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Usage

• quiescence

  A state of quiescence is one of quiet and restful inaction.

• transience

  Something that has the quality of transience lasts for only a short time or is constantly changing.

• impudence

  If someone demonstrates impudence, they behave in a very rude or disrespectful way.

• deference

  If you behave with deference towards someone, you show them respect and accept their opinions or decisions, especially because they have an important position.

• abstinence

  Abstinence is the practice of keeping away from or avoiding something you enjoy—such as the physical pleasures of excessive food and drink—usually for health or religious reasons.

• cadence

  A cadence is a repeated pattern of movement or sound, such as the way someone's voice rises and falls when reading something out loud.

• credence

  Credence is the mental act of believing or accepting that something is true.

• confluence

  A confluence is a situation where two or more things meet or flow together at a single point or area; a confluence usually refers to two streams joining together.

• affluence

  Affluence is the state of having a lot of money and many possessions, granting one a high economic standard of living.

• resilience

  Something or someone that shows resilience is able to recover quickly and easily from unpleasant, difficult, and damaging situations or events.

• inference

  An inference is a logical conclusion drawn from available data using reason.

• pestilence

  A pestilence is either an infectious disease that is deadly or an agent of some kind that is destructive or dangerous.

• resurgence

  A resurgence is a rising again or comeback of something.

• subsistence

  Subsistence is the means someone has to support their existence, usually referring to food and shelter.

• evidence

  Pieces of evidence are those things or signs which back up or prove what someone says.

• sequence

  The sequence of something, such as an event or action, is the order in which it takes place.

• difference

  A difference in something is what makes it not like something else; it can also be a change that makes it not like it was before.

• experience

  Someone who has experience in something knows a great deal about it because they have been involved in it for so long.