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| -verb- to abolish by formal or official means / annul by an authoritative act |
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| -adj- cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious |
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| -noun- a mixture or combination |
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| -noun- a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form |
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-adj- preceding; prior: 'an antecedent event.'
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| -verb- to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust |
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| -noun- any strong or comprehensive attack, as by criticism. |
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| -noun- a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc./a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. |
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| -adj- pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: 'The voters are too complacent to change the government.' |
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| -adj- having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect: a man of compelling integrity;' a compelling drama.' |
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| -verb- To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole. |
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| -adj- causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues./tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew. |
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| -verb- to regret deeply or strongly; lament: 'to deplore the present state of morality.' |
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| -noun- a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
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| -verb- to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote./ to deprive of a franchise, privilege, or right. |
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| -adj- indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute. |
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| -adj- conferring new legal powers or capacities, esp. by removing a disability; having the right to license or regulate: an enabling act; enabling power. |
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| -noun- a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc./ a misleading or unsound argument/Logic. any of various types of erroneous reasoning that render arguments logically unsound. |
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| -noun- care or provision for the future; provident care;' prudence.' |
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| -noun- The state or quality of being grainy or granular/The state or quality of being composed of many individual pieces or elements. |
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| -noun- The theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts/(Psychology) any psychologic system postulating that the human mind must be studied as a unit rather than as a sum of its individual parts. |
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| -noun- incorporating the concept of holism in theory or practice: holistic psychology/identifying with principles of holism in a system of therapeutics, esp. one considered outside the mainstream of scientific medicine, as naturopathy or chiropractic, and usually involving nutritional measures. |
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| -noun- a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual. |
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| -noun- a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock. |
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| -noun- An individual that is responsible for a specific office within a corporation. |
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| -adj- originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often fol. by to) |
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| -noun- an argument whose stated premises fail to support their proposed conclusion. |
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| -adj- existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute |
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| -adj- (Biology) different in ancestry, but having the same form or appearance. / (Mathematics) pertaining to two sets related by an --------ism. |
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| -noun- a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh. |
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| -noun- a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation |
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| -adj- in a dying state; near death/ on the verge of extinction or termination/ not progressing or advancing; stagnant |
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| -adj- having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous. |
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| -noun- patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics |
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| -noun- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat./ a person of very good background, education, and refinement. |
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| -noun- a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault. |
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| -adj- having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations |
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| -noun- The principle or practice of unselfish concern for or the devotion to the welfare of others |
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-noun- a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk. / a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner/ the action of going forward or on
-verb- to treat or prepare by some particular process, as in manufacturing. |
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| -adj- utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute. |
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| -verb- to present, esp. deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely |
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| -noun- plural -ties. appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; suitability/ rightness or justness. |
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| -adj- characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
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| -noun- a situation from which extrication is very difficult/an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog. |
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| -noun- access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice./ a person or thing resorted to for help or protection./ the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. |
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| -adj- confident of one's own righteousness, esp. when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others. |
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| -noun- slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude. |
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| -noun- A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. |
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| -verb- to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect./to weaken or cause to collapse by removing underlying support, as by digging away or eroding the foundation. |
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| -adj- relating to, occurring on, or involving one side only: unilateral development; a unilateral approach. |
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| -adj- of, pertaining to, characterized by, or aiming toward unity: the unitary principles of nationalism. |
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| -noun- describes homologous characters of organisms that have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species through evolution |
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| -noun- something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism. |
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| a social or political issue, often of a divisive or otherwise controversial nature, which splits apart or creates a "wedge" in the support base of one political group. Wedge issues can be advertised, publicly aired, and otherwise emphasized by an opposing political group, in an attempt to weaken the unity of the divided group, or to entice voters in the divided group to give their support to the opposing group. The use of wedge issues gives rise to wedge politics. |
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| -noun- something that discourages or deters; deterrent: |
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| -noun- an attitude toward something; regard; opinion. |
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| Research that derives its data by means of direct observation or experiment. Such research is used to answer a question or test a hypothesis. The results are based upon actual evidence as opposed to theory or conjecture, as such they ca be replicated in follow-up studies. |
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| -noun- excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance |
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| -verb- to place, put or set |
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| -noun- something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc |
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| -noun- held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable; 'a reputable organization' |
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| -noun- estimation in the view of others; favorable reputation; good name; public respect; reputation: 'persons of good repute' |
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-verb- To find fault with; blame; censure;
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-noun- blame or censure conveyed in dissaproval |
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-adj- conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright
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-adj- of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical
-noun- the teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc. |
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| -noun- the body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular culture or group |
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-noun- a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government
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-noun- a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice
-verb- to ostracize |
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-verb- to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.
to banish (a person) from his or her native country; expatriate |
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| -verb- to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically. |
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| -adj- without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled |
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| –verb (used without object)to shatter, burst, or become broken; separate into parts or fragments, esp. suddenly and violently |
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-noun- an example serving as a model; pattern.
(in the philosophy of science) a very general conception of the nature of scientific endeavour within which a given enquiry is undertaken |
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-verb- to take the place of; replace; supplant
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overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching. |
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| an informal logical fallacy in which it is argued that the amount of time, effort, or money already invested in a project justifies the investment of yet more time, effort and money in order to complete the project. |
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-noun- the forcible seizure of property or subjects in retaliation.
(in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries. |
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| -adj- causing or tending to cause sleep |
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-adj- gruesome; horrible; revolting
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