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Adjudicator
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A person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
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Adulteration
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The act of adulterating; Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
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Since non-compliance is tantamount to adulteration, meaning that company officials can be jailed, correct measurement methods are the key to the whole exercise.
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Affiliated
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To be in close connection
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Aisle
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Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
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Alamo
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The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
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Amenities
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Things that make you comfortable and at ease
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Amidst
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In the middle of
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Amnesty
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A pardon given to a large group of individual
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Anarchic
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Without law or control
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Anchor
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A central cohesive source of support and stability
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Anthropology
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The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
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Arm's length
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A distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
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As a result, the customer- and profit-orientation of business managers become subservient to the need to keep the majority owner happy or at arm’s length
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Arrogant
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Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
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Awkward
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Causing inconvenience
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Bait
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Something used to lure victims into danger
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Bait and switch
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A deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product
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Ballpark
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Near to the scope or range of something
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Bash
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To hit hard
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"Most customers are women who like the idea of bashing up the boss.
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Beckons
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Signal with the hands or nod
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Beef up
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strenthen
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Bellybutton
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Scar where the umbilical cord was attached
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Biddy
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Chick
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Bimbo
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A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men
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Bisque
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A thick cream soup made from shellfish
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Blood-curdling
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Extremely alarming
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the blood-curdling dialogue of “Kuthe! Kameene! Main tujhe jaan se maar daloonga!”
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Bolster
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Support and strengthen
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Niether of these statistics as presented really do much to bloster her claim.
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Bourse
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An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers
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Brag
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To exhibit self-importance
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Brat
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A very troublesome child
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Break
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Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
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Bump into
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Collide violently with an obstacle
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Canvas
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Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
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Casket
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Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
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Chum
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pal/sidekick
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Cited
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To be summoned to appear in court
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Clemency
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A lesser panalty than the court originally segested
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Collateral damage
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inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
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Conscience
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scruples
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Conscious
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aware
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Convention
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A large formal assembly
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I don't know if it's possible, but could you people conduct the psychopath convention down the hall?
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Convention
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A large formal assembly
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Convention Center
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A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that holds conventions. A large, cavernous public building with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for the surrounding municipal and metropolitan areas.
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Cuisine
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The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
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Cynic
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Someone who is critical of the motives of others
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Cynicism
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The feeling that things will turn out badly
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Dandy
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A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
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Dazzling
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Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning;
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Debate
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Debate is defined as the process of arguing about claims in situations where the outcome must be decided by an adjudicator. The focus of this introduction is on those elements of argumentation that are most often used in debate.
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Delinquent
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Past due; not paid at the scheduled time
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OPEC triggered a global energy crisis by imposing an oil embargo on the U.S. and raising prices to other customers in 1973.
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Demographer
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A scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
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Dermatologist
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A doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin
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Dichotomy
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a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
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This dichotomy is best exemplified in the oil and gas sector where the government, by virtue of controlling product prices in public interest, is driving the PSU oil companies to unsustainable losses.
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Diligence
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Conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
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Dissemination
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The act of dispersing or diffusing something
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Drool
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Saliva spilling from the mouth
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Dwelling
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Housing that someone is living in
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Economy of scale
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The saving in cost of production that is due to mass production
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Ecosystem
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A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
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Embargo
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A government order imposing a trade barrier
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Empathy
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Understanding and entering into another's feelings
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Entrepreneurial spirit
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Enthusiam for business (esp new idias)
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Ethic
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The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct
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Eulogy
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Formal expression of praise
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Feeble
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Lacking strength
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Fiasco
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A sudden and violent collapse??
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Fluke
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Foreclosure
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The legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default
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Giddyup
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Instruction to a horse to go faster
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Gonorrhea
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A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra
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Grassroot
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Of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental politico-economic group; The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
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Grotto
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A small cave (usually with attractive features)
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Hang-up
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An unforeseen obstacle
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Either that, or they've got a little hang-up about lying face-down in filth.
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Harbor
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A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
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Hefty
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Large in amount or extent or degree
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Hefty Price, Hefty bonus,
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Hoochie mamma
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Used to describe very large African American women who wear clothes that are far too small for them
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Hookup
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Connect or link
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Impede
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Be a hindrance or obstacle to
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Impunity
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Exemption from punishment or loss
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Incite
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To move to action
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Indian Giver
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One who ask you to return the present he has given you
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Indict
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To be charged with a crime/Accuse formally of a crime
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Indigenous
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Originating where it is found
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Induce
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To influence someone to do sth
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Indulgence
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A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
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Too much indulgence spoils a child.
