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noun phraseA group used as a standard for evaluating one's own attitudes, abilities, or circumstances.
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Clear all filtersA group used as a standard for evaluating one's own attitudes, abilities, or circumstances.
Approval expressed openly by a group, often through a voice vote.
A collection or combination of separate things into a group or total.
Gathering or combined group
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Unreasonably intolerant of people or opinions outside one's own group or beliefs.
Done by or relating to people acting as a group.
A person or group joined with another for a shared purpose.
General agreement within a group.
Someone who leaves a group, cause, or country to join another, often opposing, side.
A failure to maintain allegiance or support owed to a person, group, or cause.
Failure of allegiance
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Disagreement that produces division within a group.
Concerned with allocating or sharing things among members of a group.
Regularly present or characteristic within a particular place or group.
A group of companions, assistants, or attendants surrounding a person.
Understood by or intended for a small group with specialized knowledge.
A smaller group within a larger one that pursues its own aims or position.
Someone who stays near a person or group mainly to obtain personal benefit.
The confidence, enthusiasm, and sense of purpose of a person or group.
Strongly favoring a particular side, group, or cause.
Spread widely throughout an area, group, or situation.
Someone who abandons a group, cause, or accepted allegiance.
A principle or belief held by a group or within a system of thought.
Shared by everyone in a group.
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