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  • 21Park, Nick — ▪ 2007  In 2006, at a time when animated film was dominated by computer generated images and fast talking celebrity voiced characters, two of its best loved stars had feet of clay: Wallace, a cheese loving inventor of madcap contraptions, and… …

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  • 22elasticity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Great flexibility Nouns 1. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, buoyancy, extensibility, ductility, stretch, rebound, adaptability. See vigor, expansion. 2. (elastic material) rubber, India… …

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  • 23flexibility — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Pliability] Syn. pliancy, plasticity, flexibleness, pliableness, suppleness, elasticity, flaccidity, extensibility, limberness, litheness. 2. [Tractability] Syn. compliance, affability, complaisance, versatility; see… …

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  • 24Willingness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Willingness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 willingness willingness voluntariness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 willing mind willing mind heart GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 disposition disposition inclination leaning …

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  • 25bendability — noun the property of being easily bent without breaking • Syn: ↑pliability • Derivationally related forms: ↑pliable (for: ↑pliability), ↑bendable • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 26Doughfaceism — Dough face ism, n. The character of a doughface; truckling pliability. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 27Flexibility — Flex i*bil i*ty, n. [L. flexibilitas: cf. F. flexibilite.] The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. [1913 …

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  • 28Rigidity — Ri*gid i*ty, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit[ e]. See {Rigid}.] 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; opposed to… …

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  • 29Whitleather — Whit leath er, n. [White + leather.] [1913 Webster] 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) The paxwax. See {Paxwax}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30pliable — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from plier to bend, fold more at ply Date: 14th century 1. a. supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking b. yielding readily to others ; complaisant 2. adjustable to varying …

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