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  • 21validity — n 1. effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality, efficaciousness; potency, Literary. puissance, force, forcefulness, forcibleness, power, powerfulness, strength, vigor, vigorousness; substan tialness, substantiality, substantiveness …

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  • 22vigor — n 1. strength, power, potency, virility, force, birr, Literary. puissance; stamina, endurance, staying power, mettle, pluck, sap, pith, nerve, steel, Inf. spunk, Inf. starch, Sl. moxie; health, healthiness, haleness, soundness, heartiness,… …

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  • 23forcible — /ˈfɔsəbəl / (say fawsuhbuhl) adjective 1. effected by force: *Washington has never recognised the forcible incorporation of the independent states of Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania into the USSR … –herald, 1990. 2. having force; producing a… …

  • 24might — [n] ability, power adequacy, arm, authority, capability, capacity, clout, command, competence, control, domination, efficacy, efficiency, energy, force, forcefulness, forcibleness, get up and go*, jurisdiction, lustiness, mastery, moxie*, muscle* …

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  • 25oppression — [n] misery, hardship abuse, abusiveness, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, forcibleness, hardness, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand*,… …

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  • 26weight — [n1] heaviness adiposity, avoirdupois, ballast, burden, density, G factor*, gravity, gross, heft, heftiness, load, mass, measurement, net, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, pressure, substance, tonnage; concept 795 weight [n2] something used… …

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  • 27forcible — [fôr′sə bəl] adj. [ME < OFr] 1. done or effected by force; involving the use of force 2. having force; forceful forcibleness n. forcibly adv …

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  • 28forcible — adj. done by or involving force; forceful. Derivatives: forcibleness n. forcibly adv. Etymology: ME f. AF & OF (as FORCE(1)) …

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