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223 lines
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{
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"esoteric":{
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"difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand":{
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"examples":[
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"metaphysics is such an esoteric subject that most people are content to leave it to the philosophers"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"abstruse",
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"arcane",
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"deep",
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"hermetic",
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"hermetical",
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"profound",
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"recondite"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"erudite",
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"learned",
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"scholarly",
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"academic",
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"academical",
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"pedantic",
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"complex",
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"complicated",
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"hard",
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"darkling",
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"enigmatic",
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"enigmatical",
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"inscrutable",
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"mysterious",
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"mystic",
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"mystical",
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"orphic",
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"uncanny",
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"impenetrable",
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"incomprehensible",
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"unfathomable",
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"unintelligible",
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"ambiguous",
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"cryptic",
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"unanswerable",
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"unknowable",
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"baffling",
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"bewildering",
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"confounding",
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"confusing",
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"disorienting",
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"mystifying",
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"perplexing",
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"puzzling"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"easy",
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"facile",
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"simple",
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"straightforward",
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"comprehensible",
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"fathomable",
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"intelligible",
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"understandable",
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"apparent",
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"clear",
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"clear-cut",
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"distinct",
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"evident",
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"lucid",
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"manifest",
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"obvious",
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"perspicuous",
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"plain",
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"transparent"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"shallow",
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"superficial"
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]
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},
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"not known or meant to be known by the general populace":{
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"examples":[
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"must have had some esoteric motive for leaving his art collection to a museum halfway around the globe"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"behind-the-scenes",
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"confidential",
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"hush-hush",
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"hushed",
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"inside",
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"intimate",
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"nonpublic",
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"private",
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"privy",
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"secret"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"classified",
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"restricted",
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"top secret",
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"silent",
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"unadvertised",
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"unannounced",
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"undisclosed",
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"unmentioned",
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"unsaid",
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"untold",
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"clandestine",
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"closet",
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"collusive",
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"conspiratorial",
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"covert",
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"furtive",
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"hugger-mugger",
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"occult",
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"sneak",
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"sneaking",
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"sneaky",
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"stealthy",
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"surreptitious",
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"undercover",
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"underground",
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"underhand",
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"underhanded",
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"personal",
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"closeted",
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"concealed",
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"hidden",
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"repressed",
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"silenced",
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"stifled",
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"suppressed",
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"backstage",
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"offscreen",
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"offstage"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"well-known",
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"advertised",
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"aired",
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"announced",
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"blazed",
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"broadcast",
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"declared",
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"disclosed",
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"divulged",
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"enunciated",
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"heralded",
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"proclaimed",
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"professed",
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"promulgated",
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"publicized",
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"published",
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"reported",
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"spotlighted",
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"general",
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"popular",
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"prevailing",
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"vulgar",
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"current",
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"prevalent",
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"rife",
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"widespread",
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"communal",
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"shared"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"common",
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"open",
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"public"
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]
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},
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"esotericism":{
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"as in abstruseness , hermetism":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"abstruseness",
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"abstrusity",
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"hermetism",
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"reconditeness",
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"unknowability",
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"unanswerability",
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"inexplicability",
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"inexplicableness",
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"incomprehensibility",
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"unintelligibility",
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"unintelligibleness",
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"ambiguity",
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"equivocality",
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"equivocalness",
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"darkness",
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"murkiness",
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"shadowiness",
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"vagueness",
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"deepness",
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"profundity",
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"impenetrability",
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"inscrutability",
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"inscrutableness",
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"mysteriousness",
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"numinousness",
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"obscurity",
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"uncanniness"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
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"intelligibility",
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"understandability",
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"clarity",
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"obviousness",
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"plainness",
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"self-evidence",
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"straightforwardness",
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"transparency"
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],
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"antonyms":[]
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},
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |