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  • 21love — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Strong affection Nouns 1. love, fondness, liking; inclination, desire; regard, admiration, affection, tenderness, heart, attachment, yearning; gallantry; passion, flame, devotion, infatuation, adoration; …

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  • 22passion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. love; fervor, ardor, intensity, fever; infatuation, desire; emotion, rage, anger, fury; excitement; informal, predilection, preference. See feeling, violence. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Sexual deSire] Syn …

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  • 23feeling — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Emotional sensation See also touch, taste Nouns 1. feeling, sensation, sentience, emotion, sensibility, sensitivity; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, experience, response; vibrations; impression,… …

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  • 24passion — n 1 suffering, agony, dolor, *distress, misery Analogous words: *trial, tribulation, cross, visitation, affliction 2 *feeling, emotion, affection, sentiment Analogous words: inspiration, frenzy: *ecstasy, raptur …

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  • 25Attachment — At*tach ment, n. [F. attachment.] 1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an? passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. [1913 Webster] 2. That …

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  • 26passion — [n1] strong emotion affection, affectivity, agony, anger, animation, ardor, dedication, devotion, distress, dolor, eagerness, ecstasy, excitement, feeling, fervor, fire, fit, flare up, frenzy, fury, heat, hurrah, indignation, intensity, ire, joy …

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  • 27devotion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dedication; piety, godliness; affection, love; (pl.) prayers, worship. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. allegiance, service, consecration, dedication, commitment, devotedness, adoration, piety, zeal, ardor,… …

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  • 28passion — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Late Latin passion , passio suffering, being acted upon, from Latin pati to suffer more at patient Date: 13th century 1. often capitalized a. the sufferings of Christ between the night of… …

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  • 29Syllepse — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Syllepse (homonymie). La syllepse, du grec ancien σύλληψις, súllêpsis, littéralement « action de prendre ensemble, d’embrasser, de comprendre » est une figure de style par laquelle le discours répond à… …

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  • 30literature — /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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