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  • 1luck — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ better, good, great ▪ blind, dumb (AmE), plain, pure, sheer ▪ It was sheer luck …

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  • 2ill — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (usu. predic.; often foll. by with) out of health; sick (is ill; was taken ill with pneumonia; mentally ill people). 2 (of health) unsound, disordered. 3 wretched, unfavourable (ill fortune; ill luck). 4 harmful (ill… …

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  • 3ill — 1 /Il/ adjective 1 (not usually before noun) especially BrE suffering from a disease or not feeling well; sick: Bridget can t come she s ill. | feel ill: I was feeling ill that day, and decided to stay at home. | be taken ill/fall ill (=become… …

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  • 4ill — ill1 W3S3 [ıl] adj [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: illr] 1.) especially BrE suffering from a disease or not feeling well American Equivalent: sick ▪ Bridget can t come she s ill. ▪ I was feeling ill that day and decided to stay at home. ▪… …

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  • 5ill — ill1 W3S3 [ıl] adj [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: illr] 1.) especially BrE suffering from a disease or not feeling well American Equivalent: sick ▪ Bridget can t come she s ill. ▪ I was feeling ill that day and decided to stay at home. ▪… …

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  • 6Pot Luck (album) — Infobox Album Name = Pot Luck Type = studio Longtype = Artist = Elvis Presley Released = June 5, 1962 Recorded = March 1961 toMarch 1962 Genre = Rock Length = 28:11 Label = RCA Records Producer = Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley Reviews = Allmusic… …

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  • 7Chance — I (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of assignable cause. < N PARAG:Chance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 chance chance indetermination accident fortune hazard hap haphazard chance medley random luck raccroc casualty …

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  • 8Untimeliness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Untimeliness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{ant,134,} untimeliness intempestivity unseasonableness inexpedience Sgm: N 1 unsuitable time unsuitable time improper time Sgm: N 1 unreasonableness unreasonableness &c …

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  • 9The Luck of Barry Lyndon — (1844)    The source material for STANLEY KUBRICK’s BARRY LYNDON is WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY’s picaresque novel of an 18th century rogue. Originally titled The Luck of Barry Lyndon, A Romance of the Last Century, by George Savage Fitz Boodle,… …

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  • 10Gujar Mal Modi — Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi is counted among the noted industrialists of India who have aided in the building strengthening of the pillars of Indian autonomy. He had a multi faceted personality. He was a born administrator and an ardent believer of …

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