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  • 121strength — Synonyms and related words: ability, amount, amperage, ampleness, amplitude, aptitude, arm, armipotence, asset, authoritativeness, authority, backbone, beef, bite, bitingness, black power, body, boundlessness, brawn, brawniness, brute force, bulk …

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  • 122stubbornness — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, antipathy, application, assiduity, assiduousness, averseness, aversion, backwardness, balkiness, bigotry, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, cantankerousness, cohesiveness, concentration, consistency,… …

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  • 123tenacity — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, balkiness, bigotry, bottling up, bulldog courage, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, cling, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality …

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  • 124urgency — Synonyms and related words: antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, case of need, clutch, coaxing, compulsion, constraint, crisis, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, dominion,… …

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  • 125diligence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. application, industry, assiduity, activity; stagecoach (see vehicle). See attention. Ant., laziness, disregard. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. assiduity, industry, perseverance, persistence, application,… …

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  • 126obstinacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Refusal to comply Nouns 1. obstinacy, stubbornness, tenacity, doggedness; obduracy, obduration, insistence, resolution; intransigency, immovability, inflexibility, hardness, willpower; self will, will of …

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  • 127perversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. obstinacy, obduracy, perverseness, mulishness, cussedness (sl.); waywardness, unconformity; contumacy, wickedness. See irascibility. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being… …

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  • 128stubbornness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness,… …

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