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igonomy
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great personal dishonor or humiliation; shame
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Noun.
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onslaught
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a violent and/or overwhelming attack
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Noun.
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blasphemy
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a contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concering God
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Noun.
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edict
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a decree or proclamation issued by an authority and having the force of law
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Noun.
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flout
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to show contempt for; to scorn
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Verb.
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impunity
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exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm
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Noun.
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immutable
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not subject or susceptible to change
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Adj.
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flagrant
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conspicuously bad, offensive, or rephrensible
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Adj.
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rout
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an overwhelming defeat
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Noun.
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infallible
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incapable of error or failure
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Adj.
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expiation
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compensation for a wrong; the act of atoning for a sin
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Noun.
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sacrilege
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desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred
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Noun.
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inexorable
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not to be persuaded or moved by words or deeds; firm
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Adj.
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sovereignty
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complete independence and autonomy
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Noun.
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blight
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something that impairs growth or withers hope and/or ambitions
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Noun.
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hapless
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luckless, unfortunate
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Adj.
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defilement
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the act of making something filthy or dirty; to profane
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Noun.
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unscathed
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not injured; unharmed
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Adj.
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perversity
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the act of deliberately deviating from what is right or good
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Noun.
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insatiable
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impossible to satisfy
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Adj.
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Prima-donna
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a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience
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Noun.
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prim
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formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat
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Adj.
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freeloader
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one who takes advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc
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Noun.
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delinquent
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failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty or a misdeed or offense, or past due; overdue
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Adj.
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Gesture
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a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc
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Noun.
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prosaic
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commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
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Adj.
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refracted
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deflected or bent
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Verb.
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Passe
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no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded.
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Adj.
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Emanate
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to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate, to send forth, emit
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Verb.
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Aperture
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an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
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Noun.
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surfeit
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to fill or supply to excess; to oppress or disgust with overabudance of something.
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Verb.
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mitigate
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to make something less harsh, severe or violent.
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Verb.
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perfunctory
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Done out of duty or custom, without thought, attention, or genuine feeling.
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Adj.
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Specious
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appearing to be true, but really false.
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Adj.
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Peripatetic
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traveling between places, working in several establishments.
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Adj.
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Cataclysm
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a great and destructive flood; a political or social upheavel which sweeps away the old order of things
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Noun.
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Visceral
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Pertaining to, or touching deeply, inward feelings or emotions.
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Adj.
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Quagmire
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a piece of wet and boggy ground, too soft to sustain the weight of men or the larger animals; a quaking bog; a fen, marsh.
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Noun.
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Tribulation
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A condition of great affliction, oppression, or misery; ‘persecution; distress; vexation; disturbance of life’
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Noun.
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Futile
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Incapable of producing any result; failing utterly of the desired end through intrinsic defect; useless, ineffectual, vain.
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Adj.
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Amputation
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the cutting off of all or part of a limb by surgery.
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Noun.
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Aggravate
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make worse or more severe, intensify
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Verb.
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Ramshackle
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loosely made or held together
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Adj.
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Homeostasis
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tendency of a system to remain stable
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Noun.
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Sanctuary
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sacred place where fugitives are entitled to immunity from arrest, safe place, place of refuge
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Noun.
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Phobia
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a persistent, irrational fear
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Noun.
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Asylum
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refuge, sanctuary, haven, shelter, retreat
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Noun.
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Conspiracy
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secret plot or plan by two or more persons
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Noun.
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Flotsam and Jetsam
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odds and ends, useless items, part of a wrecked ship
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Noun.
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Dormant
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inactive, lying asleep or as if asleep
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Adj.
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Pungent
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sharply affecting the senses of taste or smell, as if by penetrating power
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Adj.
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Cicada
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insect, about one inch long, male produces shrill sound by vibrating membranes on underside of abdomen
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Noun.
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Catatonic
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muscularly rigid, mentally stupefied
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Adj.
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Noncommittal
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vague, guarded, indefinite, evasive
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Adj.
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Wisteria
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climbing shrub related to legume family with showy, pendant clusters of blue-violet flowers
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Noun.
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Catharsis
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the purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions through certain kinds of acts
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Noun.
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Legume
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any plant of the legume family, fruit in a pod, or bean
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Noun.
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Horticulture
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science and art of cultivating plants
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Noun.
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Rhizobia
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plural (singular: Rhizobium) rod-shaped bacteria that fix or adhere nitrogen in nodules on the roots of bean plants.
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Noun.
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