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  • 71bitterness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being bitter to the tongue] Syn. tartness, piquancy, pungency, astringency, acidity, acerbity, sourness, acridity, brackishness, brininess, sharpness, harshness. Ant. sweetness*, blandness, delectability. 2.… …

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  • 72Adversity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Adversity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 adversity adversity evil &c. 619 Sgm: N 1 failure failure &c. 732 Sgm: N 1 bad luck bad luck ill luck evil luck adverse luck hard fortune …

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  • 73painful — (adj.) mid 14c., from PAIN (Cf. pain) (n.) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Painfully; painfulness …

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  • 74mitigation — [[t]mɪ̱tɪge͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] 1) PHRASE: PHR with cl If someone, especially in a court, is told something in mitigation, they are told something that makes a crime or fault easier to understand and excuse. [FORMAL] Kieran Coonan QC told the judge in… …

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  • 75achiness — n. painfulness, soreness …

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  • 76dolorousness — n. painfulness; grievousness, mournfulness …

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  • 77painful — adjective 1》 affected with or causing pain. 2》 informal embarrassingly bad or inept. Derivatives painfully adverb painfulness noun …

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  • 78sharpness — n. 1. Acuteness, keenness. 2. Sagacity, shrewdness, ingenuity, wit, cleverness, quickness, acuteness, discernment, acumen. 3. Pungency, piquancy, acridity, acidity, tartness. 4. Severity, sarcasm, satire, pungency. 5. Poignancy, intensity,… …

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  • 79painful — adjective 1 making you feel very upset, or very difficult and unpleasant for you: be painful for sb (to do sth): It s still painful for her to talk about the divorce. | painful memories/experience: Hearing about the war again brings back painful… …

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  • 80pungency — n 1. acridity, sting, acrid taste or smell; sourness, tang, tartness, bitterness, nip, acidity, vinegar; savoriness, spiciness, flavorfulness, pepperiness, saltiness. 2. poignance, pathos, touchingness, patheticalness, piteousness;… …

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