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Resistance

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Refusal to accept something new such as plan, idea or change

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Conspiracy

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A secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal

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Advocate

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A person who strongly and publicly supports someone or something

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Denomination

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The value of a particular coin or banknote

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Hassle

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Something that causes problems for you or that annoys you very much

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To outweight

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To be more important useful or valuable than something else

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Shadow economy

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Illicit economic activity existing alongside a country´s official economy (black market)

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Death knell

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An event or situation that is a sign of the end of something

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To budget

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To plan the way you spend the money you have, especially so that you do not spend too much

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To demonize

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To describe someone or something as very bad or dangerous although they are not

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Migrant

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A person who moves between countries to find work

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To promt

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To make somebody do something or to cause something to happen

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Disability

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A physical or mental condition that means you cannot use a part of your body completely or easily, or that you cannot learn easily

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Grave

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Serious

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To follow suit

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To do the same

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Tax revenues

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The money that the government receives from taxes

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A badge

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A small piece of metal or plastic, with a design or words on it, that a person wears to show

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Promted an outry

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Cause people to protest

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To shatter

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To break; to cause something to stop existing

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Barrier

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Obstacle; hindrance

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Illustrated

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Containing pictures or other graphical material

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Suffocate

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To cause to die or vanish

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To follow suit

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To do the same as someone else

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Sport analyst

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A person who conducts analysis (that is examines the elements and structure of N.B.A)

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Outpouring

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A flood, stream of

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League executive

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The person with senior managerial responsibility in the league

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So suffocate

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To die or vanish

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To post

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To make information available on the internet

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To issue

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To formally send out

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To citie

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To mention, refer to

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Free agent

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A sports player who is not bound by a contract and so is eligible to join any team

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To carve a niche

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An are in which someone can use their abilities

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To draft

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To choose someone for a special task

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To allude to

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To hing; to suggest

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Genuine

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Honest and sincere

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Authentic

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Genuine; real

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Disclosure

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Making new or secret information known (afhjúpun)

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To divulge

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To make known private or sensitive information (segja frá)

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Groundbreaking

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Something very new and a big change from another things of its type

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Eloquent

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Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

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Cerebral

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Intellectual rather than emotional or physical

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Orientation

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Your sexual preference/sexual inclination

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Subtle

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Not very noticeable or obvious

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Solidarity

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Support one person or a group of people for another because they share feelings, opinions, aims

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Custom

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Made or done to order; custom made

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Jersey

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A shirt that is worn by a member of a sports team

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To scout

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To look for people to that would fit into the team

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Flux

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Continuous movement and change

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Conservative

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Disliking change and holding traditional values

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50
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Justice

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A judge or magistrate, in particular judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state

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To alter

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To change

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Opinion polls

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An assessment of public opinion by questioning a representative sample

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To favour

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To support or like something

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Homophobic

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Having fear of homosexuality

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Amid

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In the middle of

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En masse

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In group; all together

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Advocacy

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Public support for a particular cause or policy

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Comprehensive

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Including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something

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Rookie

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A person who is new to an organization or an activity

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Veteran

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A person who has a lot of experience of a particular activity

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Clan

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A large family

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Congressman

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A man who belongs to a congress, especially a member of the US Congress (þingmaður)

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Parade

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A public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event

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To march

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To walk along public roads in an organized procession as form of protest

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To take a stand

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To make clear your opinion on something

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Era

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A period of time

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Drone

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An aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground

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Fully-fledged

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Completely developed

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Implication

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A possible result of an action or decision

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To conceive of

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To imagine or create something in your mind, to come up with an idea

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Insurgent

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A person fighting against the government or armed forces of their own country

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To scuttle about

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To move quickly

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73
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Intelligence

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Secret information about the enemy

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Reconnaissance

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The activity of getting information about an area for military purpose

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Locust

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A large insect that lives in hot countries and flies in large groups. It can destroy all the plants and crops of an area

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Swarm (v + n)

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A large group of insects moving together

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Kinetic energy

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Energy associated with movement and motion

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Profound

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Very serious

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Game-changer

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A person, an idea or event that completely changes the way a situation develops

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Robotics

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The science of designing and operating robots

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Tactics

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Moving soldiers and military equipment around during a battle or war in order to use them in the most effective way

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Doctrine

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A government policy or a set of political beliefs

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Ethics

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Moral values

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Anti-personnel landmines

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Bombs placed under the ground, designed to harm or kill people

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Autonomous

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Able to control itself

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To unleash

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To allow something powerful to happen

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Mere

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A word you use to emphasize how unimportant or small something is

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Repulsive

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Disgusting

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Concept

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An idea

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To comply with

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To obey a rule or an order

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Rules of engagement

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The rules that govern how wars are conducted

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Atrocity

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A cruel and violent act, especially in war

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Non-combatant casualties

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Injuries that happen to ordinary civilians, not soldiers

