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Beleaguered

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Beset with difficulties

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Entrepreneurs

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An individual who organizes and operates their own business

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Aristocratic

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A form of government in which the power is in the hands of a small and privileged class

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Vagrancy

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The state of being homeless

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Debacle

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Sudden or extreme failure

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth and money

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Vice

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Behavior that is considered immoral or degrading

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Husbandry

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The cultivation of crops and raising of livestock

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Demographics

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The statistical plot and information of a population

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Misogynistic

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The hatred of women

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Dispersed

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To scatter or spread out

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Mortality rate

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The death rate of in a population

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Benign

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Having a kindly disposition, seemingly harmless

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Latent

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Present but not visible, existing potential

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Catalyst

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A person or thing that precipitates a change

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Conspicuously

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Easily seen or noticed

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Orthodoxy

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The authorized or given belief

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Enumerated

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Mentioned separately or listed in order

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Unicameral

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Consisting of a single chamber, as of legislature

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Habeas Corpus

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A writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court (to avoid unfair imprisonment)

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Dissident

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Someone who disagrees

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Proprietorship

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A person who has an exclusive right or titles to something, ownership rights (property)

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Homogeneous

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Composed of parts or elements that all are of the same kind

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Embedded

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Fixed or retained into something

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Incurred

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To come into or acquire

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Proxy

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A written authorization empowering another person to vote, represent, or act for the signer

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Wary

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Feeling or showing caution about possible danger or problems

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Arable

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Suitable for growing crops

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Dispelled

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To make a doubt, feeling, or belief disappear

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Heterogeneous

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Diverse in character or content

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Squatters

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A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land

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Precarious

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Exposed to or involving danger, uncontrollable

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Encroach

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To trespass the domain, property, or rights of another person

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Emulate

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To rival with some degree of success

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Augment

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To make larger

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Aggregate

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Formed by the conjunction or collection or particulars into a whole

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Solvent

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Able to pay one’s debts

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Itinerant

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A person who travels from place to place

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Burgeoning

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Being to grow or increase rapidly, flourish

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Demerit

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A mark awarded against someone for a fault or offense

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Autocratic

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Pertaining to the form of government in which a small group of people hold all of the power

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Chicanery

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Trickery or deception

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Repel

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To drive or force back

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Indolent

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Having or showing disposition to avoid exertion, lazy or sluggish

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Accede

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Assent or agree to a demand, request, or treaty

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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

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Terrain

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A stretch of land, with regard to its physical features

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Cessation

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The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end

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Predatory

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Relating to or denoting an animal or person seeking to exploit others

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Vigilantes

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Self appointed group that undertakes law enforcement without legal authority

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely to pacify

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(burned in) Effigy

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A representation or a person that is usually burned or hanged to make an example of someone or something

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Rescind

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To revoke, cancel, or repeal

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Ideologue

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Someone who is uncompromising and dogmatic

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Intrepid

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Fearless, adventurous

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Mercenaries

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Professional soldiers hired to serve in a foreign army

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Poignant

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Evoking a strong emotional response

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Untenable

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Unable to maintain or defend from attack

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Clandestine

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Secret, done secretly

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Guerilla

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A member or an irregular military force that fights a stronger regular force

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Partisan

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A supporter of a party, cause, or person

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Licentiousness

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Lacking moral discipline or legal restraint

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Anarchy

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A state or society without government or law

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Pacify

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To bring or restore to a state or peace

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Recede

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To go or move away, retreat

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Unmolested

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To have not been bothered or annoyed, left in peace

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Enamored

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To charm or captivate

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Debilitate

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To make weak or feeble

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Depreciate

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To reduce the purchasing value of

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Belittle

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To regard or portray as less impressive or important than the appearance indicated

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Evocative

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Bringing strong images, memories, and feelings to mind

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Ferreted

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To search tenaciously for and find something

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Ferment

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To incite or stir up (trouble or disorder)

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Imperious

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Assuming power or authority without justification

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Viable

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Capable of living, growing, or developing

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Inherent

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Existing as a permanent, essential, or characteristic

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Vociferous

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Expressing opinions in a very loud and forceful way

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Fiscal

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Of or pertaining to the public treasuries or revenue

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Sovereignty

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Being able to govern one’s self

