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fob
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a chain attached to  a watch for carrying a waistcoat
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Satirist
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From satire, The use of humor, iront, exageraiton, or ridicule to expose and critizice people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
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pontiff
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n. the pope
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fatuity
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something foolish or stupid, stupitity foolishness, archaic, imbecility, dementia
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remonstrance
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N. a forceful reproach protest:

a document drawn up in 1610 by the Arminians of the Dutch Reformed Church, presenting the differences between their doctrines and those of the strict Calvinists.

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prostrate
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adj. lying strethced out on the ground with one's face down
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goading
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v. from goad. provoke or annoy someone so as to stimulate some action or reaction
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steadfast
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adj. resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering
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Dutiful
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adj. conscientioulsy or obediently fulfilling one's duty
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missive
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n. a letter, especially a long or official one
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parsimonious
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adj. unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy  or frugal
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efficacy
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n. the ability to produce a desired or intended result
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amelioration
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n. the act of making something better, improvment
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befall
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v. (of something bad) happen to someone
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proximal
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adj. situated nearer to the center of the body or from the point of attachment
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distal
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adj. situated away from the center of the body or from the point of attachment.
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impinge
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v. have an effect or impact, especially a negative one

"Nora was determined that the tragedy would impinge as little as possible on Constance's life

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noxious
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adj. harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant
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adjective
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a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
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mire
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n. a stretch of swampy or boggy ground, a situation or stats of difficuly, disress, or embarasment from which it is hard to exricate oneself

v. cause o become stuck in the mud

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coupling
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n. a device for connecting parst of machinery, the pairing of two iems
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flank
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n. the side of a person's or animal's body between the ribs and the hip, the right or left side of a body of people such as an army, a naval force, or a soccer team.

v. be situated on each sies of or on one side of

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headlong
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adv & adj. with the head formost, in a ruch with reckless haste

 

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rescind
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v.revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law or agreement)
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reproach
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v. address in such a way as to express disapproval or disappoitment,

n. the expression of disapproval or disappontment

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indomitable
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adj. impossible to dubdue or defeat
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motley
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adj. incongruously varied in apprearance or charater, disparate

n. incongruous mixture

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pore
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v. be absorbed in he reading or study of, think intently, ponder
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succor
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n. assistance  and support in time of hardships and distress

v. give assitance or aid to

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adherence
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from adhere

v. stick fast to, believe in and follow he practics of, represent truthfully in detail

 

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espouse
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v. adopt or support ( a cause , belief, or way of life)
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satiate
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v. another form of sate

adj. satified to the full: satisfied

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sate
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v. satisfy a desire or an appetite to the full, supply
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phalanx
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n. a body of troops or police officers, standing or moving in a close formation
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ubiquitous
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adj. present, appearing, or found everywhere
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spigot
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n. a small peg or plug,especially for insertion into the vent of a cask
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cask
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n. a large barrellike container made of wood, metal or plastic, used for storing liquids, typically achoholic drinks
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lest
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conj. with the intention of preventing (someting undesireable), to avoid the risk of
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roil
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v. to make a liquid turbid or muddy by distrurbing the sediment
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amass
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v. gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of valuable material or things) over a period of time
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gadfly
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n. an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by criticism
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proxy
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n. authority to represent someone else, especially in voting
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candor
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n. the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness
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recast
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v. give a metal object a different form by melting it down and reshaping it
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Hegemony
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n. leadership or dominace, especially by one country or social group over others
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tantamount
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adj. equivalent in seriousness to, virtually the same as
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egalitarian
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adj. of, relating to, believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities

n. a person who advocatres or supports egalitarian principles

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riparian
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adj. of, relating to, or situated on the banks of a river
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accolade
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n. an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit, a touch on a person's shoulders with a sword at the bestowing of a knighthood
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relish
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n. great enjoyment

v. make pleasant to the taste,

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folly
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n. lack of good sence
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peruse
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v. read (something), typic ally in a thorough or carful way
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attache
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n.  a person on the staff of an ambassador, typically with a specialized are of responsiblity
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strafe
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v. attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from a low- flying aircraft
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rue
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v. bitterly regret
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recalcirant
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adj. having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or disciplin
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demarcate
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v. set the boundaries or limits
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prosaic
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adj. having the style or diction of prose, lacking poetic beauty
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thence
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adj. from a place or source previously mentioned
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peremptory
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adj. especially of a person's manner or actions insisting of immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious manner
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bursque
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adj. abrupt or offhand in a speech or manner
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imperious
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adj. assuming power or authority without justification, arrogant and domineering
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ether
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n. a pleasant smelling colorless volatile liquid that is highly flamable, the clear sky, the upper regiouns of air beyond the clouds
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conjecture
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n. an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of  incomplete information

v. form an opinion or a suppostion about something on the basis of incomplete

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reprieve
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v. cancel or postpone the punishment of someone condemned to death

