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  • 21blame — I (culpability) noun accusal, accusation, blameworthiness, castigation, censurability, censurableness, censure, chargeability, condemnation, crimination, criticism, culpa, culpableness, damnation, decrial, delation, delinquency, denouncement,… …

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  • 22misdoing — I noun badness, blunder, bungle, crime, cruel act, culpability, delinquency, deviation from rectitude, dishonesty, disorderly conduct, dutilessness, error, evildoing, fault, foul play, guilty act, illegality, immorality, improbity, impropriety,… …

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  • 23wandering — n. 1. Roving, rambling, travelling, travel, peregrination, excursion, range, roaming. 2. Aberration, deviation from rectitude, mistaken way. 3. Aberration of mind, delirium, raving, rambling of the mind …

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  • 24United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 25aberration — aberrational, adj. /ab euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. 2. the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type. 3. deviation from truth or moral rectitude. 4. mental irregularity or… …

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  • 26Obliquities — Obliquity Ob*liq ui*ty, n.; pl. {Obliquities}. [L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquit[ e].] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the …

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  • 27Obliquity — Ob*liq ui*ty, n.; pl. {Obliquities}. [L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquit[ e].] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity …

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  • 28education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …

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  • 29Christian teaching about the Devil — For the Islamic devil, see Devil (Islam). See Satan for the Jewish view or see Devil for the devil in other religions, the term devil and the concept influenced by Christianity in general. See also Satan in literature and Satan in popular culture …

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  • 30aberration — ab•er•ra•tion [[t]ˌæb əˈreɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) deviation from the usual or normal course 2) deviation from the usual or normal type 3) deviation from truth or moral rectitude 4) psi mental unsoundness, esp. of a minor or temporary nature; mental… …

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