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  • 121Alex Shoumatoff — Alex Shoumatoff, (born November 4, 1946 in Mount Kisco, New York), is an American writer, known for his literary journalism, nature and environmental writing, and books and magazine pieces about world travels, political and environmental… …

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  • 122Battle of Catana (397 BC) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= Battle of Catana (397 BC) partof=The Sicilian Wars campaign=The Second Sicilian War date=Summer, 397 BC place=Catana|SicilyResult=Decisive Carthaginian Victory casus=Syracusan attack on Motya territory= Greek… …

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  • 123faint-hearted — faint heart|ed [ˌfeınt ˈha:tıd US a:r ] adj 1.) not trying very hard, because you do not want to do something, or you are not confident that you can succeed = ↑half hearted ▪ She made a rather faint hearted attempt to stop him from leaving. 2.)… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 124faint-hearted — adjective 1 not trying very hard, because you do not want to do something, or you are not confident that you can succeed: She made a rather faint hearted attempt to stop him from leaving. 2 not for the faint hearted humorous used to say that… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 125shy — 1 (I) adjective 1 nervous and embarrassed about talking to other people, especially people you do not know: Billy s very shy with adults, but he s fine with other children. | a shy smile | painfully shy (=extremely shy): At 15, I was painfully… …

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  • 126insecure — adj 1. unsafe, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy, unreliable; precarious, dangerous, perilous, hazardous, ticklish, risky, chancy, slippery, hanging by a thread, Sl. hairy. 2. vulnerable, open, susceptible, assailable, unprotected, defenseless;… …

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  • 127dip into — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms dip into : present tense I/you/we/they dip into he/she/it dips into present participle dipping into past tense dipped into past participle dipped into 1) dip into something to read, watch, or listen to small… …

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  • 128uncertain — un•cer•tain [[t]ʌnˈsɜr tn[/t]] adj. 1) not known precisely; not fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, or size 2) not confident or assured; hesitant 3) not clearly determined; unknown: a manuscript of uncertain origin[/ex] 4) vague or… …

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