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insanity
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psychopathy
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Liaison
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A channel for communication between groups
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Lobster
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Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
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Lucrative
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Producing a good profit
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Maneuver
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Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
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Metronome
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Clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
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Business and politics serve as the metronome for our society.
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Midget
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dwarf
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Mohel
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The Mohel is a person of the Jewish faith who is ordained to do circumcision under the guidelines
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Morale
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A state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose; The spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
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Morals
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Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
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Mortgage
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A conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
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Mull
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Reflect deeply on a subject
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I mulled over the events of the afternoon
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Mum
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Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
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Oh, Moses, smell the roses
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For God's sake, get a clue
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Oh, Moses, smell the roses. She's cheating on you!
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Oxymorons
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Conjoining contradictory terms
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as in 'deafening silence'
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Pamper
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Treat with excessive indulgence
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Panoramic
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A view that can be seen from all sides
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Paradigmatic Shift
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Change in a model or pattern that has been nearly universally accepted. For example, a change in consumer buying habits from buying airline tickets through travel agents to buying them over the Internet would be a paradigm shift.
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Patch
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A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
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Persecute
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To cause someone to suffer because of a belief
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Persuade
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Win approval or support for; Cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
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Philanthropist
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Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
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Phobia
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An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations
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Pillion
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A seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.
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Pimp
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Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
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Platter
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A large shallow dish used for serving food
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Plucky
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Showing courage
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Pop
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Come Out
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Poultry
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Flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
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Proctologist
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A doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus
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Protégé
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A person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protégé's career
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Retrench
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Tighten one's belt; use resources carefully; Make a reduction, as in one's workforce
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The company had to retrench
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Rhetoric
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Using language effectively to please or persuade
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Rip off
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Deprive somebody of something by deceit
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Rooster
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adult male chicken
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Sabotage
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To destroy
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Sane
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Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
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Savor
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Taste appreciatively
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Scant
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Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
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scant evidence
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Seizure
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A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
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Serenity
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The absence of mental stress or anxiety
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Severe
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Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
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"severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"
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Sigmund Freud
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Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
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Snub
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ignore
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Soiree
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A party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house)
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Solicit
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To ask for sth of value
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Spacious
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(of buildings and rooms) having ample space; Very large and open
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Springboard
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A beginning from which an enterprise is launched
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Stocky
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Heavy and compact in form or stature
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Stone's throw
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A short distance
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Strive
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Work toward a goal with great effort.
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Stroll
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A leisurely(slowly & in a relaxed way) walk (usually in some public place)
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Subservient
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Compliant and obedient to authority
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Tantamount
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Being essentially equal to something
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Tantrum
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A display of bad temper
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Telemarketer
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Person who use the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales
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Terrace
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Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
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TGIF
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Toast
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salute
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Tweak
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Adjust finely
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Umpteenth
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Last in an indefinitely numerous series
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This is an umpteenth such attempt.
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Vengeance
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retribution
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Vent
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Give expression or utterance to
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We have no other place to vent anger.
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Voucher programs
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allow parents to put tax dollars toward a private education - for example - in the form of a subsidy to the chosen school. The dollar value of a voucher is usually equal to, but may be less than, the state average per pupil expenditure, and may cover the partial or full cost of a private school tuition.
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Whammy
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A serious or devastating setback
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Double whammy of higher gas prices and higher credit card bills.
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Economy of scale
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The saving in cost of production that is due to mass production
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Ecosystem
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A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
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Dissemination
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The act of dispersing or diffusing something
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Lucrative
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Producing a good profit
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Mull
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Reflect deeply on a subject
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I mulled over the events of the afternoon
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Maneuver
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Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
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Indigenous
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Originating where it is found
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Grassroot
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Of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental politico-economic group; The common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
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Hefty
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Large in amount or extent or degree
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Hefty Price, Hefty bonus,
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Demographer
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A scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
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Pedophile
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An adult who is sexually attracted to children
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Drub
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Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight
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Begrudge
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Feel bitter or indignant about
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Tab
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bill in the restaurant
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Culpable
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Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
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Democrats and Republicans are equally culpable here.
