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- she listened with deep affliction as her daughter told her about the latest trouble she was in
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- felt such great affliction over the destruction of the beautiful old home
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- blue devils,
- blues,
- dejection,
- depression,
- desolateness,
- desolation,
- despair,
- despondence,
- despondency,
- disconsolateness,
- dispiritedness,
- distress,
- doldrums,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- dumps,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- heartsickness,
- joylessness,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- misery,
- mopes,
- oppression,
- sorrowfulness,
- unhappiness,
- woefulness,
- wretchedness
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- alcohol has been his affliction ever since he took his first drink at the age of 12
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- cronyism and corruption are afflictions on the body politic
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The first known use of affliction was in the 14th century
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