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exhaustion—Miss Ludington's Sister;<br />

• lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent,( ; );<br />

pine = yearn = yen = languish : longing = nostalgia<br />

• (pine)- languish, decline, long for, yearn, (<br />

, ); His wife, who had always been<br />

more devoted to her children than her husband, pined, and died also. — Paul<br />

Faber, Surgeon;<br />

• (yearn)- to have an earnest or strong desire; long, (<br />

; ); The fighting spirit in<br />

him yearned, and in a moment his victim was caught up in a crushing<br />

embrace. — The Man in the Twilight;<br />

• (yen)- a yearning for something or to do something;<br />

• (longing)- prolonged unfulfilled desire or need;<br />

• (nostalgia)- longing for something past;<br />

pine^ repine = grouse = complain complaint = yielding<br />

• (repine)- to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain, ( ;<br />

); "Don't repine -- nerve yourself with resolution, and all will be well!"—<br />

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith;<br />

• (grouse)- to grumble; complain, ( ; );<br />

My only grouse was the slightly under-portioned serving of beef compared to<br />

the rice;<br />

• any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae, (<br />

);<br />

• (complaint)- an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure,<br />

resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding, ( ; );<br />

Your complaint is against fate and humanity rather than against the poet<br />

Tennyson. — The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning;<br />

• (yield)- to give up or surrender, ( ;<br />

); Some of Roosevelt's critics construed his yielding, at the last moment,<br />

as evidence of his being ruled by Platt after all. — Theodore Roosevelt An<br />

Intimate Biography;<br />

• to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation,<br />

( ); This crop ranges from 25 to<br />

65 bushels per acre, and the difference in the yield is to be attributed to the<br />

manner of cultivation;<br />

redemption = salvation > salvage = relieve<br />

• (redemption)- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or

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