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  • 21retiring — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. modest, unassuming, self effacing, bashful, withdrawn, shy, diffident. See modesty, humility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. shy, quiet, self effacing; see humble 1 , modest 2 , reserved 3 . III (Roget …

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  • 22Ion Creangă — Creangă redirects here. For other uses, see Creangă (surname). Ion Creangă Nică al lui Ştefan a Petrei Ion Torcălău Ioan Ştefănescu Born 1837 or 1839 Târgu Neamţ Died …

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  • 23Dave Goelz — Dave Goelz, March 2009 Born July 16, 1946 (1946 07 16) (age 65) Burbank, California Occupation …

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  • 24Bill Brown (cricketer) — Infobox cricketer biography playername = Bill Brown female = country = Australia fullname = William Alfred Brown nickname = living = partialdates = dayofbirth = 31 monthofbirth = 7 yearofbirth = 1912 placeofbirth = Toowoomba countryofbirth =… …

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  • 25Intimin — is a virulence factor (adhesin) of EPEC ( e.g. E. coli ) and EHEC ( e.g. E. coli ) E. coli strains. It is an attaching and effacing (A/E) protein which with other virulence factors is responsible for enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic… …

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  • 26Ola Raknes — Born 17 January 1887(1887 01 17) Bergen, Norway Died 28 January 1975(1975 01 28) …

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  • 27demure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sedate, staid; modest, diffident, prim, coy. See inexcitability, modesty. Ant., brazen, impudent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. shy, prim, coy, bashful; see humble 1 , prudish , shy . See Synonym… …

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  • 28humble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lowly, unassuming, modest (see humility); poor, obscure, paltry, mean. v. t. abase, shame, humiliate. See modesty, obscurity, piety. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Meek] Syn. lowly, submissive, gentle,… …

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  • 29shy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bashful, reserved, retiring, demure; cautious, suspicious, wary; timid, skittish, fearful; short, lacking. See modesty, fear, incompleteness. Ant., forward, brash, incautious. v. start, recoil. See… …

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  • 30modest — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Humble] Syn. unassuming, meek, diffident, shy; see humble 1 , resigned . 2. [Not showy] Syn. unpretentious, unostentatious, unobtrusive, demure, quiet, seemly, proper, decorous, unstudied, plain, simple, natural,… …

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