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  • 81calm — adj Calm, tranquil, serene, placid, peaceful, halcyonmean quiet and free from all that disturbs or excites. Calm is primarily applied to sea or weather, usually conveys an implicit contrast with its opposite, stormy, and suggests freedom, real or …

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  • 82Miami Beach, Florida — Miami Beach redirects here. For the beach in Barbados, see Miami Beach, Barbados. See also: South Beach and North Beach (Miami Beach) Miami Beach City of Miami Beach   City   …

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  • 83Kerala Backwaters — The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and… …

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  • 84Subject complement — In grammar, a subject complement is a phrase or clause that follows a linking verb (copula) and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it. The former, a renaming noun (or sometimes a… …

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  • 85Qingjing Jing — The Qingjing Jing (zh cpwl|c=清靜經|p= Qīngjìng jing |w= Ch ing Ching Ching |l= Scripture of Clarity and Quiescence) is an anonymous 9th century CE Daoist classic that combines philosophical themes from the Daode jing with Chinese Buddhist… …

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  • 86placid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. serene, unruffled; calm, cool, collected; gentle, peaceful, quiet, undisturbed. See inexcitability. Ant., stormy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. calm, composed, quiet, unruffled; see calm 1 , 2 ,… …

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  • 87quiet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. peaceful, tranquil, serene; hushed, silent; modest, restrained, subdued; gentle, calm; unostentatious. See repose. n. quietude, peacefulness, calm; silence, hush. See moderation, inexcitability. Ant …

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  • 88still — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. silent, quiet, hushed; calm, peaceful, tranquil; motionless, at rest, stationary. See silence.Ant., active, in motion, agitated. adv. yet, nevertheless. See compensation. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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  • 89tranquilize — also tranquillize verb ( ized; also lized; izing; also lizing) Date: 1623 transitive verb to make tranquil or calm ; pacify; especially to relieve of mental tension and anxiety by means of drugs intransitive verb 1 …

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  • 90calm — I. noun Etymology: Middle English calme, probably ultimately from Old Spanish calma, from Late Latin cauma heat, from Greek kauma, from kaiein to burn Date: 14th century 1. a. a period or condition of freedom from storms, high winds, or rough… …

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