2008 November Week 1

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MAVERICK

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1: an unbranded range animal ; especially : a motherless calf
2: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

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RENDITION

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the act or result of rendering: as

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DISSEMINATE

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1 : to spread abroad as though sowing seed <disseminate ideas>
2 : to disperse throughout

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ELECTORATE

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1 : the territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of a German elector
2 : a body of people entitled to vote

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POLITIC

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1 : political 2 : characterized by shrewdness in managing, contriving, or dealing 3 : sagacious in promoting a policy 4 : shrewdly tactful

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SATIRE

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1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn 2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

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GERRYMANDER

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1 : the act or method of gerrymandering
2 : a district or pattern of districts varying greatly in size or population as a result of gerrymandering

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INDUCT

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1: to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install <was inducted as president of the college>2 a: to admit as a member <inducted into a scholastic society> b: introduce , initiate c: to enroll for military training or service (as under a selective service act)3: lead , conduct

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REPUBLIC

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1 a (1): a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1): a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c: a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic>
2: a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity <the republic of letters>
3: a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Yugoslavia

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DEMOCRACY

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1 a: government by the people ; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States <from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy — C. M. Roberts>
4: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges

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PORK

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1 : the fresh or salted flesh of swine when dressed for food
2 : government funds, jobs, or favors distributed by politicians to gain political advantage

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BIPARTISAN

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: of, relating to, or involving members of two parties ; specifically : marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties

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HYPOCRISY

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1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not ; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
2: an act or instance of hypocrisy

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SUMMIT

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1: top , apex ; especially : the highest point : peak
2: the topmost level attainable <the summit of human fame>
3 a: the highest level of officials ; especially : the diplomatic level of heads of government b: a conference of highest-level officials (as heads of government) <an economic summit>

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REFORM

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1 a: to put or change into an improved form or condition b: to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses
2: to put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action
3: to induce or cause to abandon evil ways <reform a drunkard>
4 a: to subject (hydrocarbons) to cracking b: to produce (as gasoline or gas) by crackingintransitive verb: to become changed for the better