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See: cancel, compensate, counteract, countervail, equipoise, negate, neutralize, offset, oppose, outbalance, quid pro quo, setoff How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They exude a strong sense of self-worth, are comfortable with their ethnicity, and take seriously values that are generally counterpoised to those of competition and domination, which are prevalent in the public sphere and internalized by younger feminists. Nearly always counterpoised against her desires to have a home that reflects her financial security is the reality of Lutie's own meager apartment on 116th Street where deprivation rather then accumulation begins to constitute even her own vision of her home. Most particularly, he excepted those cases where national defense is counterpoised to commercial "opulence. |
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