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  • 121syncretism — Synonyms and related words: Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alliance, alloyage, amalgamation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cartel, casualness, centralization, coalescence,… …

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  • 122unfinish — Synonyms and related words: callowness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, greenness, immatureness, immaturity, nondevelopment, oversimplicity, oversimplification, rawness, reductionism, roughness, rudeness, simplism, the rough, uncultivation,… …

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  • 123philosophy — There has always been a tendency in Christian thought which is suspicious of philosophy and human reasoning. Paul (1 Cor. 1: 16 ff.) denigrated wisdom: it had no power to save, compared with the ‘foolishness of the cross’. In modern times the… …

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  • 124finish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. end, terminate, complete, conclude; useup, polish off. n. completion, conclusion; poise, polish; surface, patina. See elegance, exterior, texture. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The end] Syn. close,… …

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  • 125groom — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bridegroom, benedict. See marriage, servant. v. dress, tend, polish, curry; coach, train. See domestication, cleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A male servant] Syn. hostler, stable boy, equerry; see… …

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  • 126roughness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of not being smooth or even Nouns 1. roughness, unevenness, ruggedness, asperity, rugosity, corrugation, nodosity, nodulation, hairiness, arborescence, tooth, grain, texture, ripple. 2. (hairlike …

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  • 127vulgarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bad taste Nouns 1. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism; offense, bad taste; inelegance, indelicacy; gaucherie, ill breeding, discourtesy, incivility; coarseness, indecorum, boorishness; rowdyism,… …

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  • 128barbarity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Savagery] Syn. savageness, cruelty, brutality; see cruelty . 2. [Crudity] Syn. boorishness, vulgarity, crudeness; see rudeness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. barbarism, savagery, ignorance, cloddishness, brutality,… …

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