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  2. Perseverance - Wikipedia

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    Perseverance, Queensland, a locality in Australia; Perseverance Island, Seychelles; Perseverance Mountain, Canada; De Volharding, Jislum (lit. ' The Perseverance '), a wind mill in the Netherlands; Perseverance Tavern, a pub in Cape Town, South Africa; The Perseverance, a pub in London, England; Perseverance School, a Christian institution in ...

  3. Perseveration - Wikipedia

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    Perseveration, in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and speech–language pathology, is the repetition of a particular response (such as a word, phrase, or gesture) regardless of the absence or cessation of a stimulus. It is usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder. [1]

  4. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Vīrya - Wikipedia

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    Within the Buddhist Abhidharma teachings, virya is identified as: One of the six occasional mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma; One of the eleven virtuous mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma

  8. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]

  9. Sabr - Wikipedia

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    Sabr (Arabic: صَبْرٌ, romanized: ṣabr) (literally 'endurance' or more accurately 'perseverance' and 'persistence' [1]) is one of the two parts of faith (the other being shukr) in Islam. [2] It teaches to remain spiritually steadfast and to keep doing good actions in the personal and collective domain, specifically when facing opposition ...