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  • 81confidence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. assurance, certainty, positiveness; spirit, boldness, self reliance; communication; privacy, secret; faith, trust. See belief, courage, hope. Ant.,doubt, uncertainty. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Faith] …

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  • 82Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 83certainty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Confidence in being right Nouns 1. certainty, certitude, confidence, sureness, conviction, surety, assurance, faith; dead or moral certainty; positiveness, assuredness; self confidence, reliance, or… …

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  • 84aplomb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. poise, [self ]assurance. See inexcitability. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [uh PLOM] confidence, poise. She addressed the audience with great aplomb. SYN.: confidence, poise, self …

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  • 85literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 86restraint — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Oregon boat, abnegation, absolutism, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, appropriateness, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assurance, backwardness, balance, ban, bashfulness, bilbo, blankness, block, blockage,… …

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  • 87aplomb — Synonyms and related words: assurance, balance, balanced personality, composure, confidence, constancy, constraint, control, cool, coolness, discipline, ease, easiness, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, erectness, fastness, firmness,… …

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  • 88possession — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, accessories, acquest, acquire, acquisition, affluence, alienation, ally, aplomb, appointments, appurtenances, archduchy, archdukedom, assets, assurance, baggage, balance, bedevilment,… …

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  • 89arrogance — Synonyms and related words: airs, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, bluster, boastfulness, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenness, bumptiousness, certitude, cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness,… …

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  • 90pride — Synonyms and related words: Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, acedia, anger, army, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, assurance, assuredness, avarice, avaritia, be proud of, belief, best, bighead, boast, boastfulness, brag …

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