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AMBIVALENCE
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The coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action.
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RELEGATED
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To send or consign to an inferior position, place, condition.
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INTANGIBLE
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Not definite or clear to the mind; intangible; incapable of being percieved by the sense of touch.
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MICROCOSM
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Miniture World
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MARAUDER
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Attacker
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INITIATE
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to begin, set going or originate; to begin or accept with formal rites into an orginazation
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CONSTRAINING
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to force, compel, or oblige; to repress or restrain
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CONSUMPTION
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the act of consuming; by use or destruction or decay
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DECIMATES
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the act of using up by decay ot destruction
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IMPETUS
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A moving force; impulse; stimulus
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IMPLICATIONS
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consequences
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GRASSROOTS
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involving ordinary people
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POTABLE
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fit for drinking
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ALLEVIATE
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lessen
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MUNICIPALITY
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town
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DESERTIFICATION
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process of becoming a desert
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ECO-TOURISM
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envirmentally friendly tourism
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COUPLED
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combined
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MARKETABLE
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can be sold
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SPIGOT
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faucet
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ARCHIVAL
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related to public records
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DISPARATE
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distinct in quality or character
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SEQUENTIALLY
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chronologically
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ETHICS
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moral principle or practices
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CERVIX
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the narrow outer end of the uterus
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GNOMISH
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dwarf-like
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MITOSIS
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the process of cell division
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OMNIPRESENT
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present in all places at all times
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AGNOSTIC
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related to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown
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GYNECOLOGY
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the branch of medicine dealing with diseases and hygiene of women
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IDYLLIC
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simple, country, peaceful
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CARCINOMAS
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malignant tumors
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METASTASIZE
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spread of the cancer cells from part of the body to another
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INDIGENT
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impoverished; needy; poor
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MALIGNANT
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injurious; tending to produce deterioration
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TEDIOUS
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tiresome because of monotony or dullness
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TEDIOUS
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tiresome because of monotony or dullness
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SURFEIT
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overindulgence in eating or drinking, an exessive amount
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SURMISE
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to guess, to infer without certain evidence
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SURVEILLENANCE
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a watch kept over someone or something
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SURPLUS
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an amount greater than needed
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SUBSEQUENT
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occuring later, following
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SUBSERVIENT
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excessivly submissive
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SUBSIDAIRY
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subordinate or secondary
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SUBSTANTIATE
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to establish proof
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SUBVERT
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to overthrow somthing, such as a goVERment; to cause ruin of
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SUBSISTENCE
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the means of supporting life
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