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101dark — 1. adjective 1) a dark night Syn: black, pitch black, jet black, inky; unlit, unilluminated; starless, moonless; dingy, gloomy, dusky, shadowy, shady; literary Stygian Ant: bright …
102terrible — adjective 1) a terrible crime terrible injuries Syn: dreadful, awful, appalling, horrific, horrifying, horrible, horrendous, atrocious, abominable, deplorable, egregious, abhorrent, frightful, shocking, hideous …
103loathsome — adj 1. abhorrent, abominable, execrable, odious, heinous, anathematic, detestable, despicable, invidious, atrocious, hateful, Rare. loathful; dislikable, unlikable, insufferable, unendurable, unbearable, intolerable. 2. repulsive, repellent,… …
104rowdy — I n 1. ruffian, tough, Inf. toughie, thug, mugger, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Sl. yap, Inf. plugugly, Inf. goon, hooligan, Chiefly Brit. rough, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, Sl. bad actor, Sl. gunsel, Sl. mug, Australian Sl. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock,… …
105appalling — adjective 1) an appalling crime Syn: horrific, shocking, horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, outrageous 2) informal your schoolwork is appalling …
106terrible — adjective 1) a terrible crime Syn: dreadful, awful, appalling, horrific, horrible, horrendous, atrocious, monstrous, sickening, heinous, vile 2) he was in terrible pain Syn …
107atrocity — a•troc•i•ty [[t]əˈtrɒs ɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) the quality or state of being atrocious 2) an atrocious act, thing, or circumstance • Etymology: 1525–35; < L …
108atrocity — /əˈtrɒsəti / (say uh trosuhtee) noun (plural atrocities) 1. the quality of being atrocious. 2. an atrocious deed or thing. {Latin atrōcitas} …
109eye — [OE] In Old English times eye was ēage, which is related to a whole range of words for ‘eye’ in other European languages. Its immediate derivation is from prehistoric Germanic *augon, which was also the source of German auge, Dutch oog, Swedish… …
110ferocious — [17] Etymologically, ferocious means ‘wild eyed’. It comes from Latin ferox, which was originally a compound formed from ferus ‘fierce, wild’ (source of English feral [17]) and an element oc , ox meaning ‘looking, appearing’. This also appears in …
