| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
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| Antonyms: | inaction |
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| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
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"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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| Concept: | Excitation. |
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the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins; the eye glistening, "in a fine frenzy
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