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He suffers from back trouble too, so he was very sympathetic about my problem. She comes across as a more sympathetic character in the movie. The party is considered to be sympathetic to welfare reform. Did he give your proposal a sympathetic hearing?

I know what it's like to have migraines, so I really sympathize. I sympathize with the general aims of the organization, but on this particular issue I disagree.

The instructions completely bewildered me.

As he walked through the door, she stared at him in utter bewilderment

Her exclusion from the list of Oscar nominees. The exclusion of disruptive students from school. Trade between EU Member States is subject to various agreements, laws, and exclusions.

A formal US-EU trade agreement could be viewed as an exclusionary zone by Asians.

Women are still excluded from the club. The price excludes local taxes. We can't exclude the possibility that he is dead.

The aircraft carries 461 people excluding the crew and cabin staff.

This proposal will almost certainly spark another countrywide debate about immigration. The recent interest-rate rises have sparked new problems for small businesses.

That small incident was the spark that set off the street riots. They kept running into each other and eventually realized there was a spark between them. The music is mediocre because there's no spark, no thrill, no unpredictability.

The snow/sea sparkled in the sunlight. Alice is shy and quiet at parties, but her sister really sparkles!

Their latest performance of My Fair Lady really lacked sparkle. The sparkle went out of/left her (= she became unhappy) after her husband died. Do sth to add a sparkle to your life.

sparkling white teeth. a sparkling performance. sparkling conversation/wit. Champagne is a sparkling wine.

Why are you so resistant to change? a stain-resistant carpet. a disease-resistant variety of tomato.

There's a distinct smell of cigarettes in here. The two concepts are quite distinct. Plant growth is most distinct in spring and early summer.

There's a clear distinction between the dialects spoken in the two regions. This company makes no distinction between the sexes. a writer/wine of distinction.

a distinctive smell/taste. She's got a very distinctive voice.

The retailer lacks the distinctivenss to thrive in the current market. We are proud of our distinctiveness as Canadians.

Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.

The proliferation of cell phones has changed how we communicate.

This is a doomed city.

A sense of doom hung over the entire country. The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom (= bad news and unhappiness) these days.

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Mounting debts doomed the factory to closure.

If it's (of) any consolation (to you), you're not the only one he was nasty to. I didn't know what to say - I just offered a few words of consolation.

a consolatory remark. My friend came over and gave me a consolatory pat on the back.

He tried to console her, but she kept saying it was all her own fault. I tried to console her with a box of chocolates.

The dog had been struggling to get free of the wire noose. I've been struggling to understand this article all afternoon. He struggled along the rough road holding his son.