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Nouns
1. (n.) hierarchy;
  - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system;
  - “put honesty first in her hierarchy of values”;

2. (n.) hierarchy, pecking order, power structure;
  - the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body;

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Nouns
1. (n.) agoraphobia;
  - a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place);

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Nouns
1. (n.) rebuff, repulse, snub;
  - an instance of driving away or warding off;

Verbs
1. (verb) drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel, repulse;
  - force or drive back;
  - “repel the attacker”; “fight off the onslaught”; “rebuff the attack”;

2. (verb) repel, repulse;
  - be repellent to; cause aversion in;

3. (verb) beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel, repulse;
  - cause to move back by force or influence;
  - “repel the enemy”; “push back the urge to smoke”; “beat back the invaders”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) strenuous;
  - characterized by or performed with much energy or force;
  - “strenuous exercise”;

2. (adj.) arduous, straining, strenuous;
  - taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance;
  - “his final, straining burst of speed”; “a strenuous task”; “your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) salient;
  - (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking;
  - having a quality that thrusts itself into attention;
  - “an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom”; “a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book”; “salient traits”; “a spectacular rise in prices”; “a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center”; “a striking resemblance between parent and child”;

2. (adj.) salient;
  - (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees;

3. (adj.) salient;
  - represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward);

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Nouns
1. (n.) fabulist;
  - a person who tells or invents fables;

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Verbs
1. (verb) appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate;
  - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
  - “She managed to mollify the angry customer”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship;
  - the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability;

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Verbs
1. (verb) calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize;
  - cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;
  - “The patient must be sedated before the operation”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) sedate, staid;
  - characterized by dignity and propriety;

2. (adj.) grave, sedate, sober, solemn;
  - dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;
  - “a grave God-fearing man”; “a quiet sedate nature”; “as sober as a judge”; “a solemn promise”; “the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) obfuscate;
  - make obscure or unclear;

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