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Incumbent
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The official who holds an office
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Every incumbent running for re-election should be asked where he or she was when all these giveaways were sailing through to passage.
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Hispanic
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An American whose first language is Spanish; Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain
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Peg
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Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
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The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar.
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Benedict Arnold
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United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled (1741-1801)
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Till
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Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
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to till the soil
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Harrow
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Draw a harrow over (land)
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Sluggish
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Very Slow
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a sluggish market/business/worker/growth/recovery.
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Hysteria
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State of violent mental agitation
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Inescapable
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Impossible to avoid or evade
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Even in goodtimes, job loses are an inescapable fact of life in dynamic economy.
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Frenetic
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Excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion
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Pyrrhic
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Of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
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A Pyrrhic victory
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Adorn
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Be beautiful to look at
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Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
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Ordain
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Order by virtue of superior authority;
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U.N.-ordained ceasefire
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Disguised
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Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
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Allude
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Make a more or less disguised reference to
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Prominent
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Vanguard
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Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
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Veil
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A garment that covers the head and face;
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Lift the veil
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Paramount
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Having superior power and influence
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Unbecoming
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Considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person
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conduct unbecoming
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Cohabit
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Room or live together; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
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Inhabit
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Be present in; be inside of
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Flyspeck (v)
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To examine closely or in minute detail; scrutinize
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Flyspeck (n)
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a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
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Excrement
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Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
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Scorn
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Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
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Punitive
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Inflicting punishment
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Nuances
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A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
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without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor
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Prudent
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Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
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A prudent decision; A prudent manager
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Rejuvenation
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The act of restoring to a more youthful condition/freshness
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A rejuvenation effort.
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Amid
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In the middle of; amidst
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Flurry
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A rapid bustling commotion
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White-collar
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Of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
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Blue-collar
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Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
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Pink-collar
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Of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women
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Buyout
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Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
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Marsh
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Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
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River Basin
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The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries
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Replenish
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Fill something that had previously been emptied
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Ebb
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The outward flow of the tide
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Wrangling
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An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
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After years of wrangling and a week of debate, astronomers voted for a sweeping reclassification of the solar system.
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Stubmle
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Miss a step and fall or nearly fall; An unsteady uneven gait
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Sloppy
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Marked by great carelessness
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scientifically sloppy
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Embryo
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An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
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Contraception
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Birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery
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Lesions
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Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
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Menstruation
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The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
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Yore
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The time that has elapsed
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Impediments
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Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
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Adolescent
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A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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Jeopardy
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A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
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Leech
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Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end; A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
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Slam
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Strike violently; Close violently; critisize severely
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Fade
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Gradually ceasing to be visible; A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer(SLICE)
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Abomination
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A person who is loathsome or disgusting; An action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
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Loathe
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Find repugnant; To feel great hatred and disgust for
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Vile
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Thoroughly unpleasant
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Abhor
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Find repugnant
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Repugnant
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Offensive to the mind; repulsive; obscene
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Execrate
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Find repugnant; Curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
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Anathema
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A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
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Ecclesiastical
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Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
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Insubordinate
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Not submissive to authority; Disobedient
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insubordinate behavior; insubordinate boy
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Exultant
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Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
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He was exultant when he heard he'd received the award
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Rejoice
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Feel happiness or joy
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Mushroom
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Grow and spread fast
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Housing development has mushroomed in bangalore
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Insolent
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Marked by casual disrespect; Unrestrained by convention or propriety
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Impudent
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Marked by casual disrespect; Improperly forward or bold
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Reluctant
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Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom
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Acquiescence
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Acceptance without protest; Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
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Loth
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Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
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Stringent
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Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; rigrous; tight
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Agonized
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Expressing pain or agony
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Agony
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Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; suffering
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Excruciation
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A state of acute pain
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Crucifixon
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The act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
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Semantic
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Of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of meaning
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semantic analysis
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Conspicuous
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Obvious to the eye or mind; Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
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Strident
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Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; Unpleasantly loud and harsh
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Raucous
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Unpleasantly loud and harsh
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Complacency
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The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself;self-satisfaction
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Poignant
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Arousing affect; Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
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Predicament
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A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
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Wacky
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Informal or slang term for mentally irregular
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Askew
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Turned or twisted toward one side; wonky; awry; lopsided; cockeyed
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Spank
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A slap with the flat of the hand
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Drubbing
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A sound defeat; Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight
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Vigrously
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With vigor; in a vigorous manner
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Savage
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A member of an uncivilized people; A cruelly rapacious person;Attack brutally and fiercely
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Behemoth
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Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful; giant; monster; goliath
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Menace
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Extrication
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The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
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Larrup
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Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
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Sarage
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Slingshot
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A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones
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Brutish
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Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
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Yahoo is the name of an imaginary race of brutish creature.
