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  • 91inclemency — n. 1. Severity, rigor, harshness, boisterousness, storminess, tempestuousness, roughness. 2. Want of clemency, harshness, unmercifulness, severity …

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  • 92roughness — n. 1. Unevenness, ruggedness. 2. Harshness, rudeness, coarseness, incivility, gruffness, bluntness, impoliteness. 3. Acerbity, unsavoriness, astringency, harshness. 4. Storminess, boisterousness, tempestuousness, inclemency, violence. 5. Violence …

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  • 93severity — n. 1. Sternness, harshness, rigor, austerity, gravity, strictness. 2. Strictness, exactness, accuracy. 3. Simplicity, plainness. 4. Sharpness, keenness, causticity, acrimony. 5. Extremity, afflictiveness, violence, keenness. 6. Harshness, cruel… …

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  • 94rigor — noun 1) a mine operated under conditions of rigor Syn: strictness, severity, stringency, toughness, harshness, rigidity, inflexibility, intransigence 2) intellectual rigor Syn: meticulousness, thoroughness, carefuln …

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  • 95amenity — 1 Amenity, luxury both denote something (as an object, a feature, a quality, or an experience) that gives refined or exquisite pleasure or is exceedingly pleasing to the mind or senses. Amenity typically implies a delightful mildness, gentleness …

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  • 96scrape — vb Scrape, scratch, grate, rasp, grind are comparable when they mean to apply friction to something by rubbing it with or against a thing that is harsh, rough, or sharp. Scrape usually implies the removal of something from a surface with an edged …

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  • 97acidity — n 1.(all usu. of taste) sourness, bitterness, vinegariness, acidulousness; tartness, harshness, sharpness, acridity, acerbity. 2.(all usu. of expression or temperament) astringency, severity, sternness, harshness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; …

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  • 98rigor — n 1. rigorousness, rigorism, strictness, stringency, closeness, tightness; rigidity, rigidness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, unbendingness, stiffness, formality, formalness; severity, severeness, harshness, toughness, roughness, asperity,… …

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  • 99roughness — n 1. coarseness, ruggedness, bumpiness, jaggedness, cragginess, cragginess; stoniness, rockiness; knottedness, nodosity, gnarledness; wrin kledness, nugosity, crinkledness, corrugation; lumpiness; irregularity, unevenness. 2. hairiness,… …

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  • 100tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …

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