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  • 71upset — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. overthrow, overturn, capsize; disturb, bother, discompose, disconcert; spoil; perturb; disarrange, unbalance; demoralize. n. reversal, overturn, disorder. See destruction, inversion, change,… …

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  • 72Derangement — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Subversion of Order PARAG:Derangement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 derangement derangement &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 disorder disorder &c. 59 Sgm: N 1 evection evection discomposure disturbance Sgm: N 1 disorganization… …

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  • 73Destruction — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Nonproduction. < N PARAG:Destruction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{ant,161,} destruction Sgm: N 1 waste waste dissolution breaking up Sgm: N 1 diruption diruption disruption Sgm: N 1 consumption …

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  • 74Deterioration — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deterioration >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deterioration deterioration debasement Sgm: N 1 wane wane ebb Sgm: N 1 recession recession &c. 287 Sgm: N 1 retrogradation retrogradation &c. 283 …

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  • 75Redfield, Robert — (1897 1958) An American anthropologist who, in 1930, published a study (Tepoztlan: Life in a Mexican Village) which outlines an idealtypical construct of folk society . Subsequently he suggested that the spread of urban based civilization… …

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  • 76confusion — 1 Confusion, disorder, chaos, disarray, jumble, clutter, snarl, muddle are comparable when they mean the state or a condition in which things are not in their right places or arranged in their right relations to each other, or an instance of such …

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  • 77disorder — [n1] chaos, clutter anarchy, ataxia, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, disorderliness, disorganization, huddle, irregularity, jumble, mess, muddle, rat’s nest*, shambles, snarl, topsyturviness*, untidiness;… …

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  • 78disarrangement — noun a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted • Syn: ↑disorganization, ↑disorganisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑disarrange, ↑disorganise (for: ↑disorganisation), ↑ …

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  • 79dis|or|gan|i|za|tion — «dihs R guh nuh ZAY shuhn», noun. 1. the act of disorganizing; breaking up of order or system: »the disorganization of a government or an army. 2. absence of organization or orderly arrangement; the condition of being disorganized; disorganized… …

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  • 80Contusion — Con*tu sion, n. [L. contusio: cf. F. contusion.] 1. The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the… …

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