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rural, rustic, pastoral.
These adjectives all mean of or typical of the country as distinguished from
the city.
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, melancholy, sorrowful, doleful, woebegone, desolate.
These adjectives all mean affected with or marked by unhappiness, as that
caused by affliction.
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sarcastic, ironic, caustic, satirical, sardonic.
These adjectives mean having or marked by a feeling of bitterness and a biting
or cutting quality.
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save, rescue, reclaim, redeem, deliver.
These verbs are compared in the sense of freeing a person or thing from
danger, evil, confinement, or servitude.
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saying, maxim, adage, saw, motto, epigram, proverb, aphorism.
These nouns refer to concise verbal expressions setting forth wisdom or a
truth.
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scatter, disperse, dissipate, dispel.
These verbs are compared as they mean to cause a mass or an aggregate to
separate and go in different directions.
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scream, shriek, screech.
These verbs mean to make or give voice to a loud, piercing sound.
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secret, stealthy, clandestine, furtive, surreptitious, underhand.
These adjectives apply to what is purposely concealed from view or knowledge.
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see, behold, note, notice, observe, contemplate, survey, view, perceive, discern, remark.
These verbs refer to being or becoming visually or mentally aware of something.
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sensuous, sensual, luxurious, epicurean.
These adjectives mean of, given to, or furnishing satisfaction of the senses.
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separate, divide, part, sever, sunder, divorce.
These verbs are compared as they mean to become or cause to become parted,
disconnected, or disunited.
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series, succession, progression, sequence, chain, train, string.
These nouns denote a number of things placed or occurring one after the other.
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