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Candidate
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A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.
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Merchant
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One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retial sale of goods for profit.
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Counsel
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The act of exchanging opinions and ideas, consultation
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Insecurity
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Not sure or certain, doubtful
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Traditonal
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Realting to or in accord with traditon
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Abolish
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To do away with, annul
To destroy completely. |
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Depopulation
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To reduse sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation
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Buddhism
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The teaching of Buddah that life is permeated with suffering casued by desire
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Market Economy
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An economy that operates by voluntary exchange in a free market and is not planned or controlled by a central authority.
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Moisture
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Diffuse wetness that can be felt as vapor in teh atmosphere or condensed liquid on the surfaces of objects dampness.
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Minuteman
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An armed man pledged to be ready to fight.
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Revolution
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Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguised from axial rotation.
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Quantity
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A specified or indefinite number or amount.
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Demand
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To ask for urgently peremptorily
To claim as just or due. |
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Germanic
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Relating to a characteristic of Germany or its people, language, or culture
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Bravery
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The condition or quality of being brave.
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Flourish
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To grow well or luxuriantly, Thrive
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Corruption
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The act or process of corrupting
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Salary
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paid to a person on a regular basis.
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Confederation
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The act of forming into or becoming part of a confederacy.
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Mandatory
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Required or commanded by authority, obligatory.
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Public Speaking
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The act, art, or process of making effective speeches before an audience.
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Citizens
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A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to teh protection of a state or nation.
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Isolationism
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A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries
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Autocracy
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Government by a single person having unlimited power, despotism.
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Demestication
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To casue to feel comfortable at home
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Abolitionist
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Advocacy of the abolition of slavery
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Compromise
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A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions
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Impose
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To establish or apply as compulsory
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Economic
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Of or relating to the production, development and management of material wealth, as of a country household or business enterprise
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Banned
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To prohibit
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Pioneer
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One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.
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Prevailing wind
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The predominant wind direction
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Free Enterprise
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The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation
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Executive Agreement
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An agreement made between the executive branch of the u.s government and a foreign government without ratification by the senate.
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Monarchy
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Government by a monarch
A state ruled or headed by a monarch |
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Herding
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A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
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Command Economy
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An economy that is planned and controlled by a central administration, as in the former Soviet Union
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Harmony
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Agreement in feeling or opinion, accord.
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Abridging
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To reduse the length of, Condense
To cut short |
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Retail
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To sell in small quantities directly to consumers.
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Swedish
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Of or relating to Sweden, The Sweded, or their culture or language.
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Federal
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Relating to a form of government in which a union of states recognizes the sovereignty of a central authority.
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Education
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The act or process of educating or being educated.
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Local
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Of relating to, or characteristic of a particualr place.
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Eclipse
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The partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designted observer, of one celestical body or another.
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Surplus
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Being more than or in excess of what is needed or required.
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Enslavement
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To make into or as if into a slave
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Democratic
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Of, characterized by or advocating democracy
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Democracy
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Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
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Distribution
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Separation into parts of classes, arrangement of anything into parts.
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Capitalism
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An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned
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Currency
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Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange.
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Fossile Fuel
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Fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earths crust with high carbon and hydrogen content.
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Constitutional
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Of or relating to a constitution.
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Production
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The act or process of producing
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Conversion
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The act of converting
Something that is changed from one use. |
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Parliament
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A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within the state.
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Effect
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Somethign brought about by a casue or agent, a result.
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Entrepreneur
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A person who organizes operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
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Shinto
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A religion native to Japan
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Renovate
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To restore to an earlier condition as by repairing or remodeling.
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Data
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Factual information especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
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Relilgion
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Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
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Public Domain
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Land owned and controlled by the state or federal government
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Pesticides
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A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects
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Greenhouse Effect
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A similar retention of solar radiation.
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Industry
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Commercial production and sale of goods.
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Ballot
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A sheet of paper or a card used or register a vote especially a secret one.
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Interpreting
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TO explain the meaning of.
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Theocracy
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A government ruled by or subject to religious authority
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NATO
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AN international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
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Islam
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A monotheistic religion chracterized by the acceptance of the doctrine of submission to God and to Muhammad as the cheif and last prophet of God.
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Negotiation
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The act or process of negotiating
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Taxes
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To place a tax on (income, property, or goods)
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Budget
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An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them.
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Casualties
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An accident especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
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Danish
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Of or relating to Denmark, the Danes their language, or their culture.
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Judaism
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The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing its origins to Abraham adn having its spiritual and thical principles.
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Nonprofit
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Not seeking or producing a profit or profits.
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Acid Rain
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Acid precipitation falling as rain
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Supply
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To make or become supple.
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Felony
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One of several grave crimes, such as murder, rape, or burglary, punishable by a more stringent sentence than that given for a misdemeanor.
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Manufacturers
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A person, an enterprise, or an entity that manufactures.
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Forested
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A dense growth of trees, plants, and inderbrush covering a large area.
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Mass
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A unified body of matter with no specific shape.
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Federalist
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An advocate of federalism
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Criminal
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Of, involving, or having the nature of crime.
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Liberty
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The conditions of being free from restiction or control
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Expensive
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Requiring a large expenditure, costly
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Solar.
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Relating to or proceeding from the sun/
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Hungary
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A country in Central Europe.
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Race
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A local global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group.
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Overseas
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Beyond the sea, abroad
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Radon
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Colorless, radioactive inert gaseous element.
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Soldier
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One who serves in an army
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Mark-ups
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A raise in the price of an item for sale
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Nordic
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scandinavia or its people.
