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  • 91forbearing — forbearing, tolerant, clement, merciful, lenient, indulgent mean disinclined by nature, disposition, or circumstances to be severe or rigorous. The same differences in implications and connotations are observable in their corresponding nouns… …

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  • 92include — include, comprehend, embrace, involve, imply, subsume are comparable when meaning basically to contain something within as a part or portion of a whole. Include suggests that the thing included forms a constituent, component, or subordinate part… …

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  • 93lapse — n 1 slip, *error, mistake, blunder, faux pas, bull, howler, boner Analogous words: *offense, sin, vice, crime: *fault, failing, frailty, foible: transgression, *breach, violation, trespass 2 relapse, backsliding (see under LAPSE vb) …

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  • 94poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… …

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  • 95prayer — prayer, suit, plea, petition, appeal mean an earnest and usually a formal request for something and their corresponding intransitive verbs pray, sue, plead, petition, appeal mean to make such a request. Prayer and pray imply that the request is… …

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  • 96recover — 1 Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, recruit can mean to get back something that has been let go or lost. Recover, the most comprehensive of these terms, may imply a finding or obtaining something material or immaterial that has been lost… …

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  • 97return — vb 1 Return, revert, recur, recrudesce are comparable when they mean to go or come back (as to a person or to a place or condition). The same distinctions in implications and connotations are evident in their corresponding nouns return, reversion …

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  • 98infer — [c]/ɪnˈfɜ / (say in fer) verb (inferred, inferring) –verb (t) 1. to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence. 2. (of facts, circumstances, statements, etc.) to indicate or involve as a conclusion; imply. 3. to imply or… …

  • 99ADOPTION — ADOPTION, taking another s child as one s own. Alleged Cases of Adoption in the Bible The evidence for adoption in the Bible is so equivocal that some have denied it was practiced in the biblical period. (A) GENESIS 15:2–3. Being childless, Abram …

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  • 100Involve — In*volve , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Involved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Involving}.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Involute}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To roll or fold up;… …

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