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Yahoo
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One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift; Not very intelligent or interested in culture
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Boorish
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Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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He was boorish and insensitive
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Coarse
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Of low or inferior quality or value
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Mythological
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Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
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Antiquity
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An artifact surviving from the past;Extreme oldness
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Delphi
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An ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the Temple of Apollo
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Oracle
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An authoritative person who divines the future
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Utopia
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Ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
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Claptrap
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Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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Pompous
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Puffed up with vanity(The quality of being valueless or futile)
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A pompous speech
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Pretentious
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Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
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a pretentious fraud
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Yearn
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Have a desire for something or someone who is not present
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Scramble
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An unceremonious and disorganized struggle; Bring into random order
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Hoe
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A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
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Pervert
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A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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Hurl
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Throw forcefully; Make a thrusting forward movement
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Hallucinate
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Perceive what is not there; have illusions
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Daft
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Informal or slang term for mentally irregular
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Daft talks
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Aphorism
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A short pithy instructive saying
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Jerk off
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Get sexual gratification through self-stimulation <Slang>
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Acute
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Extremely sharp or intense; Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
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Acute pain; acute observer
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Relic
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An antiquity that has survived from the distant past; Something of sentimental value
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Concede
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Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
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Vogue
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A current state of general acceptance and use; The popular taste at a given time
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Cardinal
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Serving as an essential component
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Antedate
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Be earlier in time; go back further; Establish something as being earlier relative to something else
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Colonialism
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Exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
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Imperialism
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A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
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Despot
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A cruel and oppressive dictator; tyrant; autocrat
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Annul
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Declare invalid; nullify; void
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The contract was annulled
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Enunciate
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Express or state clearly
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Enounce
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Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
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Arsenal
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All the weapons and equipment that a country has
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Leisure
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Time available for ease and relaxation; Freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity
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Niche
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A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; A small concavity; (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
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Notch
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A V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface; The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
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Gouge
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An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
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Rout
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A disorderly crowd of people
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Maverick
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1>Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action 2> An unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it
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baffle
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Be a mystery or bewildering to; amaze
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bewildering
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Causing bafflement
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Sewage
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Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
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Endemic
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A disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; Native to or confined to a certain region
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Outwit
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Beat through cleverness and wit
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Wit
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Mental ability; brainpower;mental capacity
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Anguish
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Extreme mental distress
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Bereaved
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Sorrowful through loss or deprivation; mourning;
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Bereaved families
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Bereft
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Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
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Anomalous
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Deviating from the general or common order or type
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Remorse
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A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed); compunction; Self-reproach
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Self-reproach
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The act of blaming yourself; A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
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contrition
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Sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
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Damn
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Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
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Decimate
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Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies; Kill in large numbers;annihilate
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Rapacity
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Extreme gluttony; Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
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Herald
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Foreshadow(Indicate by signs) or presage
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Purported
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Commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds
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Infernal
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Being of a lower world of the dead
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Infernal religion/people/caste
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Drove
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A moving crowd; A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
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they killed in droves anyway…
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Atrocity
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cruelty; barbarity; inhumanity
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Perpetrate
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Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
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perpetrate a crime/atrocity
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Hazard(v)
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Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
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Speculate
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To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
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Hallowed
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Render holy by means of religious rites; Worthy of religious veneration
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Rapacious
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Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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the rapacious wolf
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Venture
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Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; Set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.)' Embark
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Amends
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Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
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how can I make amends
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Atone
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Make amends for;expiate
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Archetypal
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Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
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Abstemious
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Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
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Flaunt
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The act of displaying something ostentatiously; ostenate; swank; show off; flash
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Ostenate
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Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously;Flaunt; swank; show off;flash
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Helm
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A position of leadership
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At the helm of sth.
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Steer
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Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
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Cinnamon
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Aromatic bark used as a spice
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Bark
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Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
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Cardamom
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Rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning
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Rhizome
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A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
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Cilantro
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Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley
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Pristine
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Completely free from dirt or contamination
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Pristine purity
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Brew
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Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
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people have been brewing beer for thousands of years
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Ale
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A general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
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Theoretically you can brew your own ale.