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Principles
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A basic truth, law, or assumption
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Pulp
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A soft moist shapeless mass of matter.
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Nationalism
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Devotion to the interests or culture of ones nation.
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Manpower
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The power of human physical strength.
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Eras
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A period of time in which a new order of things prevails a signal stage of history
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Acidified
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To make or become acid.
To sour, to imbitter |
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population
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All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
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Expansion
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The act or process of expanding
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Efficient
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Acting directly to produce an effect.
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Grievance
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An actual or supposed circumstance.
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Congress
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A formal assembly of representatives,
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Curfew
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The time at which such a restriction beings or is in effect
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Reform
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To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects
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Norwegian
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Of or realting to Norway or its people, language, or culture.
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Pollutants
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Something that pollutes, especially a waste material that contaminates air, soil, or water.
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Equal
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Haveing the same quantity
Being the same in value. |
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Patriot
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One who loves, supposts, and defends ones country
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Finland
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Republic in northern Europe
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Censorship
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The act, process, or practice of censoring
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Tourism
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The practiceof traveling for pleasure
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Respect
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To feel ot show deferential regard for, esteem
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Assembly Line
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An arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.
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International
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involving 2 or more nations
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Discrimination
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The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions.
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Spies
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An agent employed by a state to obtain secret information
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Prohibit
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To forbid by authority
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Pension
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A sun if money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.
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Scorned
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To express contempt
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Imports
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To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in from a foreign country for trade or sale.
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Community Service
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Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions.
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Scarcity
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Insufficiency of amount or supply.
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Suburban
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Located or residing in a suburb.
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Smallpox
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A fatal disease.
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State
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A condition or mode of being as with regard to circumstances
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Spirituality
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The state quality manner or fact of being spiritual
The clergy |
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Landfills
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A method of solid waste disposal in which refuse is buried between layers of dirt so as to fill in or reclaim low-lying ground.
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Sales Tax
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A tax levied on the retail price of merchandise and collected by the retailer.
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Potential
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Capable of being but not yet ini existence, latent
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Redress
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TO set right, remedy or recify.
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Advantage
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A beneficial factor or combination of factors.
Benefit or profit gain. |
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Petition
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To make a request, especially formally.
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Timber
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Wood used as building material
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Irrigation
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To supply with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams, water artificially.
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Unit Cost
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The cost of a given unit of a product
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Justice
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The quality of being just, fiarness
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Prosecution
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The act of prosecuting.
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Profits
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An advantageous gain or return, benefit
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Capitalist Economy
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An economic system based on private ownership of capital
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Jury
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Intended or designed for temporary use.
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Rebellion
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Oopen, armed and organized resistance to a constituted government/
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Judicial
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Relating to or proper to courts of law or to the administration of justice.
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Legislative
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Of or relating to the enactment of laws
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Advertising
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The buisness of designing and writing advertisements
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Triangular
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A shape
Involving 3 entities |
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Hinduism
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The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos
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Tariff
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A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
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Ancient
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Of Great age, Very old
Relating to times long past |
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Recommending
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Something that recommends, especially a favorable statement concerning character or qualifications.
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Anarchy
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Absence of any form of political authority
Political disorder and confusion |
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Shortage
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A deficiency in amount an insufficiency
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FBI
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The law enforcement agency in the justice department.
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Civics
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The branch of poliatical science that deals with civic affairs and the rights and duties of citizens
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Plantations
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An area under cultivation.
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Violate
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To break or disregard
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Impartial
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Not partial or biased, unprejudiced
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Exports
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To send or transport abroad, especially for trade or sale.
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Unemployment
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Out of work,
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Trade
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To engage in buying and selling for profit
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Employee
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A person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation
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Cultivation
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Refinement, culture.
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Transcation
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The act of transacting or the fact of being transacted
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Governmental
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The act of process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.
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Modes
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A manner way or methos of doing or acting.
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Illustrate
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to clarify
to present a clarification, example, or explanation. |
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Desertification
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The transformation of arable or habitable land to desert, as by a change in the climate or destructive land use.
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Agriculture
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The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock, farming.
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policy
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A plan or course of action, as of a government, political party, or business, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
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Labor
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A physical or mental exertion.
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Neutral
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Not aligned with, supporting or favoring either side in a war.
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Priority
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Precedence, especially established by order of importance or urgency.
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Taoism
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A principal philosophy and system of religion of china
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Colonize
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To form or establish a colony or colonies in.
To migrate and settle in. |
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Emissions
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The act of an instance of emitting
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Interstate
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Involoving existing between, or connecting 2 or more states
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Embargo
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A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
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Factory Worker
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A worker in a mill or factory
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Expansionism
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A nations practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion.
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Warfare
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The waging of war against anm enemy
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Offshore
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Moving or directed away from the shore
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Enlistment
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To engage for serviuse in the armed forces.
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Wealth
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An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources, riches
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Christianity
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The Christian religion, founded on the life and teachings of Jesus.
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Valor
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Courage and boldness, as in battle, bravery
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Wholesale
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The sale of goods in large quantities as for resale by a retailer
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Life Expectancy
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The number of years that an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics.
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Estonia
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A republic in notheastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
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Witness
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One who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard or experienced.
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Dictatorship
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The office of tenure of a dictator.
A state or government under dictatorial rule. |
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Vandalism
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Willful or malicious destruction of public or private property
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Uprising
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To get up or stand up
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Dams
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A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.
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Compromise
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A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions.
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