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Quorum

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The smallest number of people who must be present at a meeting in order for a decision to be made

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Buoyant

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Capable of maintaining a satisfactory level, happy or cheerful

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Mired

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To become involved with difficulties

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Insurgents

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A person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, rebel

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Impasse

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A situation in which no progress is possible

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Harbinger

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A person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

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Recalcitrant

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Having an uncooperative attitude toward authority

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Mollify

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To soften in feeling or temper, pacify or appease

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Dismember

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To separate into smaller parts

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Urbanity

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Refinement and elegance of manner

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Arduous

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Involving or requiring strenuous effort, difficult or hard to do

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Despotism

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Ruling with no concern for the people you rule

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Posterity

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Descendants, future generations

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Agrarian

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Of or relating to the cultivation of land

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Intrusive

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Causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome

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Crass

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Rude, beneath one’s dignity

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Dialect

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The art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions

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Patronage

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Tje power to male appointments to government jobs (especially for political advantage

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Bureaucracy

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The body of officials and administrators in a government department

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand

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Belligerents

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A nation or persons engaged in war

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Insolence

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Rude and disrespectful behavior

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Faction

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A group within a larger organization, company, or government

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Voracious

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Very eager or avid

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Vilify

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To write or speak ill of

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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

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Disseminate

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To spread out or disperse

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Nullify

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To render or declare legally void or null

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Logjam

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A situation that seems irresolvable

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Perpetuate

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To continue or endure forever, everlasting

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Precedent

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An earlier event or action that sets an example for others

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Succession

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The order of leadership

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Municipal

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Of or relating to a city or town and its governing body

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Tactical

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Small-scale actions serving a larger purpose

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Autonomy

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Self-government

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Disparaging

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To belittle or bring reproach upon

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Incite

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To stir up or encourage (violent or unlawful behavior)

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Prescribed

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To forbid or make something illegal

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Repugnant

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Extremely distasteful

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve ones goals

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Audacious

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Showing willingness to take bold risks

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Egalitarian

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Believing in the principle that all people are equal

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Maritime

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Connected with the sea or other bodies of water

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Dissension

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Disagreement that leads to a discord of opinions

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Imprudent

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Not showing care for the consequences of an action

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Extortion

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The practice of obtaining something

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Repudiate

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To reject as having no authority or binding force

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Vacillate

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To waver in mind or opinion, indecisive

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Repellent

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Causing disgust or distate

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Embargo

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An official ban on trade or other commercial activities with another country

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Reapportionment

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The redistribution of representation in a legislature

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely with little interest or care

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Berate

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Scold or criticize angrily

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Flora & Fauna

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Plants and animals of a particular region

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Odious

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Highly offensive

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Sycophant

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A self-seeking flatterer

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Pragmatism

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Having a practical approach to problems and affairs

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Disingenuous

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Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than they really do. Not truthful

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Sedition

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The crime or saying or writing something that encourages people to rebel against their government

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Enfranchised

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Giving the right to vote to

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Ascendance

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The act of rising or moving up

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Insurrection

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A violent uprising against an authority or government

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Bonanza

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A source or great and sudden wealth or luck

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Eradicate

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Destroy completely

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Tacitly

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Implied but not expressed

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Lurid

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Causing horror or revulsion

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Fledgling

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Someone who is inexperienced

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Contested

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To make something the subject of an argument, saying you don’t agree with something

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Malefactor

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Someone who commits a crime or other wrong doing

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Adroit

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Having or showing skill, cleverness, of resourcefulness in certain situations

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Dire

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Urgent, desperate

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Graft

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Gain through questionable ways

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Waned

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To decrease in power or extent, weaken

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Referendum

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A public vote on a particular issues

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Extolled

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To praise enthusiastically

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Sublime

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Of such excellence that it inspires awe

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Routed

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To defeat and cause retreat in disorder

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Conscription

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The practice of obtaining people by law to serve in the armed forces

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Procuring

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To obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means

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Locus

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The main point or focus

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Fervid

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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate

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Indissoluble

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Incapable of being broken or undone

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Stymied

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To hinder, block, or thwart

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Tenuous

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Flimsy or weak

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Immune

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Protect or except from the effects of something

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Emissary

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A person who is sent on a mission to represent another person or organization

