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Nouns
1. (n.) pilgrim’s journey, pilgrimage;
  - a journey to a sacred place;

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Nouns
1. (n.) prestidigitation, sleight of hand;
  - manual dexterity in the execution of tricks;

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Nouns
1. (n.) secession, sezession;
  - an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s;

2. (n.) secession;
  - the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War;

3. (n.) secession, withdrawal;
  - formal separation from an alliance or federation;

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Nouns
1. (n.) deficiency, lack, want;
  - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
  - “there is a serious lack of insight into the problem”; “water is the critical deficiency in desert regions”; “for want of a nail the shoe was lost”;

2. (n.) deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency;
  - lack of an adequate quantity or number;
  - “the inadequacy of unemployment benefits”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) aggravation, irritation, provocation;
  - unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment;

2. (n.) incitation, incitement, provocation;
  - something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action;

3. (n.) incitement, provocation;
  - needed encouragement;
  - “the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious;
  - grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred;
  - “blasphemous rites of a witches’ Sabbath”; “profane utterances against the Church”; “it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) bugology, entomology;
  - the branch of zoology that studies insects;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy;
  - effusively or insincerely emotional;
  - “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence, question;
  - a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply;
  - “he asked a direct question”; “he had trouble phrasing his interrogations”;

2. (n.) interrogative, interrogative mood;
  - some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) interrogative;
  - relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood;
  - “not all questions have an interrogative construction”;

2. (adj.) interrogative, interrogatory;
  - relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation;

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Nouns
1. (n.) mythology;
  - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person;

2. (n.) mythology;
  - the study of myths;

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