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Utopia
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a place or state of perfect social and political conditions
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perfect, conditions...
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Declaim
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to recite something in teh style of a public speech; to speak in a loud theatrical way
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recite
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coalesce
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to grow together, to unite to form a whole
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together
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obdurate
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resistant to persuasion, inflexible
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resistant
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demagogue
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a leader who seeks power by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices and by making false claims
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false claims
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sedulous
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completed with careful perserverance; diligent
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diligent
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acolyte
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one who attends or assists; a follower
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follower
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trenchant
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expressed with vigor and penetrating insight; keenly perceptive
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keen
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prescience
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foresight; knowledge beforehand of events
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foresight
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covert
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not openly acknowledged; secret
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secret
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delineate
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to describe vividly in detail
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vivid
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bibulous
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given to the consumption of alcoholic drinks
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drinking
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encomium
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an expression of warm and enthusiastiv praise; a tribute
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tribute
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valedictory
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a farewell adress
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farewell
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protagonist
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the chief character in a drama or story
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character
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immure
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to confine within or as if within walls; to imprison
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imprison
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internecine
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marked by slaughter; mutually destructive
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destructive
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quadrennial
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occuring every four years
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four
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absolve
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to clear guilt, or to free from a promise or a responsiblity
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clear guilt
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germane
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pertinent and fitting
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fitting
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow in an indirect way; to outline in a sketchy way
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sketchy
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congenital
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existing at or dating from birth
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birth
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ineluctable
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not to be avoided or changed; inevitable
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inevitable
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elan
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a lively spirit with a distinctive style
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style
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invoke
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to appeal to earnestly
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appealing
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apothegm
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a short, instructive saying
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saying
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hiatus
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a gap in time
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gap
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prototype
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a thing that serves as an example, the original
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original
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aspersion
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a defamatory expression; slander
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slander
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coadjuator
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one who works with another
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assistant
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apothecary
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one who prepares and sells ointments, drugs, and similar items for medicinal purposes
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dad
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charlatan
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on who falsely claims
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false
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imbibe
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to comsume, absord mentally
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absorb
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ascetic
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refraining from self-indulgence
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refrain from being cocky
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perennial
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lasting indefinitly or recurring
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indefinite
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amalgam
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an alloy of mercury and other metals
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alloy
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flora
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plants considered as a group in a particular area
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plants
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denizen
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an in habitant, resident or frequenter
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citizen
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beneficent
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doing or preducing good
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beneficial
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savant
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person with detailed knowledge in a specialized feild
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save info on one topic
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antediluvian
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very old fashioned
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old
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obviate
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to prevent or make unecessary, to get rid of
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obliviate...to rid
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nostrum
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a medicine or remedy whole effectiveness has not been proven
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a remedy..not proven
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putative
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commonly excepted or supposed
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simply "put"
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doyen
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a senior member of a group, especailly one who is highly respected
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senior
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expatiate
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to speak or write about in great detail
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detail
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laudable
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praiseworthy
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applaudable
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ostensible
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only seeming so
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apparent
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mandate
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clear command or instruction
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command
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mandate
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clear command or instruction
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command
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benighted
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existing in a state of darkness
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dark, night
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credo
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a strongly held belief or custom
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custom
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iconoclast
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one who attacks established beliefs
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attacks believers
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approbation
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expresion of approval, praise
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praise
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eschew
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to shun, stay away from
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shew, shun
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recalcitrant
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unwilling to accept another's authority; stubbornly defiant
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defiant
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empirical
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based on experiance or observation as opposed to theory
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based on
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risible
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provoking or causing laughter
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laughter
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bourgeois
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middle class
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middle
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indigence
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extreme poverty
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dig
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stultify
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to render useless
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weaken
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chicanery
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clever diception through misleading
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clever
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stratagem
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clever scheme for gaining an end
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scheme
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egregious
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conspicuously bad, flagrant
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bad
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pecuniary
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having to do with money
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money
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archaic
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relating or belonging to earlier time
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earlier time
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paroxysm
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sudden violent uncontrolable action
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uncontrolable
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rectitude
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high moral character
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tude
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vandetta
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blood feud
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execrate
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to utterly abhor, to denounce as detestable
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to hate
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carouse
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to take part in drunken merrymaking
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merry
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fealty
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faithfullness, allegiance
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faithful
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dissemble
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to conceal with an intent to decieve
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decieving
