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Benediction

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A prayer that asks God’s blessing, especially a prayer that concludes a worship service.

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Benefactor

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Someone who helps another person or group, especially by giving money.

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Beneficiary

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A person or organization that benefits or is expected to benefit from something, especially one that receives money or property when someone dies.

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Benevolence

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Kindness, generosity.

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Amicable

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Friendly, peaceful. When amicable describes more personal relations, it may indicate a rather formal friendliness.

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Enamored

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Charmed or fascinated; inflamed with love.

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Amorous

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Having or showing strong feelings of attraction or love.

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Paramour

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A lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom.

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A prayer that asks God’s blessing, especially a prayer that concludes a worship service.

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Benediction

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Someone who helps another person or group, especially by giving money.

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Benefactor

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A person or organization that benefits or is expected to benefit from something, especially one that receives money or property when someone dies.

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Beneficiary

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Kindness, generosity.

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Benevolence

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Friendly, peaceful. Describes more personal relations, it may indicate a rather formal friendliness.

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Amicable

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Charmed or fascinated; inflamed with love.

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Enamored

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Having or showing strong feelings of attraction or love.

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Amorous

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A lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom.

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Paramour

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Antebellum

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Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War.

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Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War.

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Antebellum

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Bellicose

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Warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome. This word is generally applied to nations and their leaders.

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Warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome. This word is generally applied to nations and their leaders.

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Bellicose

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Belligerence

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Aggressiveness, to have a truculent attitude.

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Aggressiveness, to have a truculent attitude.

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Belligerence

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Rebellion

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Open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority.

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Open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority.

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Rebellion

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Pacify

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To soothe anger or agitation. To subdue by armed action.

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Pacifist

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A person opposed to war or violence, especially someone who refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds.

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Pact

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An agreement between two or more people or groups; a treaty or formal agreement between nations to deal with a problem or to resolve a dispute.

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Pace

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Contrary to the opinion of.

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To soothe anger or agitation. To subdue by armed action.

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Pacify

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A person opposed to war or violence, especially someone who refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds.

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Pacifist

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An agreement between two or more people or groups; a treaty or formal agreement between nations to deal with a problem or to resolve a dispute.

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Pact

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Contrary to the opinion of.

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Pace

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Recrimination

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An accusation in answer to an accusation made against one self.
Making such an accusation.

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An accusation in answer to an accusation made against one self.
Making such an accusation.

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Recrimination

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Approbation

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A formal or official act of approving; praise, usually given with pleasure or enthusiasm.

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Probate

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The process of proving in court that the will of someone who has died is valid, and of administering the estate of a dead person.

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Probity

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Absolute honesty and uprightness.

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Reprobate

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A person of thoroughly bad character.

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A formal or official act of approving; praise, usually given with pleasure or enthusiasm.

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Approbation

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The process of proving in court that the will of someone who has died is valid, and of administering the estate of a dead person.

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Probate

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Absolute honesty and uprightness.

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Probity

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A person of thoroughly bad character.

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Reprobate

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Grave

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Requiring serious though or concern.

Serious and formal in appearance or manner.

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Gravitas

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Great or very dignified seriousness.

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Gravitate

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To move or be drawn toward something especially by natural tendency or as if by an invisible force.

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aggravate

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To make (an injury, problem, etc.) more serious or severe.
to annoy or bother.
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Requiring serious though or concern.

Serious and formal in appearance or manner.

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Grave

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Great or very dignified seriousness.

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Gravitas

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To move or be drawn toward something especially by natural tendency or as if by an invisible force.

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Gravitate

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To make (an injury, problem, etc.) more serious or severe.
to annoy or bother.
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aggravate

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Levity

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The lack of appropriate seriousness.

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The lack of appropriate seriousness.

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Levity

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