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21Misery — Mi ser*y, n.; pl. {Miseries}. [OE. miserie, L. miseria, fr. miser wretched: cf. F. mis[ e]re, OF. also, miserie.] [1913 Webster] 1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Destruction… …
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24John Phillips (surveyor) — John Phillips was a British engineer and surveyor in the first half of the nineteenth century. His work and reports led to the building of London s sewage system.London in the 1840 sBy the 1840s, London’s population numbered over two million,… …
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26Asturias, Miguel Ángel — Asturias, Miguel Ángel. 1899 1974. Guatemalan writer whose El Señor Presidente (1946) is often considered his greatest novel. He won the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. * * * born Oct. 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guat. died June 9, 1974, Madrid,… …
27anguish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. agony, anxiety, pain. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wretchedness, pain, agony, distress; see distress 1 , pain 1 . See Synonym Study at distress . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. distress, suffering,… …
28distress — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. discomfort, pain; trouble, affliction, trial, privation, harassment, grief, anxiety; calamity, adversity. See poverty, difficulty. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Mental agony] Syn. worry, anxiety, perplexity …
29affliction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care,… …
30misery — n. 1. Distress, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, desolation, sorrow, grief, affliction, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, great unhappiness, suffering, anguish, torment. 2. Distress, suffering, wretchedness, agony, torture,… …
