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  • 41St. Paul —     St. Paul     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Paul     I. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS     A. Apocryphal Acts of St. Paul     Professor Schmidt has published a photographic copy, a transcription, a German translation, and a commentary of a Coptic… …

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  • 42imagery —    Also known as visual imagery. The term imagery comes from the Latin verb imaginari,which means to copy, to imitate, to picture. It tends to be used in a rather loose sense to denote a recollection or fantasy presenting itself as a picture in… …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 43vivid — 01. Her son has a very [vivid] imagination, and draws wonderful pictures of little magical animals, and the castles they live in. 02. The many [vivid] colors of the different rooms in their house create moods which change from room to room. 03.… …

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  • 44vivid — [[t]vɪ̱vɪd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you describe memories and descriptions as vivid, you mean that they are very clear and detailed. People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence... On… …

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  • 45soft — adj Soft, bland, mild, gentle, smooth, lenient, balmy are applied to things with respect to the sensations they evoke or the impressions they produce and mean pleasantly agreeable because devoid of all harshness or roughness. Soft is applied… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 46flash — n 1. streak, patch, glint, lightning; shaft, ray, beam; gleam, glare, fulguration, coruscation; brightness, dazzle, dazzling, bedazzlement, bedazzling, blinding; blaze, flame, flare, spark, scintilla, scintillation; shimmer, flicker, twinkle,… …

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  • 47glare — n 1. brilliance, brightness, dazzling, splendor, resplendence; shine, luster, illumination, luminosity, effulgence, radiance; blinding flash, harsh or strong light, intensity, vividness; blaze, flare, flame, fulguration, coruscation,… …

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  • 48faint — /feɪnt / (say faynt) adjective 1. lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint colour; faint resemblance. 2. feeble; half hearted: faint resistance; faint praise. 3. feeling weak, dizzy, or exhausted; …

  • 49blue streak — ☆ blue streak n. Informal anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc. anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc. talk a blue streak to talk much and rapidly …

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  • 50Dullness — Dull ness, n. The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also {dulness}.] [1913 Webster] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke …

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