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  2. Endurance - Wikipedia

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    Twins Tashi and Nungshi Malik on endurance trek at the foothills of the Himalayas. Endurance (also related to sufferance, forbearance, resilience, constitution, fortitude, persistence, tenacity, steadfastness, perseverance, stamina, and hardiness) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from ...

  3. Endure - Wikipedia

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    Endure may refer to: Endure (Assemblage 23 album) Endure (Special Interest album) "Endure", a song by Nonpoint from the album Statement This page was last edited on ...

  4. Gaman (term) - Wikipedia

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    Gaman (我慢) is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". [1] [2] The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or "tolerance". [3]

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a sharp explosive sound (noun and verb) pop music carbonated soft drink (U.S. usage is regional; also: soda, soda pop) (pop in) to arrive unexpectedly father (colloquial) (slang) to shoot; to kill, esp. with a gun (n.) a sudden increase (as in price) (orig. Stock exchange) * porter: doorman, gatekeeper, or building maintenance worker * bearer ...

  6. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).

  7. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

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    (noun) Something from which something else originates, develops, or takes form; [24] a mold or die; an electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records. [25] (noun in biology) The substance in which tissue cells are embedded. [26] (noun in math) The arrangement of a set of quantities in rows and columns. [27]

  8. Compassion - Wikipedia

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    The English noun compassion, meaning "to suffer together with", comes from Latin.Its prefix com-comes directly from com, an archaic version of the Latin preposition and affix cum (= with); the -passion segment is derived from passus, past participle of the deponent verb patior, patī, passus sum.

  9. Anastrophe - Wikipedia

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    that therein doth endure: For he hath fastly founded it above the seas to stand, And placed below the liquid floods, to flow beneath the land. However, some poets have a style that depends on heavy use of anastrophe. Gerard Manley Hopkins is particularly identified with the device, which renders his poetry susceptible to parody: