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Nouns
1. (n.) plight, predicament, quandary;
  - a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;
  - “finds himself in a most awkward predicament”; “the woeful plight of homeless people”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise;
  - a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence;

Verbs
1. (verb) surmise;
  - infer from incomplete evidence;

2. (verb) surmise, suspect;
  - imagine to be the case or true or probable;
  - “I suspect he is a fugitive”; “I surmised that the butler did it”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) authorities, government, regime;
  - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit;
  - “the government reduced taxes”; “the matter was referred to higher authorities”;

2. (n.) regime, regimen;
  - (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet);

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Nouns
1. (n.) humdrum, monotony, sameness;
  - the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety;
  - “he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work”; “he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners”; “he hated the sameness of the food the college served”;

2. (n.) monotony;
  - constancy of tone or pitch or inflection;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) complaisant, obliging;
  - showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others;
  - “to close one’s eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover”; “the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness;
  - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception;

2. (n.) craftiness, deceitfulness, guile;
  - the quality of being crafty;

3. (n.) chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile;
  - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them);

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Nouns
1. (n.) linguistics;
  - the scientific study of language;

2. (n.) linguistics, philology;
  - the humanistic study of language and literature;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed;
  - with little or no preparation or forethought;
  - “his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment”; “an extemporaneous piano recital”; “an extemporary lecture”; “an extempore skit”; “an impromptu speech”; “offhand excuses”; “trying to sound offhanded and reassuring”; “an off-the-cuff toast”; “a few unrehearsed comments”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) kerchief;
  - a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck;

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Nouns
1. (n.) aggregate, sum, total, totality;
  - the whole amount;

2. (n.) aggregate;
  - material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster;

3. (n.) aggregate, congeries, conglomeration;
  - a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together;

Verbs
1. (verb) aggregate;
  - amount in the aggregate to;

2. (verb) aggregate, combine;
  - gather in a mass, sum, or whole;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass;
  - formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole;
  - “aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year”; “the aggregated amount of indebtedness”;

2. (adj.) aggregate;
  - composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets;
  - “raspberries are aggregate fruits”;

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