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  • 111shoegaze — v. To play an instrument (especially a guitar) with one s head down, as though gazing at one s shoes. Example Citation: Whirlaway held its official CD release party at Shakespeare s after returning from the tour. Before taking the stage under a… …

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  • 112Vita nuova — (New life)    by Dante Alighieri (1295)    The Vita nuova is a collection of 31 of DANTE’s earlier lyric poems, introduced, connected, and explained by 41 prose passages that narrate the story of his love for the woman he called Beatrice… …

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  • 113clockwise — Synonyms and related words: anticlockwise, around, conservative, counterclockwise, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, earthward, head over heels,… …

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  • 114counterclockwise — Synonyms and related words: a rebours, a reculons, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, around, ass backwards, astern, away, back, backward, backwards, clockwise, earthward, fro, head over heels, heavenward, heels over head, hindward,… …

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  • 115homeward — Synonyms and related words: anticlockwise, approaching, arriving, clockwise, coming, counterclockwise, earthward, entering, heavenward, homeward bound, inbound, incoming, inward bound, landward, leeward, leftward, rightward, seaward, widdershins …

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  • 116leeward — Synonyms and related words: alee, anticlockwise, aweather, clockwise, counterclockwise, downwind, earthward, flanking, glancing, heavenward, homeward, landward, lateral, lee, lee sheet, lee shore, lee side, lee tack, leftward, next beside,… …

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  • 117leftward — Synonyms and related words: anticlockwise, aport, clockwise, counterclockwise, earthward, heavenward, homeward, landward, larboard, leeward, left, leftwardly, leftwards, on the left, port, rightward, seaward, sinister, sinistrad, sinistrally, to… …

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  • 118rightward — Synonyms and related words: anticlockwise, astarboard, clockwise, counterclockwise, dexter, dextrad, dextrally, earthward, heavenward, homeward, landward, leeward, leftward, on the right, right, rightwardly, rightwards, seaward, starboard, to the …

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  • 119seaward — Synonyms and related words: anticlockwise, clockwise, counterclockwise, earthward, heavenward, homeward, in blue water, landward, leeward, leftward, oceanward, oceanwards, off, off soundings, offshore, out of soundings, rightward, seawards,… …

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  • 120skyward — Synonyms and related words: above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, heavenward, high, high up, in the air, in the clouds, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, straight up, tiptoe, to the zenith, up, up attic, up north,… …

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