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  • 71rudeness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. discourtesy, bad manners, vulgarity, incivility, impoliteness, impudence, disrespect, misbehavior, barbarity, unmannerliness, ill breeding, crudity, brutality, barbarism, tactlessness, boorishness, unbecoming conduct, lack… …

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  • 72intrusive — c.1400, from L. intrus , pp. stem of intrudere (see INTRUSION (Cf. intrusion)) + IVE (Cf. ive). Related: Intrusively; intrusiveness …

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  • 73abbreviations, contractions, acronyms —    Abbreviation is the general term used to describe any shortened word. Contractions and acronyms are types of abbreviation. A contraction is a word that has been squeezed in the middle, so to speak, but has retained one or more of its opening… …

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  • 74invasiveness — n. intrusiveness, obtrusiveness …

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  • 75meddlesomeness — medlsÉ™mnɪs n. intrusiveness, quality of interfering in other people s business …

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  • 76obtrusiveness — É™b truːsɪvnɪs n. quality of being obtrusive; intrusiveness, invasiveness …

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  • 77Railways —    Along with steamships, the telegraph, advances in military hardware, and improvements in tropical medicine, railways were critical vehicles for the advancement of European empires, both formal and informal. From their initial development in… …

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  • 78intrusive — adjective 1》 intruding or tending to intrude. 2》 Phonetics (of a sound) added between words or syllables to facilitate pronunciation, e.g. an r in saw a film. 3》 Geology relating to or formed by the intrusion of igneous rock. Derivatives… …

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  • 79impertinence — n.; (also impertinency) 1. Irrelevance, irrelevancy. 2. Rudeness, intrusiveness, impudence, insolence, incivility, sauciness, forwardness, boldness, presumption, effrontery, pertness, assurance, face, front, brass, brazen face. 3. Impertinent… …

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  • 80indelicacy — n. 1. Want of delicacy, lack of refined feeling, rudeness, intrusiveness, want of regard for the delicacy of others. 2. Indecorum, unseemliness, impropriety, offensiveness, coarseness, grossness, vulgarity. 3. Immodesty, indecency, lewdness,… …

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