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ague

a fever with successive stages of fever and chills esp when caused by malaria
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That year, Johansen cracked his cellphone screen and felt the same aguish many do when he realized he would have to drop it off at a nondescript repair shop for a few hours.
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This call for a communal response to rural poverty and ignorance is repeated in the quintain "Janet Fisher." Setting suggests the ill health and spiritual vacuity of those living in the "barren, aguish swamp," which is described in shades of gray livened only by "tufts of purple" under a sky overhead that is "utterly barren too" (35).
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Tension between Emily and the various members of her childhood family is something we can believe as is the interplay between Emily and the various players she meets following her leaving the farm and the anguish, anguish and aguish experienced there.
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Similarly, her aguish against the municipal authorities stems from the fact that the BJP is in majority in the house of councillors.
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The walks, which nature seems to have intended for solitude, shade, and silence, are filled with crowds of noisy people, sucking up the nocturnal rheums of an aguish climate.
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