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  • 61salvation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. redemption, deliverance, reclamation, salvage. See piety, restoration. Ant., damnation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of preservation] Syn. deliverance, extrication, liberation, emancipation, rescue …

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  • 62predicament — predicament, dilemma, quandary, plight, scrape, fix, jam, pickle can all denote a situation from which one does or can extricate himself only with difficulty. Predicament carries the implication that the situation constitutes a problem for those… …

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  • 63disentanglement — noun the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition • Syn: ↑unsnarling, ↑untangling, ↑extrication • Derivationally related forms: ↑extricate (for: ↑extrication), ↑disentangle, ↑ …

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  • 64unsnarling — noun the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition • Syn: ↑untangling, ↑disentanglement, ↑extrication • Derivationally related forms: ↑extricate (for: ↑extrication), ↑disentangle …

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  • 65untangling — noun the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition • Syn: ↑unsnarling, ↑disentanglement, ↑extrication • Derivationally related forms: ↑extricate (for: ↑extrication), ↑disentangle …

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  • 66Entangle — En*tan gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entangling}.] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. [1913 Webster] 2. To …

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  • 67Entangled — Entangle En*tan gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entangling}.] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. [1913… …

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  • 68Entangling — Entangle En*tan gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entangling}.] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. [1913… …

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  • 69extricate — transitive verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Latin extricatus, past participle of extricare, from ex + tricae trifles, perplexities Date: 1601 1. a. archaic unravel b. to distinguish from a related thing 2. to free or remove from an entanglement… …

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  • 70Henry Kissinger — in 1976. 56th United States Secretary of State In office September 22, 1973 – January 20, 1977 President …

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