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::: ambience - environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature
::: carnage - destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals
::: paltry - insignificant; petty; trifling; contemptible; Ex. paltry sum; CF. trash
::: affiliation - joining; associating with
::: abstinence - restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote
::: prominent - protruding(sticking out); conspicuous; notable; eminent
::: invocation - prayer for help (used in invoking); calling upon as a reference or support; act of invoking
::: infamous - notoriously bad; notorious; well known for being bad; Ex. infamous behavior; N: infamy: infamous act; evil fame or reputation
::: reprehensible - deserving blame; blameworthy; V. reprehend: blame
::: jostle - shove; bump; push against (someone) rather roughly; Ex. jostled by the crowds