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Avarice
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insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
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Bacchanalian
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a drunken feast; orgy
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Bastion
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A well-fortified position.
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Copious
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large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful
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Extradite
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to give up (an alleged fugitive or criminal) to another state, nation, or authority.
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furtive
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taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously, by stealth, secretly
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Irascible
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easily provoked to anger; very irritable
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Jettison
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to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.
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mercenary
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a soldier guy, Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
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ostracize
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to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges
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