and related words: Photostat, X ray, Xerox, ache, acute pain, agonize, ail, aim at, altitude peak, anguish, annihilate, assassinate, automatic control, backfire, barf, barrage, be bright, beacon, beam, beat, bedazzle, behead, bine, bite …

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  • 104attrition — n 1. friction, rubbing, rubbing against; abrasion, whetting, sanding, pumicing, grinding, filing, chafing, fraying, fretting, corrosion, corroding, gnawing, eating out or away, consumption, consuming, devouring; scraping, scrape, excoriation,… …

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  • 105gnaw at — phrasal verb gnaw at or gnaw away at [transitive] Word forms gnaw at : present tense I/you/we/they gnaw at he/she/it gnaws at present participle gnawing at past tense gnawed at past participle gnawed at gnaw (away) at someone if something gnaws… …

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  • 106gnaw — [[t]nɔ[/t]] v. t. 1) to bite or chew on, esp. persistently: The kitten gnawed the slippers[/ex] 2) to wear away or remove by persistent biting 3) to form by gnawing: to gnaw a hole[/ex] 4) to waste or wear away 5) to trouble or torment by… …

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  • 107Wombat — Taxobox name = WombatsMSW3 Groves|pages=43 44] fossil range = Pleistocene to Recent image caption = Common Wombat in the snow regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia infraclassis = Marsupialia ordo = Diprotodontia subordo =… …

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  • 108Titus Andronicus — may be Shakespeare s earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by… …

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  • 109Rugby, Warwickshire — Infobox UK place country = England official name= Rugby latitude= 52.37 longitude= 1.26 civil parish= population = 61,988 (2001 Census) shire district= Rugby shire county= Warwickshire region= West Midlands constituency westminster= Rugby and… …

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  • 110John Demjanjuk — Demjanjuk (centre) hearing his death sentence on April 25, 1988, in Jerusalem, Israel. This sentence was later overturned. Born April 3, 1920 (1920 04 03) (age&#160 …

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