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• Perseverance
  ...nce in a course of [[action]] or [[purpose]]; steadfast pursuit of an aim, esp. in the face of difficulty or obstacles; assiduity. *3. Constancy, fidelity, esp. in [[love]]. Also personified. Obs.
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• Joy
  :g. colloq. Result, satisfaction, success. Esp. with negative, and freq. [[ironic]]al. *2. A pleasurable state or condition; a state of happiness or felicity; esp. the perfect bliss or beatitude of [[heaven]]; hence, the place of bliss, [
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• Prostitute
  ...woman who engages in [[sexual]] [[action|activity]] in return for payment, esp. as a means of livelihood; (formerly also) any promiscuous woman, a harlot. :c. A man who engages in sexual (esp. homosexual) activity in return for payment. Freq. as male prostitute
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• Conquest
  ...er]]red uses) the only popular sense. The general sense of acquisition and esp. the legal sense as opposed to inheritance, is chiefly Scotch and prominent *3 : Mountaineering. The successful [[ascent]] of a mountain, esp. one previously unclimbed.
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• Attention
  ...n phr. to pay or give attention. The mental power or faculty of attending; esp. with attract, call, draw, arrest, fix, etc.
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• Intensity
  *3. Of [[personal]], esp. mental, [[action]], etc.: Strained or strenuously directed to some end; in ...ion]] or [[affection]]. Also, manifesting intense emotion or excitability, esp. in [[æsthetic]] or [[intellectual]] [[contexts]].
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• Observation
  *1. An [[action]], esp. of a [[religious]] and ceremonial [[nature]], performed in accordance with *7. a. The action or an act of observing [[scientific]]ally; esp. the careful watching and noting of an object or [[phenomenon]] in regard t
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• Challenge
  *2. a. The [[act]] of calling to account; esp. the act of a sentry in demanding the countersign. 14th century :b. In weakened use: a difficult or demanding task, esp. one seen as a test of one's abilities or [[character]]. 20th century
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• Milieu
  *1. An [[environment]]; surroundings, esp. social surroundings. Cf. MEDIUM n. 5b.
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• Cavalier
  :a: archaic or [[literary]] a courtly [[gentleman]], esp. one acting as a lady's [[escort]]. :b: archaic a horseman, esp. a cavalryman.
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• Husband
  :b. In later times esp. with qualifying epithet as in 5. Obs. ...appointed by the owners to attend to the business of a ship while in port, esp. to attend to her stores, equipment, and repairs, and see that the ship is
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• Majesty
  :e. Roman Hist. The [[sovereign]] power and dignity of the [[Roman]] people, esp. considered with reference to offences against it. Cf. LESE-MAJESTY n. Obs. ...of a crowned eagle holding in its talons a [[symbol]] of sovereign power, esp. a sceptre or orb. Obs.
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• Mechanism
  *4. Philos. The opinion or doctrine that all natural (esp. biological or mental) [[phenomena]] can be explained with reference to mec Associated esp. with Descartes (1596-1650). Cf. MECHANICALISM n. 1a, MECHANICISM n. 3.
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• Imagery
  ...ctively; descriptive representation of [[ideas]]; figurative illustration, esp. of an ornate character. :b. In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts visual arts], esp. [[film]]: the representation of [[ideas]] with images; [[visual]] [[metaph
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• Necessity
  ...ving its basis in the natural [[order]] or [[constitution]] of [[things]], esp. such constraint conceived as a [[law]] prevailing throughout the [[materia *9. a. The condition of being in difficulties or straits, esp. through lack of means; want, poverty.
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• Guilty
  1. having committed an offense, [[crime]], violation, or wrong, esp. against [[moral]] or penal [[law]]; justly subject to a certain accusation
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• Possessed
  *B. noun. A possessed [[person]] or [[thing]]; esp. (with the and pl. concord) people possessed by a demon or [[spirit]] as a
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• Desertion
  *1. The [[action]] of deserting, forsaking, or abandoning, esp. a [[person]] or [[thing]] that has [[moral]] or legal claims to the desert ...t or of [[duty]], in violation of a [[legal]] or [[moral]] [[obligation]]; esp. such abandonment of the [[military]] or naval service. Also, wilful abando
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• Ransom
  ...ey]] paid to obtain [[pardon]] for an [[offence]] or imposed as a penalty, esp. one exacted for a significant [[offence]]; a fine. *3: A sum of [[money]], esp. a large one, such as one might pay as a punitive fine or as a payment for
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• Self-gratification
  .... To show [[gratitude]] to (a [[person]]) in return for benefits received, esp. in a [[practical]] [[manner]]; to reward, requite. Obs. *2. To make a present (usually of [[money]]) or give a gratuity to, esp. as a reward or recompense, or as a bribe; to remunerate; to fee. Also, to
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