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Things sham often describes ("sham ________")
- operation
- animals
- acupuncture
- attack
- marriage
- duel
- stimulation
- procedures
- sale
- jewellery
- trials
- injection
- democracy
- parliament
- ruin
- ones
- elections
- rage
- election
- drinking
- letters
- patriotism
- negotiations
- philosophy
- operations
- emotions
- sentiment
- marriages
- treatment
- control
- fighting
- orbitals
- piety
- fight
- controls
- aristocracy
- ceremony
- war
- constitution
- funeral
- windows
- socialism
- group
- affair
- plea
- science
- miracles
- death
- morality
- jewels
- love
- emotion
- surgery
- exposure
- treaty
- plot
- rats
- existence
- ruins
- treatments
- peace
- answer
- battles
- castle
- art
- feeding
- trial
- independence
- attacks
- priest
- battle
- plots
- lesions
- equations
- modesty
- spirituality
- religion
- fights
- wisdom
- king
- procedure
- transactions
- gothic
- chivalries
- transaction
- heroics
How sham often is described ("________ sham")
- empty
- pillow
- evident
- solemn
- gilded
- big
- vulgar
- biggest
- bourgeois
- hollow
- colossal
- obvious
- brilliant
- superficial
- merest
- cruel
- much
- architectural
- pious
- worthless
- kohn
- pathetic
- wretched
- pitiful
- veriest
- barren
- ignoble
- sorry
- miserable
- ridiculous
- huge
- genuine
- conventional
- total
- perfect
- palpable
- deliberate
- meaningless
- costly
- gigantic
- ash
- transparent
- useless
- opaque
- idle
- randomized
- ush
- tawdry
- inward
- mere
- outright
- monstrous
- dangerous
- intellectual
- thirds
- greatest
- silly
- theatrical
- hypocritical
- aesthetic
- utter
- pure
- complete
- absolute
- rotten
- false
- elaborate
- conscious
- foolish
- cynical
- pretentious