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Votaries
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A devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
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Adherents
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Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
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Dissent
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(law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority
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Repent
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Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
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Defiance
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Intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude; A hostile challenge; A defiant act
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Pedlar
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Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
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Drug padlar
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Ware
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Commodities offered for sale;Articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: silverware; software
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Drug peddler
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An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
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Bootlegger
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Someone who makes or sells illegal liquor; moonshiner
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This city is full of bootleggers or drugpaddlers.
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Engulf
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Flow over or cover completely
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Iota
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A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; tittle;whit
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Tittle
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A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; iota;whit
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Whit
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A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; iota; tittle
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Hitched
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Connect to a vehicle;To hook or entangle
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inescapabaly hitched to..
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Congruent
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Corresponding in character or kind
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Remedy
|
Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
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Bandwagon
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A popular trend that attracts growing support; A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band
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Vogue
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The popular taste at a given time
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Prerogative
|
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); exclusive right; previlege
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Creed
|
Any system of principles or beliefs
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Flamboyant
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Elaborately or excessively ornamented
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Extol
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Praise, glorify, or honor
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Conjugal
|
Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband; Of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband
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Conjugal pair
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Prejudice
|
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation; preconception; bias
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Malaise
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Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
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Intriguing
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Disturbingly provocative
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an intriguing smile
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Apathy
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An absence of emotion or enthusiasm
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Subtle
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Be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
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Conceivably
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Within the realm of possibility
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Avert
|
Turn away or aside
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avert their eyes
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Shroud
|
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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cold shroud of death
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Deluge
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Fill or cover completely, usually with water
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Moats
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Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water; fosses
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Aqueducts
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A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley
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Conduits
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A passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass
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Prowess
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A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
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we are blessed with the technological prowess.
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Innate
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Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
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Ailment
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An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
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Habitation
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Housing that someone is living in
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Inundate
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Fill or cover completely, usually with water
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Habitat
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The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
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Acolytes
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Someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
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Gestation
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The conception and development of an idea or plan;The state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
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Gestation period
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Harness
|
Exploit the power of
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harness natural forces and resources; its not that poor do not harness the water of rivers.a
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Obituary
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A notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
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Protagonist
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A person who backs a politician or a team etc.; admirer; supporter
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Erode
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Become ground down or deteriorate;
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Terrain
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A piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential
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Eegalitarian
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Favoring social equality; classless; equalitarian
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Swerve
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Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
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Obscure
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Not clearly understood or expressed
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Vagary
|
An unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)
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"the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years"
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Tyranny
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Dominance through threat of punishment and violence; A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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Tyranny of majority over minority
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Proletariat
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A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
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Destitution
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A state without friends or money or prospects
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Hegemony
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The domination of one state over its allies
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Bud
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A partially opened flower
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Blossom
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The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
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Exodus
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A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
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Rural exodus & the brain drain phenomena
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Endogeneous
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Derived or originating internally
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Dribbling
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The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
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Ditch(n)
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Any small natural waterway
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Ditch(v)
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Throw away; Make an emergency landing on water; Crash or crash-land; Cut a trench in, as for drainage
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Volley
|
A tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces; Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; fusillade;salvo;burst
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Yet every Israeli land-for-peace gesture has been met with a return volley of suicide bombers and rockets.
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Balk
|
Refuse to comply;resisted
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Relinquish
|
Relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another; surrender; give up
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"Hezbollah launched the current war from territory Israel had relinquished six years earlier.
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Vice
|
Moral weakness
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Semitic
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A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family( Middle East and northern Africa)
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Semite
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A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
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Archetype
|
An original model on which something is patterned; original; pilot
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God's archetype
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Annihilate
|
Kill in large numbers; Decimate;wipe out
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Infidel
|
A person who does not acknowledge your God; gentile; pagan
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Anti-Semitism
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The intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
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Grandeur
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The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand;splendor
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Impart
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Bestow a quality on; contribute
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Hatred and murder are self-realization because they impart grandeur to Islamic extremists
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Grandiosity
|
High flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
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"The grandiosity is in the hating and fighting, not the victory.
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Puny
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Inferior in strength or significance;shrimpy;runty
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Stymie
|
Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; blocked; hindered;obstructed
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Cringe
|
Show submission or fear
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American power cringes when labeled with sins of the white Western past.
