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• distinction: The idea was to efface any distinction between speakers and ' audience ' : all were equal participants.

• impression: Years must pass away in order to efface the impression which was then, I think indelibly, stamped upon my mind.

• memory: Blair evidently hopes that a humanitarian war will efface the memories of the ' war for oil ' in Iraq.

• sin: In a very deep sense, tho not in the deepest, the love of the penitent effaces the sin.

Modifying Another Word

• not: At the same time this strategy does not efface local cultural originality, the specific imagery bound to certain localities.

• progressively: As Ellul puts it, 'The technological environment is progressively effacing the other two.