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Search phrase: sheer

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Richard II	R2 V.iii.60	Thou sheer immaculate and silver fountain	Thou sheere, immaculate, and siluer fountaine,
The Taming of the Shrew	TS induction.2.22	for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in	for sheere Ale, score me vp for the lyingst knaue in

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Glossary

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blind	sheer, utter, downright
perfect	complete, pure, sheer, utter
precipitation	sheer drop, steepness, precipitousness
pure	sheer, utter, total
sheer	pure, translucent, unadulterated
sheer	taken alone, unaccompanied by food
steep-down	precipitous, sheer

Thesaurus

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drop, sheer	precipitation
sheer	blind
sheer	perfect
sheer	pure
sheer	steep-down
sheer drop	precipitation

Themes and Topics

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Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
SHEER	BASIC	sheer adj

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