Read 180: Beg, Borrow, And Steal

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accumulate

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(v.) to collect over a period of time

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bankrupt

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(adj.) legally unable to pay debts; (v.) to cause to become bankrupt

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cache

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(n.) safe place to hide things; (v.) to hide or store

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counterfeit

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(n.) an imitation made to deceive; forgery; (adj.) made in imitation so as to deceive; pretended or forged; (v.) to make an imitation or fraud; to pretend; to feign

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embezzle

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(v.) to steal (money, etc., entrusted to one's care); to take by fraud for one's own use

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entreat

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(v.) to ask earnestly; to appeal; to plead

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hoard

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(v.) to accumulate and hide or to keep in reserve; (n.) a supply stored up or hidden

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implore

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(v.) to ask or beg earnestly for

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larceny

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(n.) theft of property

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mendicant

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(n.) one who begs

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mortgage

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(n.) pledge to pay back debt; (v.) to put an advance claim or liability on

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pilfer

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(v.) to steal (especially small sums or petty objects); filch

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plagiarize

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(v.) to take ideas or writings from another person or source and pass them off as your own

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thief

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(n.) one who steals; one guilty of theft or larceny

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usurp

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(v.) to take or assume power, or a position, or the rights to something and hold in possession by force or without right