resistance
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resistance |
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Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen,
antipathy, arrest, arrestation,
arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion, avoidance mechanism, avoidance reaction, backlash, backwardness,
base resistance, blame-shifting, block, blockage, blocking, bucking, bushfighter, bushwhacker, callosity, callousness,
capacitive reactance, casual, censorship, challenge, check, clashing, clogging, closing up, closure, coefficient of friction, cohesiveness, collision, compensation, conflict, confutation, congenital immunity, constriction, contention, contradiction, contraposition,
contrariety, contravention, contraversion, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, cramp, crankiness,
crosscurrent, crossing, crotchetiness, cursoriness, decompensation, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, defiance, delay, denial, density, dereism,
dereistic thinking, detainment, detention, deterrent capacity, disagreement, disinclination,
disobedience, displacement, disrelish, dissent, dissociation, distaste, drag, durability,
durity, ego defenses, electric resistance, emitter
resistance, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy,
escape mechanism, escapism, familial immunity, fantasizing, fantasy, fixation, flight, flintiness, fluid friction, foot-dragging, force of friction, force of viscosity, forward
transfer resistance, fractiousness, friction, friction head,
friction loss, frictional resistance, grudging consent, grudgingness, guard, guerillas, guerrilla, hampering, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, head wind,
hindering, hindrance, holdback,
holdup, immunity, immunization, impedance, impediment, impenetrability, impugnation, impugnment, incorrigibility,
indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inductive reactance, induration, infrangibility, inherent immunity, inherited immunity,
inhibition, input resistance, insuppressibility, interference, internal friction, interruption,
intractability, intractableness, intransigence, irregular, irrepressibility, isolation, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of
zeal, lastingness, leatherlikeness, let, magnetic reluctance, maquis, maquisard, mutinousness,
natural immunity, negation, negative taxis, negativism, nolition, nonconformity,
nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, nuisance value,
obduracy, obstinacy, obstreperousness, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion,
ohm, ohmage, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy,
oppugnation, opsonic immunity, output resistance, overcompensation, partisan, passive immunity, perfunctoriness, perverseness, phagocytic immunity, projection, protection, psychological block,
psychological defenses, psychotaxis, racial immunity, rationalization, reactance, reaction, rebelliousness, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, reluctivity, renitence, renitency, repercussion, repression, repugnance, resistance fighter, restiveness, restraint, restriction, retardation,
retardment, revolt, rolling friction, ropiness, self-defense, self-preservation,
self-protection, setback, shrewishness, skin effect, skin friction, sliding friction, slip friction, slowness, sociological adjustive reactions, solidity, specific immunity, specific reluctance, squeeze, stamina, standing against, starting
friction, static friction, steeliness, stiffness,
stoniness, stranglehold, strength,
stricture, stringiness, stubbornness, sublimation, substitution, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness,
suppression, surface resistance, swimming upstream,
tenacity, the defensive, toughness,
toxin-antitoxin immunity, traversal, unbreakability, unbreakableness, uncontrollability, undercurrent, underground, underground fighter, unenthusiasm, ungovernability,
unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness,
unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, viscidity, vitality, volume resistance, ward, wildness, wish-fulfillment fantasy,
wishful thinking, withdrawal
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passive resistance |
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Quakerism, a wise passiveness, acquiescence,
amenability, challenge, civil disobedience, combative reaction, complaint, compliance,
contemplation, contemplative life, counteraction, defiance, demur, disobedience, dispute, dissent, dissentience, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism,
do-nothingness, dormancy, fractiousness, frowardness, humbleness, humility, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indiscipline, indocility,
indolence, inertia, inertness,
infraction, infringement, insubordination, intractability, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lawbreaking, lawlessness, meditation, meekness,
naughtiness, negativism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noncompliance,
nonconformity, noncooperation, noninvolvement, nonobedience, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obedience, objection, obstinacy, opposition, pacifism, paralysis, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, procrastination, protest, quiescence,
quietism, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recusancy, refractoriness, reluctance,
remonstrance, renitence, renitency,
repellence, repellency, repulse, repulsion, resignation, resistance, revolt, stagnancy, stagnation,
stand, standpattism, stasis,
submission, submissiveness, transgression, uncomplainingness, uncooperativeness, unduteousness,
undutifulness, unsubmissiveness, vegetation, violation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting, waywardness, willful disobedience, withstanding
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piece de resistance |
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boil, broil, casserole,
champion, choice, chosen, course, cover, cream, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, dish, elect, elite, entree, fat, flower, fry, grill, main dish, masterpiece, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimum, paragon, pick, prime, prize,
queen, quintessence, roast, select, side dish, superlative, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best
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Main entries similar to: resistance
alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy,
arrest, autism, aversion, backlash, block, blockade, bushwhacker, callousness, casual, censorship, challenge, Charley, check, closure, collision, compensation, complaint, conflict, constriction, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, cramp, crosscurrent, crossing, defense mechanism, defiance, delay, demur, denial, density,
dereism, detention, disagreement, disinclination, disobedience,
displacement, dispute, dissent, dissociation, distaste, drag, durability, escape, escapism, fantasy, fixation, flight, foot-dragging, friction, guard, guerrilla, hampering, hardiness, hardness, head wind, holdback, holdup, immunity, immunization, impedance, impediment, indisposition, indocility, inhibition, interference,
interruption, intractability, irregular, isolation, kick,
let, negation, negativism, nonconformity, nuisance value,
objection, obstinacy, obstruction, occlusion, opposing, opposition, overcompensation, partisan, passive resistance, projection,
protection, protest, psychological block, rationalization, reaction,
rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recoil, refusal, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, renitency, repercussion, repression, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, restraint, restriction, retardation, revolt, self-defense, self-preservation, self-protection, setback, slowness, solidity, squeeze, stamina, stand, stiffness, stranglehold, strength, stricture, stubbornness, sublimation, substitution,
sulks, suppression, tenacity, tolerance, toughness, undercurrent, underground, unmanageability, unruliness, vitality, ward, wish fulfillment, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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