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4. discriminate between, distinguish between, make a distinction between, see the difference between; dichotomize, categorize, classify, group.
several, adj. 1. some, a few, a sprinkling of, a handful of, a fistful of, a mouthful of, a pocketful of; not a few, a number of, Inf. quite a few.
2. separate, distinct, discrete; single, sole, lone, solitary; different, divergent, diverging, disparate, dissimilar, assorted, various, sundry.
3. respective, own, exclusive, personal, private; individual, particular, specific, certain, chosen; unique, special, characteristic, typical, customary, peculiar.
-n. 4. some, a few, a sprinkling, a handful, a fistful, a mouthful, a pocketful; more than a couple, Inf. quite a few, a number.
severance, n. 1. sunderance, chopping or cutting off, slicing or shearing off, bobbing, docking, lopping off, detachment, Both Bot. abstriction, abjunction; cleavage, cleaving, splitting, fissure, scission; division, halving, bisection, bifidity, bifurcation, Obs. dimidia-tion, Bot. mitosis; separation, dissection, dismemberment, divulsion; partition, partitionment, segmentation, dichotomy.
2. breach, breaking up, break, split, schism, divorce, disunion, disassociation, disjuncture, Inf. split in the ranks; divergence, divarication, alienation, estrangement, Inf. parting of the ways; dissolution, abscission, breaking off, suspension, discontinuance, termination, stoppage, ending, cease; disengagement, pulling out, leaving, quitting.
severe, adj. 1. extreme, stringent, strict, harsh, rough; inflexible, uncompromising, unbending, unyielding, obdurate, flinty, rigid; persistent, unremitting, inexorable, implacable, relentless; merciless, pitiless, unfeeling, unsympathetic, inhuman, cruel, brutal, savage; ruthless, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, ironhanded, iron-fisted, iron-hearted; despotic, peremptory; autocratic, tyrannical, abusive, punitive; distressing, agonizing, afflictive, torturous, tormenting, excruciating, racking; painful, insufferable, unbearable, overpowering, overwhelming; stinging, galling, sharp, bitter, caustic; piercing, biting, cutting, incisive, penetrating.
2. serious, sober, sedate, somber, grave; formal, aloof, cold, distant, stiff, tight, stilted; stern, grim, austere, hard, forbidding, strait-laced, puritanical.
3. grave, critical, acute, dire, fatal, mortal; dreadful, fearful, awful, dangerous, risky, hazardous, perilous, Inf. hairy; uncertain, touchy, touch-and-go, Inf. chancy.
4. simple, plain, modest, bare, blank, stark, Spartan, ascetic; unadorned, untrimmed, unembroidered, unembellished, unornamental, undecked; unfurbished, undecorated, unvarnished, unpainted.
5. inclement, stormy, raging, tempestuous, turbulent; freezing, frigid, frozen; hot, steaming, burning, sweltering; drastic, acute, intense, violent, fierce, furious.
6. exacting, rigorous, tough, demanding, exigent, fastidious, Rare, exactive; unsparing, grinding, oppressive, burdensome, grievous, onerous, heavy; difficult, painstaking, close, searching; arduous, laborious, toilsome, operose; trying, troublesome, uphill.
severity, n. 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness; pitilessness, mercilessness, unfeelingness, inhumanity, cruelty, savagery; acrimony, acrimoniousness, acerbity, keenness; ruth-
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