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Disparity
|
Inequality or difference in some respect
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Bigotry
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The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot;dogmatism
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Bigot
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A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
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Saber-rattling
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The ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used)
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Islamic extremism is the saber-rattling of an inferiority complex.
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Surreal
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Resembling a dream
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Halal
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meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
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Slate
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A list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
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Assimilate
|
Become similar to one's environment
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Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly; forcibly deport immigrants who failed to assimilate
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Pervasive
|
Spreading throughout; permeating;infamous
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Amid a pervasive and growing sense of lawlessness
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Notorious
|
Having an exceedingly bad reputation; infamous; ill-famed
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pepper spray
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A nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum; used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker; also used as a bear deterrent; aerosol container
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Aerosol
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A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas
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Totalitarian
|
Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
|
a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul
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Indictment
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An accusation of wrongdoing
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Disillusioned
|
Freed from illusion; enlightened
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Apocalypse
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A cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
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Downbeat
|
Pessimistic
|
the report was downbeat about prospects for the future; people’s expectations for the future now as downbeat as they were in 1992 and 1993, when the job market had not yet recovered from a recession.
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Partisans
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An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity; partizans
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Saly; Slew;Slain
|
Kill intentionally and with premeditation
|
Archimedes, so distracted by an equation he was scratching in the sand that he was slain by a Roman soldier.
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Spurn
|
Reject with contempt; Turn down; scorn
|
Spurn the prize.
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Reclusive
|
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
|
reclusive Russian topologist
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Topology
|
The branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions; analysis situs
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Voracious
|
Excessively greedy and grasping; ravening; rapacious
|
paying taxes to voracious governments; voracious appetite; voracious demand
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Skepticism
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Doubt about the truth of something; disbelief
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Plunge
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A steep and rapid fall
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Plunge in home sales; stock price subsequently plunged
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Entrenched
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Established firmly and securely
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Plummet
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Drop sharply; Plunge??
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copper prices plummeted; stock market might plummet.
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Cosmopolitan
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Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests
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Provincial
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Characteristic of the provinces or their people
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Clique
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An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose; coterie
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Haul
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Draw slowly or heavily; Transport in a vehicle; dragged
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Deter
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Try to prevent; show opposition to; discourage
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Politics no more a deterrent for D-street
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Cue
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A stimulus that provides information about what to do; Evidence that helps to solve a problem; clue
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a tapering rod used in pool/billiards (Cue Stick)
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Tapering
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Gradually narrowed toward a point
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a tapering rod used in pool/billiards (Cue Stick)
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Tampering
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The act of altering something secretly or improperly;fiddling;meddling
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Ball tampering
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Charge-sheet
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The daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station
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Blotter
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The daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station; Absorbent paper used to dry ink
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Stipulate
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Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
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Against the stipulated norms of trading; The contract stipulates the dates of the payments
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Palm off
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Sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
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Foist
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To force onto another; impose
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He foisted his work on me
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Fob(v)
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Deceive somebody
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Vest
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A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
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Fob(n)
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A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
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Imminent
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Close in time; about to occur; at hand; impending
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Foray
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An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
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Sumant Sinha has been given the responsibility to raise funds for this foray.
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Rope in
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Draw in as if with a rope; lure
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Apart from recruiting some key people from ITC and Godrej, the company is said to have roped in Shoppers Stop’s head of HR, Vijay Kashyap
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Apparel
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Clothing in general; garment
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Meagre
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Deficient in amount or quality or extent;insufficient
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Compensation offered to consumers by companies in the event of a damaged or defective product is extremely meagre
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Atttrition Rate
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The rate of shrinkage in size or number;rate of attrition
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Potent
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Having or wielding force or authority; strong
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Agglomeration
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The act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating; aggregation; collection
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Triumph
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The exultation of victory; A successful ending of a struggle or contest
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Vivid
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Evoking lifelike images within the mind; graphic; pictorial
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a vivid description;a vivid demonstration
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Vibrant
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Vigorous and active
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Vigorous
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Characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; energetic; robust
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Robust
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Strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge
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the experiment yielded robust results;
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Malevolent
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Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred;malicious
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Catastrophe
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An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; calamity; tragedy; disaster
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Millenial
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Relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years; millenian
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Boondock
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A remote and undeveloped area; hinterland;backwoods;back country
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Farce
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A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
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Satire
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Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; sarcarsm; caustic remark
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Irony
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Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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Incongruity
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The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate; incongruousness
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Entourage
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The group following and attending to some important person; retinue;
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a whole entourage of mediapersons made an unexpected entry
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Gaze
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A long fixed look; Stare
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I want out of the public gaze.
