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  • 91embarrassment — [n] humiliation, shame awkwardness, awkward situation, bashfulness, bind, boo boo*, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face*, faux pas, fix,… …

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  • 92scrape — [n] bad or embarrassing situation awkward situation, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, distress, embarrassment, fix*, hole*, jam*, mess*, pickle*, plight, predicament, tight spot*, trouble; concept 674 Ant. resolution, solution scrape… …

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  • 93fix — Verb: To fasten securely; to mend or repair. To arrange, establish, or prescribe. Colloquially, to bribe a juror or a judge. Noun: A determined position in navigation. Colloquially, a predicament or awkward situation. Also colloquially, a portion …

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  • 94jam — Ⅰ. jam [1] ► VERB (jammed, jamming) 1) squeeze or pack tightly into a space. 2) push roughly and forcibly into a position. 3) block (something such as a road) through crowding. 4) become or make unable to function due to a part becoming stuck …

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  • 95pickle — [pik′əl] n. [ME pikil < MDu pekel < ? picken, to prick, in sense “that which pricks, or is piquant”] 1. any brine, vinegar, or spicy solution used to preserve or marinate food 2. a vegetable, specif. a cucumber, preserved in such a solution …

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  • 96plight — plight1 [plīt] n. [ME plit, state, condition < Anglo Fr for OFr pleit, a fold, way of folding, condition (see PLAIT): sense infl. by ME plight < OE pliht: see PLIGHT2] a condition or state of affairs; esp., now, an awkward, sad, or… …

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  • 97jam — 1. v. & n. v.tr. & intr. (jammed, jamming) 1 a tr. (usu. foll. by into) squeeze or wedge into a space. b intr. become wedged. 2 a tr. cause (machinery or a component) to become wedged or immovable so that it cannot work. b intr. become jammed in… …

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  • 98UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism