penchant
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a feeling of pleasure and enjoymenttypes:prédilectiona strong likingtendancethat toward which you are inclined to feel a likingtendancean inclination to do somethingtype of:
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a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
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a predisposition to like something
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a natural inclination
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a strong likingsynonyms: prédilection
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that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
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Citra and Rowan live in a society in which all natural causes of death have been eliminated. The two teenagers are recruited to be "scythes," people who administer death in order to cull the population.