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the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable
- the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom
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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.
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