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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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