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Lame-Duck

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An official whose time in an office or position will end soon

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Disaffection

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Being dissatisfied

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Acquiesce

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To accept reluctantly without protest

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Tenure

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The amount of time that a person holds a job or office position

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Infringe

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To trespass or violate

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Ostentatious

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Meant to attract attention , usually by displaying one’s wealth

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Bawdy

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Humorously indecent talk or writing

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Charlatan

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A person who pretends to know something in order to deceive people

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Affable

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Friendly, easy to approach

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Contracted

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To reduce or lessen the supply of

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Buffeted

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To drive, force, move, or attack by or as if by repeated blows

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Transients

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People who stay at a work place for a short period of time

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Meted

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Given out by measure, to allot

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Appropriations

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Authorization of money to be used for a specific purpose

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Reciprocity

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The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit

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Prototype

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An original model of something in which others are formed

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect that usually happens gradually

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Pluralistic

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A state of society in which members of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization

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Destitution

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Poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for themselves

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Prodigious

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Amazing or wonderful, impressive

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Degeneracy

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Having low moral standards, not honest or good

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Espoused

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To make something one’s own, adopt or embrace

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Chattel

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Personal possession, property other than real estate

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Lascivious

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Feeling or revealing an often offensive sexual desire

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Mores

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Fixed or binding customs of a particular group of people

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Wards

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People or a person under the protection of the government

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Monied

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Having much money or wealth

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Mandates

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An official order to do something

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Quell

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To thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity

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Docile

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Easily managed or handled

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Waxed

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To increase in size, numbers, or strength

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Defunct

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No longer existing or functioning

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Wily

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Full of clever tricks

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Tempered

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Made less violent, especially by the influence of something benign

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Philanthropy

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The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed esp. especially by the donation of money to others

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Rebates

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secret, privately negotiated reductions below the published rates

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Magnate

A

A person of great power, rank, or influence

203
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Wanton

A

A cruel or violent action that is deliberate and unprovoked

204
Q

GNP

A

Total money value of all goods and services produced in a year

205
Q

Acquisitive

A

Having a strong desire to own more things

206
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Pell-Mell

A

In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner

207
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Centenary

A

The hundredth anniversary or a significant event

208
Q

Proliferate

A

To increase in amount or number quickly

209
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Disparaging

A

To describe as weak or unimportant

210
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Deficit

A

The amount by which something, usually money, is too small

211
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Propelled

A

Pushed or driven forward by a force

212
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Schism

A

A division among members of a group due to a difference of opinions

213
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Municipal

A

Of or relating to a city or town and its governing body

214
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Armaments/Munitions

A

Military weapons or equipment

215
Q

Jingoism

A

Extreme patriotism, often in the form of an aggressive foreign policy

216
Q

Junta

A

An administrative council, especially in Latin America

217
Q

Lettered

A

Educated or learned

218
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Insular

A

Ignorant or unaccepting of other cultures outside one’s own knowledge

219
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Tutelage

A

Protection of or having authority over

220
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Amnesty

A

A decision that a group of people will not be punished for a wrong doing

221
Q

Restive

A

Uneasy, restless

222
Q

Nettlesome

A

Causing annoyance or difficulty

223
Q

Impregnable

A

Not able to be captured by attack, very strong

224
Q

Aberration

A

Something that is unusual or unexpected

225
Q

Syndicate

A

When a group of businesses work together for mutual benefit

226
Q

Steward

A

Someone who takes care or the land or property of another person

227
Q

Paucity

A

Smallest in number or quantity, an amount that is less than desired

228
Q

Befuddled

A

Confused, perplexed

229
Q

Strident

A

Loud and hash, unpleasant sounding

230
Q

Adulterated

A

To make something weak by adding a substance of poor quality (food)

231
Q

Arbitration

A

The hearing and determining of a dispute or the settling of differences between parties by a third person or persons chosen or agreed to by them

232
Q

Disparate

A

Different from each other

233
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Relativism

A

The doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.

234
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Ardent

A

Having or showing strong feelings

235
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Peonage

A

The practice of holding someone to servitude to work off a debt or serve as a penal sentence

236
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Oligopoly

A

A situation in which a small amount of businesses control the market and can regulate prices, etc.

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