n. cancelation or postponment of a punishment

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vituperation
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n. bitter and abusive language
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semantic
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adj. relating to meaning in language or logic
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antecedents
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n. a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another
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unassailable
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unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated
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duopoly
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n. a situation in which two suppliers dominate the market for a comodity or service
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tumultous
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adj. making a loud, confused noise, uproaring, exited, confused
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partail
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adj. exisiting only in part, incomplete, favoring one side in a dispute above the other, biased
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ensue
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v. happen or occur afterward or as a result
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heterogenity
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diverse,
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attenuated
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adj. unnaturaally thin, weakened in force or effect
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proclivity
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n. a tendancy to choose or do something regularly, an inclination or predisposition
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ubiquitous
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adj. present, apprering, or found everywhere
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vehement
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adj. showing strong feeling, forceful, passionate, or intense
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progenitor
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n. a person or thing form which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates, ancestor or parrent
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culminate
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v. reach a climaz or point of highest development
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diligence
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bn. careful and persistent work or effort
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Licentious
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adj.   promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters, disregarding accpeted rules or conventions
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appropriation
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n. the action of taking something for one's own use, typocally without the owner's permissions
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congeal
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v. solidify, or coagulate expecially by cooling
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coagulate
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v. ( of a fluid, expecially blood) change to a solid or semisolid state
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palatial
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adj. resembling a apace in a spacioous and splendi
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contempt
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n. the felling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, wrothless, or dererving scorn
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pendant
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n. a person whi  excessively concerned with minor details without displaying academic learning
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profane
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adj. relating or devoted to that wchich is not scared or biblical secular rether that religious
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consecrate
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v. make or declare (something, typically a church) sacred, dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose
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efficacy
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n. the ability to produce a desired or intended result
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uncanny
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stange mysterious, especially in an unsettleing way
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contingent
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adj. subject to  chance, occurring or existing only if (certain other circumstance) are the case, dependent on
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emphatically
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in a forceful way
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haecceity
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n. that property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as "this(one)"
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avarice
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n. extreme greed for wealth or material gain
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subsistence
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n. the action or fact of manufacturing or supporting oneself at a minimum level, the state of remaining in force or effect
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predicate
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n. the part of a sentence or cluase containing a verb and stating something about the subject

v.

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caveat
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n. a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
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veracity
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conformity to fact, accuracy
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illict
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forbidden by law, rule, or custom
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inert
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adj. lacking the ability or strenght to move
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locution
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n. a word or phrase, esspecially with regard to style or idiom,

an utterance regarded in terms of its untrinsic meaning or refereance as distinct from its function or purpose in context

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malleable
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adj. (of a metal with other material) able to be hammered or pressed permenently out of shape without breaking or craking
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pliable
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adj. easily bent, flexible, easily influenced
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torpid
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inactive or sluggish, slow, dull, apathetic lethargic
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regression
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a return to a former less developed state
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adverbial
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describing or gives more information about another word, like or relating to an adverb
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tenacious
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adj. not easily stopped or pulled apart, firm or strong, continuing for a long time, very determined to do something.
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duress
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threats, violence, constrainsm, or other action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will or better jugdement
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tantamount
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equivallent in seriousness to, virtually the same
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licentious
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prommiscouous and unprincipled in sexual matters
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pliant
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pliable
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pliable
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easily bent
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alluded
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suggest or call attention to indireclty, hint at
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sparse
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thinly dispersed or scattered
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plight
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a dangerouse, difficult or otherwise unfortunate situation
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daconian
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(of laws and their application) excessively harsh and severe
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rove
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travel constantly without a fixed destination wander
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disdain
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the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect, contempt
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egregious
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adj. outstandigly bad shocking
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coefficient
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a numerical or constant quantity placed before and multiplying the variable in an algebraic equation 

(e.g., 4 in 4x y)

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precipitate
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cause an event or situation, typically one that is bad or undesierabel to happen suddenly
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tantalize
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v. torment or tease someone withthe dithgt or pormise of somthing that is unobtainable.
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mire
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a situation or stat of difficulty, distressm or embarassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself.
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quagmire
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an akward, complex, or hazardous situation
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foment
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instigate or stir up and undesireable or violent sentiment or cousre of action
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linchpin
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a person or thing vital to an enterprice or organization.
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abberation
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n. a departure from what is normal, usural or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
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nuance
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a sublte difference in or chage of meaning, expression or sound.
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repertiore
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a stock of place, dances or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
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anomalous
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adj. deviating from twwhat is standard, normal , or expected
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silo
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isolate one system, process, department from others
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yawn
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wide, open
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diatribe
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n. a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
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prudent
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adj. acting with or showing care and thought for the future
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equanimity
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n. mental calmness, composure, and eveness of temre, expecially in a difficult situation
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keen
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having or showing enthusiasim or eagerness
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delve
Definition
reach inside a receptacle and search for something
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Intertemporal
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an economic term describing how an individuals current decions affects what option become available in the future. Theoretically, by not consuming levels coudl increaes significanly in the future
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denigrate
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v. criticize unfailiy, disparage
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chicanery

