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  • 61Danger — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Danger >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 danger danger peril insecurity jeopardy risk hazard venture precariousness slipperiness Sgm: N 1 instability instability &c. 149 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 62totter — verb 1》 move in an unsteady way. 2》 [usu. as adjective tottering] (of a building) shake or rock as if about to collapse. 3》 be insecure or about to fail. noun a tottering gait. Derivatives totterer noun tottery adjective Origin ME: from MDu.… …

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  • 63shake — vb 1 Shake, tremble, quake, totter, quiver, shiver, shudder, quaver, wobble, teeter, shimmy, dither are comparable when they mean to exhibit vibratory, wavering, or oscillating movement often as an evidence of instability. Shake, the ordinary and …

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  • 64vacillating — adj 1. vacillant, vacillatory, indecisive, irresolute, unresolved, unsettled, uncertain, undecided, ambivalent, of two minds; of mixed feelings; wavering, dithering, faltering, hesitating, hesitant, wishy washy; oscillating, fluctuating, going… …

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  • 65totter — UK [ˈtɒtə(r)] / US [ˈtɑtər] verb [intransitive] Word forms totter : present tense I/you/we/they totter he/she/it totters present participle tottering past tense tottered past participle tottered 1) to stand or move in a way that is not steady… …

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  • 66σαλευτόν — σαλευτός tottering masc acc sg σαλευτός tottering neut nom/voc/acc sg …

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  • 67tottery — adjective unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age a tottering skeleton of a horse a tottery old man • Syn: ↑tottering • Similar to: ↑unsteady …

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  • 68HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 69Bell's palsy — Palsy Pal sy, n.; pl. {Palsies}. [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See {Paralysis}.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See {Paralysis}. One sick of the palsy. Mark ii. 3. [1913 Webster] {Bell s palsy},… …

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  • 70Distemper — Dis*tem per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distempered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distempering}.] [OF. destemprer, destremper, to distemper, F. d[ e]tremper to soak, soften, slake (lime); pref. des (L. dis ) + OF. temprer, tremper, F. tremper, L. temperare to… …

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