| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something taken to be true without proof: postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, supposition, theory, thesis. See REASON. 2. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal : brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. 3. The act of taking something for oneself: appropriation, arrogation, preemption, seizure, usurpation. See GIVE.
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