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Our mistakes return to haunt us; also, nasty people have a way of reappearing.

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TAKE JOY IN ACING THIS QUIZ ON “PRIDE” SYNONYMS

Hold your head up high as you embark on this quiz that explores some of the synonyms and meanings of “pride.”

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We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
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In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
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They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
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Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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