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microcosm
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a small system that operates or developes like a larger system
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system
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contentious
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causing or marked by arguement or conflict
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opposite of content
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ramification
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an outgrowth of a simple idea or plan
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outgrowth
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insidious
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seemingly harmless but actually being dangerous
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seems harmless
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genealogy
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study of the history of you family or how they are related to eachother
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genes
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brackish
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salty
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precursor
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person or thing that comes before and indicate approach of another
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topor
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state of mental or physical sluggishness
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slug
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dolorous
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causing or marked by pain misery or sorrow
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misery
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inebriated
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deprived of good sense of judgement
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drunk
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presentiment
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feeling that somehting is about to occur
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endemic
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widespread to a certain area
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epidemic
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cognitive
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relating to mental processes
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mental
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actuate
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to cause to put into mechanical motion
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motion
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dissertation
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a lengthy discussion of topic
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paper
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fecund
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intellectually or artistically productive, creative
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creative
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interloper
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one who intrudes on or interferes in the affairs of others
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interferer
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egregious
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conspicuously bad, flagernant
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bad
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abjure
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to renounce formally, under oath
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amorphous
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without a definite shape, formless
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animus
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an attitude or spirit within a person that strongly influences him or her
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dichotomy
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division into two distint parts
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exemplar
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an example or model, and ideal one
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herculean
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of extraordinary power, size, or difficulty
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inchoate
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not fully formed or realized, just begun
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invidious
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likely to cause resentment
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mélange
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mixture of disimilar things
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nefarious
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very wicked
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nihilism
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veiwpoint which denies meaning of life
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ratify
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to approve, or verify
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subsume
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to encompass in a larger or more comprehensive group; to include
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variegated
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varied as to form, type or color
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vitiate
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to impair or weaken
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aborigine
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an original inhabitant
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abrogate
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to put an end to; to abolish or repeal
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appurtenance
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an item of equipment; accesory
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bivouac
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a temporary camp/shelter, to stay in such a camp
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cetacean
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a member of the order of marine mammals that includes whales and dolphins
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decry
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to criticize strongly; to denounce
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desuetude
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a sate of disuse
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leviathan
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anything that is of enourmaous size
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mawkish
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excessively sentimental
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misapprehen
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to fail to understand correctly
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parochial
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limited or narrow in scope or outlook-of or related to church
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purvey
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to be in the buissness of supplying goods, especially food or provisions, for use
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recourse
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a turning to someone or something for aid
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replete
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well supplied, full
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waive
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to give up as a right, to forgo
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apposite
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highly relevant, apt
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calumny
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a false accuasation meant to hurt someone's rep; slander
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domain
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an area or territory over which control is exercised, a field of knowledge
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dorsal
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of on or near the back
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enervate
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to lessen the vigor of, to engeeble
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epicure
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one with descriminating taste, especially but not exclusively realting to food and drink
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exculpate
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to clear from alleged guilt or fault
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heterogenious
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differing in kin or parts, varied
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infinitesimal
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extremely small in size or quantity
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lateral
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of at from or towards the side
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primeval
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of or realting to the earliest ages
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quintessence
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the best or most typical example
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serrated
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haveing a saw toothed edge
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veritable
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being in fact the thing named or described; literally so
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viviparous
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producing living young instead of eggs, in the manner of most mammals
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acumen
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keeness of the mind; shredmess
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apotheosis
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the elecation of a person or thing to divine status
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askew
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turned or tweisted to one side, out of line
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chasten
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to correct or improve by discipling; to cause to be more careful
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demarcation
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the act or process of setting a boundary
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dictum
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a statement or pronouncement
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erstwhile
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of an earlier time, former
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forte
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an activity at which a person exceeds
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habitue
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a person who regularly goes to a particular place
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nonplus
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to couse to be at a loss as to what to say or do
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peripatetic
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of or relating to going from plave to place, especially on foot
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prodigal
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one who spends lavishly or wastefully
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sycophant
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one who uses flattery to win favor or to ingratieate him or herslef
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vacuous
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lacking intelligence or idas; intellectuallty emptiness
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wraith
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a shadowy or ghostlike figure
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cacophony
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harsh or jarring sound
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confrere
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comrade; colleague
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convoke
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to summon or call together for a meeting
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filial
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of relating to or befitting a son or daughter
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fractious
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tending to be troublesome; irritable
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fulminate
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to express with denunciation often in an exploseve way
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jocular
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give to or characterized by joking;playful
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nugatory
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having no force or effect
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obloquy
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an utterance of kenunciation, the condition of one who is held in contmpt for a shamelful action
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palpable
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easy to touch or feel, heasy to see hear or recognize
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parity
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equality of rand or value
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peruse
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to read through something either casually or closely
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polemic
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an argument to refute a position or opinion, one who aggressively advocates a position
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supplicate
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to ask for humbly, to plead/beg
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temporize
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to act evasively in order to achieve a compromise or to gain time
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