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  • 71Success — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Success >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 success success successfulness Sgm: N 1 speed speed Sgm: N 1 advance advance &c.(progress) 282 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 trump card trump card Sgm: N 2 …

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  • 72success — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Favorable termination Nouns 1. success, successfulness; good fortune, luck, run of luck; prosperity; accomplishment (see completion); one s finest hour. 2. (financial success) great success, land office… …

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  • 73improvement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Making better Nouns 1. improvement, uplift; melioration, amelioration, betterment, uptick; mend, amendment, emendation; advancement, advance, development, progress, telesis, quantum jump or leap,… …

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  • 74improve — I. v. a. 1. Amend, mend, better, meliorate, ameliorate, make better, rectify. 2. Use, make use of, turn to account, avail one s self of. 3. Make a good use of, turn to good account, employ advantageously, make productive. II. v. n. 1. Mend, gain …

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  • 75John Colgan — (born in County Donegal, Ireland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century; died probably in 1657) was an Irish hagiographer and historian. Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 4 External links …

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  • 76Colgan, John — • Hagiographer and historian, b. in County Donegal, Ireland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century; d. probably in 1657 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Colgan, John      …

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  • 77John Colgan —     John Colgan     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► John Colgan     Hagiographer and historian, b. in County Donegal, Ireland, about the beginning of the seventeenth century; d. probably in 1657. Having joined the Franciscan Order he was sent to study… …

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  • 78capitalize — cap·i·tal·ize / ka pət əl ˌīz/ vt ized, iz·ing 1 a: to convert into capital capitalize the company s earnings b: to treat as a capital expenditure rather than an ordinary and necessary expense the cost of the merger must be capitalized …

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  • 79ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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  • 80Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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