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Nouns
1. (n.) millenary, millennium;
  - a span of 1000 years;

2. (n.) millennium;
  - (New Testament) in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness;

3. (n.) millenary, millennium;
  - the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it);

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Verbs
1. (verb) bruise, contuse;
  - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of;
  - “I bruised my knee”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) disagreement, dissension, dissonance;
  - a conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters;

2. (n.) dissonance, noise, racket;
  - the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
  - “modern music is just noise to me”;

3. (n.) dissonance;
  - disagreeable sounds;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) voluble;
  - marked by a ready flow of speech;
  - “she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize;
  - cause to take on a definite and clear shape;
  - “He tried to crystallize his thoughts”;

2. (verb) clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out;
  - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;
  - “Could you clarify these remarks?”; “Clear up the question of who is at fault”;

3. (verb) crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize;
  - cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form;
  - “crystallize minerals”;

4. (verb) crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, effloresce;
  - assume crystalline form; become crystallized;

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Adverbs
1. (adv.) but, just, merely, only, simply;
  - and nothing more;
  - “I was merely asking”; “it is simply a matter of time”; “just a scratch”; “he was only a child”; “hopes that last but a moment”;

2. (adv.) just, simply;
  - absolutely;
  - “I just can’t take it anymore”; “he was just grand as Romeo”; “it’s simply beautiful!”;

3. (adv.) simply;
  - absolutely; altogether; really;
  - “we are simply broke”;

4. (adv.) plainly, simply;
  - in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment;
  - “she was dressed plainly”; “they lived very simply”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) incontrovertible, irrefutable, positive;
  - impossible to deny or disprove;
  - “incontrovertible proof of the defendant’s innocence”; “proof positive”; “an irrefutable argument”;

2. (adj.) demonstrable, incontrovertible;
  - necessarily or demonstrably true;
  - “demonstrable truths”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) fearful, timorous, trepid;
  - timid by nature or revealing timidity;
  - “timorous little mouse”; “in a timorous tone”; “cast fearful glances at the large dog”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) incomprehensible, inexplicable;
  - incapable of being explained or accounted for;
  - “inexplicable errors”; “left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial;
  - (informal) small and of little importance;
  - “a fiddling sum of money”; “a footling gesture”; “our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war”; “a little (or small) matter”; “a dispute over niggling details”; “limited to petty enterprises”; “piffling efforts”; “giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction”;

2. (adj.) superficial, trivial;
  - of little substance or significance;
  - “a few superficial editorial changes”; “only trivial objections”;

3. (adj.) trivial;
  - concerned with trivialities;
  - “a trivial young woman”; “a trivial mind”;

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