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v. employ tickery
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epistemology
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the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. It is the investigation of what distinguished justified belief from opinion.
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diorama

 

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n. a model representing a scene with three- dimensional figues, wither in miniature or as a large-sclae museum exhibit
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wean
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v. accustom (aninfant or other young mammal) to food other than it mother's milk
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reductionism
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n. the practice of analyzing and describing a complex terms of phenomena that are held to re
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dyad
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n. something that consists of two wlwments or parts
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crisis of modernity
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although we have situated ourselves with techonological advances there is still the concept of problem that arise despite our advancement. These can include the obesity from he stagnation, or diabetes from over consumption. The current situation is filled with ingnorance to this fact but the inevitable will soon be realized that this world is finite and the conceptions of infinite resoureces on this planet are not possible.
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epigone
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n. a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artiest or poihlosophyuer
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butress
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v. increase the strength of or justification for, reinforce
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forya
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n. a sudden attack of incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something, a raid
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Aporia
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an irresolvable internal contradicaion or logical disjunction in a text, argument or theory.
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zetetic
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adj. proceeding by inquiry
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inquiry
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n. an act of asking for information
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cacophony
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n. a harch, discount mixture of sounds
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Ineluctable
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unabled to be resisted or avoided
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syncretism
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a union or attemped fusion of different religions, cultures or philosophies
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o0ntology
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n. the branch of metaphysics dealing with the natyure of being
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metaphysics
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n. the branch of philsoophy that deals with the first principle of thing, including abstract cnceptrs such as veing knowing, substancem causem identitym time and space.
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presupposition
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a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the begining of a line of arguemtn or course of action
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animadversion
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n. criticism or censure
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macabre
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adj. disturbing and horrifying because of involvemnent with or depicteion of death and injury
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lieu
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instread, as a substitute for
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specious
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apparently sound and reasonable, but fallacious
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tort
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n. a wrongfull act or an unfringement of a right other than under contract leading to a civil legal liability
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impecunious
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adj. having little or no money
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prorate
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allocate, distribute, or assess pro rata
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endogenous
Definition
having an internal cause or origin.
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maven
Definition
an expert or connoisser
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disparate
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essentially different in kind, not allowing comparison
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trusim
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a statment that is obviously true that contributes notheing new
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innocuous
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not harmfull or offensive
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laden
Definition
heavly loaded or weighed down
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iteration
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repetition of a process or utterance
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cumbersome
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large or heavy and therefore difficult to use, unweildly
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altruistic
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showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish
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mawkish
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sickening or nauseatin, overly emotiona or exessivly sentimental
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maxim
Definition
general truth that someone lives by, a rule or conduct, a proverb
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meager
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meek or feeble, inadeqate, deficient in quantity, less than is needed or necessary
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meander
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to walk slowly and without purpose or without direction. to folow a winding path, to randomly wander
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melancholy
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feeling of sadness, depression, and or being without hope, typically with no obvious case
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menagerie
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a collection of animasl that are kept in acages and exhibited for the public, a place where a collevetion of animals is kept, a diverse group
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mendacious
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deceptive and untruthful, false, lying
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mercurial
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changning mood or opinion unexpectedly, suddently and often, volatile erratice unstable
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viscera
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n. the internal organs in the main cavaties of the body, especially thosein the abdomen, intestine
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capricious
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adj. given to sudden and unaccounatble changes of mood or behavior
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juxtapose
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v. place or deal with close together for contrasting effect
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inocluate
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v. treat a person or animal with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease
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temperance
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moderation or self-restraint, especially in eating and drinking
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fortitude
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courage in pain and adversity
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advent
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n. the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event
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adage
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n. a proverb or short statment expressing a general truth
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aegis
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n. the protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization
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audacity
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n. the willingness to take bold risks, rude or disrespectful behavior, imprudence
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endogenous
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adj. having an internal cause or origin
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balk
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v. hesitate, or be unwilling to accpt an idea or undertaking
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tenet
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n. a principle or belief, especially one of the main princilples of a religion or philosophy
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appelation
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n. a name or title
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antithetical
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adj. directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible
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outset
Definition
the start or begining of something
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Malthusian trap
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the theory that the world's populations will increase to out pace agricultural progress
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emphatically
Definition
without a doubt, in a forceful way
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speculators
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sophisticated , risktaking investors with the expertise in the market in which they are trading and will usually use high leverage investements such as futures and options.
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contrive
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to bring about with skillfull  by deliberate use of skill and artifice
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pagoda
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a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.
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begrudge

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to think that someone does not deserve something, to regard something at to not being desreved.
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triune
Definition
consisting of three in one (used especially with reference to the Trinity).
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pedagogy
Definition
the theory and practices of education
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ahderents
Definition
someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas.
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vie
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v. compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something
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ebb
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the moement of the tide out to sea
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tacit
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understood without being stated
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dubious
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hesitating or doubting
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impetus
Definition
the force or enrgy with which a body moves
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plight
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a dngerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation
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tantamount
Definition
equvallent in seriousness to, virtually the same as
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