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Unfurl
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Unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
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unfurl a banner; unfurl a flag; unfurl the tricolour
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Doldrum
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A state of inactivity (in business or art etc); stagnation
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If fate played foul with him on Dadri, where the future of his Rs 11,000 crore-worth 374-MW power plant is in the doldrums on account of uncertainty over gas supply
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Bigwig
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The most important person in a group or undertaking; top banana; kingpin
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Incessant
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Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; ceaseless; constant; never-ending; perpetual; unremitting
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Remit
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Send (money) in payment
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Knee-jerk
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A reflex extension of the leg resulting from a sharp tap on the patellar tendon
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knee-jerk reaction
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Exacerbate
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Make worse;aggravate
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Hoarding
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Save up as for future use; squirreling away;stashing
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Myriad
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Too numerous to be counted; countless; infinite; innumerous; uncounted
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"myriad stars; IMF has played a central role in easing myriad financial crises since the end of World War II.
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Woefully
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In an unfortunate or deplorable manner; sadly; lamentably; deplorably
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China, like many other fast-developing countries, is “woefully underrepresented” at the I.M.F., with a smaller share of the total voting rights than other countries with smaller economies slower growth.
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Precursor
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A person who goes before or announces the coming of another; An indication of the approach of something or someone;
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The I.M.F., along with the World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the W.T.O., grew out of meetings near the end of World War II at Bretton Woods, N.H.
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Rebuff (v)
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Reject outright and bluntly; repel;snub
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Diminish
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Decrease in size, extent, or range; Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; belittle; decrease; fall; lessen
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diminish the voting rights;
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Chancellor
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The person who is head of state (in several countries); [Brit] The honorary or titular head of a university
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Honorary
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Given as an honor without the normal duties; Unpaid (of an office holder)
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Titular
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Being such in name only; Of or associated with or bearing a title signifying nobility; nominal
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Squabble
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A quarrel about petty points; Argue over petty things; bicker; brabble; niggle; pettifog; quibble
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Petty
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Contemptibly narrow in outlook; small-minded
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petty little comments
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Benign
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Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; Of disposition or manner; not dengerous
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Spur
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Incite or stimulate; Give heart or courage to; A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
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Dusk
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The time of day immediately following sunset; twilight; gloaming; crepuscle; nightfall;
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….a chilly fog darkens the landscape and daylight seems to turn to dusk
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Beetle
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Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings; A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing;
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Wean
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Gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; Detach the affections of; ablactate
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she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk; The company, called SpiralFrog, said its intention was to wean music fans away from illegal downloads and pirate music sites by offering a legitimate source that is supported by advertising instead of download fees.
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Chafe
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Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; Cause friction
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Augment
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Enlarge or increase; Grow or intensify
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Beleaguer
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Surround so as to force to give up
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Cash cow
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A project that generates a continuous flow of money; money-spinner
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It looks like eBay is milking its auction site as a cash cow to invest in PayPal and Skype
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Deteriorate
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Grow worse; drop
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Eloquent
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Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; Fluent;silver-tounged; facile
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The minutes were more eloquent in discussing the downside risks.
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Waning
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(of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent; Grow smaller; declining; going down
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the waning impetus of household wealth effects on consumer spending
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Impetus
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A force that moves something along; drift; impulsion
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the waning impetus of household wealth effects on consumer spending
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Rattle
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Shake and cause to make a rattling noise
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Fray
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A noisy fight
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An Internet assault on the paper-clipping coupon business is indeed under way, and Google has now entered the fray
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Peril
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A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; risk; jeopardy; hazard
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Resilience
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The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
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Ingrained
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(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; deep rooted; implanted
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Ingrained habit; Coupons are an ingrained part of the nation’s shopping culture
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Blunderbuss
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A short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
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"Paper coupon is the marketing equivalent of a blunderbuss, while the Internet offers a laser shot.
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Whisk
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Brush or wipe off lightly; Move somewhere quickly; n- A small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
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