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  • 51aspen — late 14c., from adjective or genitive form of O.E. æspe aspen tree, white poplar, from P.Gmc. *aspo (Cf. O.N. ösp, M.Du. espe, O.H.G. aspa, Ger. Espe), from PIE *apsa aspen (Cf. Lith. opuse). The current form in English probably arose from… …

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  • 52tremulous — [ trɛmjʊləs] adjective shaking or quivering slightly. ↘timid; nervous. Derivatives tremulously adverb tremulousness noun Origin C17: from L. tremulus (from tremere tremble ) + ous …

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  • 53tremor — n. Trembling, shaking, quaking, quivering, trepidation, agitation, tremulousness …

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  • 54trepidation — n. 1. Shaking, trembling, quaking, quivering, tremor, agitation, tremulousness. 2. State of terror, fear, agitation, excitement, dismay, perturbation, alarm, fright, terror, consternation …

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  • 55shake — vb 1 Shake, tremble, quake, totter, quiver, shiver, shudder, quaver, wobble, teeter, shimmy, dither are comparable when they mean to exhibit vibratory, wavering, or oscillating movement often as an evidence of instability. Shake, the ordinary and …

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  • 56baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …

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  • 57irresolution — n 1. infirmity, vacillation, indecision, indecisiveness, uncertainty, doubt, dubiety; hesitancy, hesitance, tergiversation, changeableness, irre soluteness, fickleness, wishy washiness; inconstancy, instability, variability, unsteadiness,… …

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  • 58nervousness — n excitability, excitableness, perturbability, nervosity; hypertension, tension, tenseness, strain; excitement, fluster, confusion, Inf. stew, Inf. dither, Inf. tizzy, Sl. flap; perturbation, agitation, upset, disquiet, distress, worry, trouble,… …

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  • 59resonance — n sonority, sonorousness, fullness, richness, deepness; loudness, thunderousness, plangency, amplification; reverberation, echoing, reechoing; vibration, tremulousness, Both Music. vibrator, tremolo; prolongation, sustenance, drawing out, holding …

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  • 60sonority — n sonorousness, fullness, richness, deepness; loudness, thunderousness, clamor, plangency, amplification; reverberation, resonance, echoing, reechoing; vibration, tremulousness, Both Music. vibrato, tremolo …

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