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Usage

• trepidation

  Trepidation is fear or uneasiness about something that is going to happen.

• affiliation

  If you have an affiliation with a group or another person, you are officially involved or connected with them.

• consternation

  Consternation is the feeling of anxiety or fear, sometimes paralyzing in its effect, and often caused by something unexpected that has happened.

• insinuation

  If someone makes an insinuation, they say something bad or unpleasant in a sly and indirect way.

• tribulation

  Severe problems, suffering, or difficulties experienced in a particular situation are all examples of tribulations.

• gradation

  A gradation is a series of successive small differences or changes in something that add up to an overall major change; this word can also refer to a degree or step in that series of changes.

• striation

  Striations are striped patterns or markings of parallel and narrow grooves.

• alliteration

  Alliteration is a device used in speech or writing in which several consecutive words all begin with the same sound or letter, the latter usually a consonant.

• aggravation

  When you feel aggravation over something, you are being constantly annoyed or bothered by it, often because it is getting worse over time.

• deprivation

  Deprivation is a state during which people lack something, especially adequate food and shelter; deprivation can also describe something being taken away from someone.

• gratification

  When you have a feeling of gratification, you experience satisfaction or pleasure about a job well done.

• moderation

  When you behave with moderation, you live in a balanced and measured way; you do nothing to excess.

• permutation

  A permutation is a complete change or total transformation.

• polarization

  Polarization between two groups is a division or separation caused by a difference in opinion or conflicting views.

• ramification

  A ramification from an action is a result or consequence of it—and is often unanticipated.

• resignation

  A feeling of resignation is one of accepting something that you really don't want to do.

• compilation

  A compilation is a gathering together of various things from many sources.

• duration

  The duration of something is the amount or period of time that it lasts.

• acculturation

  the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture

• culmination

  a final climactic stage

• desperation

  a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• inspiration

  arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

• reconciliation

  the reestablishing of cordial relations

• starvation

  a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period