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Question 1

Activism

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The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations

Question 2

Esoteric

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Understood by or intended for only a few; secret

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Undermine

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Weaken, cause to collapse by digging away at the foundation (of a building or an argument); injure or attack in a secretive or underhanded way

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Debunk

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Expose, ridicule, or disprove false or exaggerated claims

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Surmise

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Guess, infer, opine

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Slight

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Small, not very important, slender or delicate (adj); treat as though not very important; snub, ignore (verb); an act of treating in this way; a discourtesy

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Hackneyed

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So commonplace as to be stale; not fresh or original

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Contentious

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Controversial; prone to causing arguments, especially gratuitous or petty ones

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Ranks

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Personnel; a group of people considered all together

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Cogent

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Very convincing, logical

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Pretentious

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Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when unjustified; showing off, creating a deceptive, false show of worth

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Aver

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Declare or affirm with confidence, say

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Outstrip

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Surpass, exceed; be larger or better than; leave behind

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Abate

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Reduce, diminish

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Exculpate

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Clear from guilt or blame

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Debase

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Degrade; lower in quality, value, rank, etc.; lower in moral quality

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Skeptic

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Person inclined to doubting or questioning generally accepted beliefs

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Copious

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Plentiful, bountiful

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Fanatical

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Excessively devoted, enthusiastic or zealous in an uncritical way

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time

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Bogus

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Fake, fraudulent

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Reap

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Harvest, such as by cutting; gather; get as a result of one’s effort

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Fringe

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On the margin, periphery (adj); the people in a group who hold the most extreme views (noun)

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Gawky

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Physically awkward (eps. of a tall, skinny person, often used to describe teenagers)

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Hearken

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Listen, pay attention

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Gradation

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A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages

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Eloquent

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Marked by forceful, fluid, apt speech; expressive, emotionally moving

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Fanciful

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Whimsical, capricious; imaginary; freely imaginative rather than based on reason or reality

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Garrulous

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Talkative, wordy, rambling

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Eglitarian

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Related to belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social spheres

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Goosebumps

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The "bumps" created by hairs standing up on the skin in response to cold, fear, etc.

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Futile

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Producing no useful result, ineffective; trivial or unimportant

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Gainsay

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Declare false, deny; oppose

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Extrapolate

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Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known; predict by projecting past experience

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Exacting

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Very severe in making demands; requiring precise attention

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Foreshadow

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Indicate or suggest beforehand, presage

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Fleeting

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Passing quickly, transitory

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Hierarchy

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A ranked series; a classification of people according to rank, ability, etc.; a ruling body

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Feasible

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Possible; logical or likely; suitable

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Enumerate

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Count of list; specify one-by-one

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Erroneous

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Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect

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Forment

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Incite, instigate, stir up, promote the growth of; apply medicated liquid to a body part

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Emulate

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Copy in an attempt to equal or be better than

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image

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Exhaustive

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Comprehensive, thorough, exhausting a topic or subject, accounting for all possibilities; draining, tending to exhaust

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Guile

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Clever deceit, cunning, craftiness

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Eclipse

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The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (noun); to obscure, darken, make less important (verb)

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration for effect

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Embellish

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Decorate, add ornamentation; enhance (a story) with fictional or fanciful details

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Explicit

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Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly detecting sex o nudity

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Elated

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Very happy, in high spirits

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Eminent

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Prominent, distinguished, of high rank

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Figurative

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Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; containing many figures of speech (as fancy-sounding writing); related to portraying human or animal figures, as opposed to abstract objects

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Flag

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Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop

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Heterogeneous

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Different in type, incongruous; composed of different types of elements

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Erudite

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Scholarly, knowledgable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge

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Ephemeral

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Lasting only a short time, fleeting

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Equitable

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Fair, equal, just