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  • 101prejudicial — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unjust, unfavorable, biased; see prejudiced . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. encouraging preconceptions, damaging, misleading, delusive, misguiding, presumed, biased, predetermined. ANT.: unbiased III (Roget s… …

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  • 102prepossessed — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. biased, predisposed, inclined; see prejudiced . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Exhibiting bias: biased, one sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prejudicial, tendentious. See LIKE, STRAIGHT …

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  • 103racist — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. bigoted, prejudiced, white supremacist, black supremacist, antiblack, antiwhite, racialist, discriminatory; see also prejudiced . n. Syn. bigot, white supremacist, racialist; see bigot . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n …

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  • 104Misjudgment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Misjudgment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 misjudgment misjudgment obliquity of judgment Sgm: N 1 miscalculation miscalculation miscomputation misconception &c.(error) 495 Sgm: N 1 hasty conclusion hasty conclusion… …

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  • 105Obstinacy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Obstinacy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 obstinateness obstinateness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 obstinacy obstinacy tenacity Sgm: N 1 cussedness cussedness =>(U.S.) Sgm: N 1 perseverance perseverance &c. 604a …

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  • 106prejudice — 01. There is a lot of [prejudice] against women in the workplace, which can keep them from rising to high positions in some companies. 02. The defendant s lawyer was afraid that widespread newspaper coverage of the murder would be [prejudicial]… …

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  • 107Afro-Caribbean communities —    In the early period of postwar reconstruction, when Britain like all European countries was desperate for labour, there were too many jobs and too few workers. This gave rise to the Nationality Act of 1948, which granted United Kingdom… …

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  • 108prejudice — 1 noun 1 (C, U) an unreasonable dislike and distrust of people who are different from you in some way, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc: Women still have to face a great deal of prejudice in the workplace. (+ against):… …

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  • 109prepossessed — adj biased, warped, slanted, predisposed, partial, prejudiced. See prejudiced{def. 1) …

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  • 110mean — I UK [miːn] / US [mɪn] verb [transitive] Word forms mean : present tense I/you/we/they mean he/she/it means present participle meaning past tense meant UK [ment] / US past participle meant *** Get it right: mean: When you want to say what… …

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