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Lapse: 1. A mistake resulting from inattention 2. A break or intermission in the occurrence of something 3. A failure to maintain a higher state 4. Pass into a specified state or condition 5. End, at least for a long time 6. Drop to a lower level; as in one's morals or standards 7. Go back to bad behavior 8. Let slip 9. Pass by, as of time

Legislated: 1. Make laws, bills, etc.

Lend: 1. Give temporarily; let have for a limited time 2. Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open to

Lest: 1. Being ten more than forty 2. For fear that 3. That (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.)

Liabilities: 1. The quality of being something that holds you back

Liberty: 1. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence 2. Freedom of choice 3. Personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression 4. Leave granted to a sailor or naval officer 5. An act of undue intimacy

Life: 1. A characteristic state or mode of living 2. The experience of living; the course of human events and activities 3. The course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living 4. The condition of living or the state of being alive 5. The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) 6. The period between birth and the present time 7. The period from the present until death 8. Animation and energy in action or expression 9. Living things collectively 10. The organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones 11. An account of the series of events making up a person's life 12. A motive for living 13. Is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences. (Just For Today Pg.245) 14. Is a series of changes, both large and small. (Just For Today Pg.362)

Life-style: 1. A manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes

Limitations: 1. A principle that limits the extent of something 2. The quality of being limited or restricted 3. The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed 4.

Limitless: 1. Without limits in extent or size or quantity 2. Having no limits in range or scope 3. Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

Literature: 1. Creative writing of recognized artistic value 2. The humanistic study of a body of literature 3. Published writings in a particular style on a particular subject

Live: Make one's home or live in 2. Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style 3. Continue to live, endure or last 4. Stay alive; survive 5. Have life, be alive 6. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 7. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing 8. Showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy 9. Highly reverberant 10. Charged with an explosive 11. Rebounds readily 12. abounding with life and energy 13. abounding with life and energy 14. Of current relevance 15. charged or energized with electricity 16. Having life 17. Capable of erupting 18. Not recorded

Living Clean: 1. Learning to meet challenge.(Just For Today Pg.153)

Living: 1. The experience of living; the course of human events and activities 2. People who are still living 3. The condition of living or the state of being alive 4. The financial means whereby one lives 5. Make one's home or live in 6. Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style 7. Continue to live, endure or last 8. Stay alive; survive 9. Have life, be alive 10. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 11. Pertaining to living persons 12. True to life; lifelike 13. Dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination 14. Still in existence 15. Still in active use 16. Full of life and interest 17. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried 18. Having life

Lobbying: 1. Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

Loneliness: 1. The state of being alone in solitary isolation 2. Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned 3. A disposition toward being alone 4. Is not always alleviated when we enter into relationships or surround ourselves with others. (Just For Today Pg.156)

Lonely: 1. Lacking companions or companionship 2. Marked by dejection from being alone 3. Separated from or unfrequented by others; remote or secluded 4. Enjoyed or performed alone 5. A state of the heart, an emptiness that makes us feel sad and sometimes hopeless. (Just For Today Pg.156)

Lovable: 1. Having characteristics that attract love or affection

Love: 1. A strong positive emotion of regard and affection 2. Any object of warm affection or devotion 3. A beloved person; used as terms of endearment 4. A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction 5. A score of zero in tennis or squash 6. Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people 7. Have a great affection or liking for 8. Get pleasure from 9. Be enamored or in love with 10. Have sexual intercourse with 11. Is a principle that is expressed in the practice of goodwill toward one another (It Works How & Why Pg.131) 12. Is the principle that guides us to see NA as a greater Whole (It Works How & Why Pg. 157)

Loving: 1. Have a great affection or liking for 2. Feeling or showing love and affection (see caring)

Lulled: 1. Calm by deception 2. Become quiet or less intensive 3. Make calm or still

Luxurious: 1. Furnishing gratification of the senses 2. Rich and superior in quality