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cogency collapse: the quality of being logically valid; persuasive relevance

energy collapse: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"; enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy"; forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip"; (physics) the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms"; a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

secret police collapse: a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)

impel collapse: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

obsession collapse: an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

muscle collapse: authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign"; animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells; one of the contractile organs of the body; make one's way by force; "He muscled his way into the office"

nonpartisan collapse: a person who is nonpartisan; free from party affiliation or bias

charisma collapse: a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others

clout collapse: a target used in archery; strike hard, especially with the fist; "He clouted his attacker"

Interpol collapse: an international intelligence agency permitting collaboration among intelligence agencies around the world

potency collapse: capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks"; the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

fixation collapse: (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body; the activity of fastening something firmly in position

shove collapse: the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"; push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"

legion collapse: a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion"; association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion"

administer collapse: give or apply (medications); administer ritually; of church sacraments; work in an administrative capacity; supervise; "administer a program"

extort collapse: get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner; obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"; obtain through intimidation

Niagara collapse: a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls

universal collapse: a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings; "some form of religion seems to be a human universal"; (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class; (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages; adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations; "universal wrench", "universal chuck"; "universal screwdriver"; applicable to or common to all members of a group or set; "the play opened to universal acclaim"; "rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"

instrumentality collapse: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end; the quality of being instrumental for some purpose; a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement"

virulence collapse: extreme hostility; "the virulence of the malicious old man"; extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); "the virulence of the plague"

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

neuter collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine); of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"; having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

in practice collapse: in practical applications; "will this work in practice?"

tamp collapse: a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

placation collapse: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity

operating collapse: involved in a kind of operation; "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

freewheeling collapse: free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"

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