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attraction to, become more pleasing to: I didn't like her at<br />

first, but she grows on you. 6 grow up. mature, reach or attain<br />

maturity or adulthood, come of age, reach one's majority: Those<br />

who grew up in the Great Depression knew real poverty.<br />

growth n. 1 development, evolution, evolvement, cultivation,<br />

nurturing, increase, expansion, broadening, extension,<br />

enlargement, spread, proliferation, flowering: The growth of<br />

education was a slow and painful process. 2 vegetation, crop:<br />

The area is covered with a dense growth of timber. 3 advance,<br />

advancement, success, improvement, expansion, rise, progress:<br />

The growth of the economy has slowed down in the last quarter.<br />

4 wen, excrescence, wart, lump, tumour, swelling, intumescence:<br />

He developed an ugly growth on his nose.<br />

grudge n. 1 bitterness, resentment, rancour, ill will, hard feelings,<br />

spite, grievance, pique, dislike, aversion, antipathy, animus,<br />

animosity, enmity, venom, malice, malevolence, hatred: He had<br />

harboured a grudge against her ever since she was promoted.<br />

--v. 2 begrudge, resent, envy, mind, covet: She grudges other<br />

people their simple pleasures.<br />

gruesome adj. ghastly, repugnant, horrible, horrid, horrific,<br />

horrendous, grisly, hideous, revolting, repellent, repulsive,<br />

loathsome, grim, grotesque, macabre, abominable, frightful,<br />

frightening, fearsome, shocking, terrible, awful: She told a<br />

tale too gruesome to repeat here.<br />

gruff<br />

adj. 1 surly, crusty, grumpy, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, sour,<br />

peevish, churlish, rude, uncivil, bearish, testy, querulous,<br />

irritable, cross, petulant, crabbed, irascible, sullen, sulky,<br />

bluff, abrupt, curt, blunt, brusque, short, short-tempered,<br />

ill-humoured, ill-natured, bad-tempered, stinging, cutting,<br />

biting, acerb, acrimonious, acid, caustic, Colloq grouchy,<br />

crotchety: It is difficult to work for someone as gruff as he<br />

is. 2 throaty, deep, rough, guttural, rasping, low, husky,<br />

hoarse, harsh(-sounding): Instantly I recognized father's gruff<br />

voice on the telephone.<br />

7.9 guarantee<br />

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