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Judicious

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Careful and sensible, showing good judgement

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Lobbyist

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Someone whose job is to influence government policy

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To proliferate

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To increase rapidly; to grow slowly

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Disservice

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To do something that harms someone

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To slaughter

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To kill

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Conventional

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Traditional

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To engage

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To begin fighting

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Intervention

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To become involved in a situation to try and help

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To emerge

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To appear

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To deploy

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To move soldiers or weapons into position where they are ready for military action

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Moratorium

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An officially agreed temporary ban

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To oppose

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To fight against something

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Cryptocurrency

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Any system of electronic money, used for buying and selling online and without the need for a central bank

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Inception

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Beginning / start

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Bubble

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Economic growth that is extremely good for a short period of time but is unlikely to last

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To sidestep

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To avoid

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To encrypt (something)

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To put information into a special code, especially in order to prevent people from looking at it without authority

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A medium of exchange

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Currency

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Boom and bust tendencies

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Highs and low

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To surge

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To rise / increase rapidly

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Wipe out

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Destroy completely

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Cautionary

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Warning somebody to be careful

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A vehicle for something

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Something that can be used to express your ideas or feelings or as a way of achieving something

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Scammer

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A person who commits fraud or participates in a dishonest scheme

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Crook

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A dishonest person

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Anarchism

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The belief that there should be no government or laws

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For good measure

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A way of making something complete or better

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Sidestep

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Avoid

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Parallel

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Similar to

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Banknote

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A piece of paper money

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Monopoly

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Having a complete control over something so other organization cannot compete with

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Sweeping

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Wide-ranging / having a major effect

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Akin to

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Similar to

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Estimate

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A judgement that you make without having the exact details or figures about the size, amount, cost etc. of something

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Blockchain

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Blockchain makes each individual piece of data only be able to have one owner

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Market capitalization

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The value of a company that is traded on the stock market

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Asset

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An item of property

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Utility

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Usefulness

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Held in high regard

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Respected and valued

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Modest

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Not very large, expensive, important etc.

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Moderately

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Fairly but not very

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Upside

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The more positive aspect of a situation that is generally bad

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Has been shot

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Has been getting rid of

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Burned

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Lost money, suffered a loss

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Speculative investment

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High-risk investment with the purchaser being more interested in price fluctuations than fundamental/real value

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Niche asset

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A very specific benefit for a small number of people

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Unchaperoned

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Unsupervised

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Landline

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A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless

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Generational

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Connected with particular generation or with the relationship between different generations

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Doctoral

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Relating to or designed to achieve a doctorate

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Line graph

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A diagram of lines made by connected data points which represent successive changes in the value of variable quantity or quantities

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Abrupt

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Sudden or unexpected

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Blip

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An unexpected, minor, and typically temporary deviation from a general trend

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Millennial

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People who became adults around the year 2000

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Recession

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A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced

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Surpass

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Exceed; be greater than

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Pore over

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To read or study something very carefully

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Concomitant

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Happening at the same time as something else

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Advent of

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The time when something begins or arrives

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Hand-wringing

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The clasping together and squeezing of one´s hands, especially when distressed or worried

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Deleterious

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Damaging or harmful

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To curtail

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To reduce or limit

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Markedly

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In a way that is easy to notice

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Predecessor

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A thing/person that has been followed or replaced by another

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Skyrocket

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To increase quickly to a very high level or amount

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On the brink

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Being almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation

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Decade

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A period of 10 years

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Crisis

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A difficult or a dangerous situation that needs serious attention

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Deterioration

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The act or process of becoming worse

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Magnitude

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The great size or importance of something

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Compelling

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That makes you thing it is true

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Profound

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Very great

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Allure

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Power to attract

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To hold sway

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To have power or a very strong influence

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Shift

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A change in position or dierction

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Decline

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Continuous decrease in the number, value, quality of something

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Contribute

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To be one of the causes of something

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Adolescent

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A young person who is developing into an adult

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Notion

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An idea or opinion

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Era

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A period of time, that is different from other periods because of particular characteristics or events

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To prod

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To persuade or try to persuade someone to do something

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Accelerate

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To happen or to make something happen faster or earlier than expected

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Generation X

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People born between 1960-1980

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Generation Y

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People born between 1980-1990

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Postpone

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To arrange for an event

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To contract

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To become smaller

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Onset

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The beginning of something

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Reward

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To give something to somebody because they have done something good

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Content

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Happy and satisfied with what you are

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Homebody

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A person that likes to stay at home

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Studious

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Spending a lot of time studying or reading

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Grind

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Hard work

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Senior

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An older person (older than you)

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Distressed

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Upset or anxious

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Predecessor

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The people before…

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Risk factor

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Something that increases risk

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To exacerbate

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Make a problem, bad situation or negative feeling worse

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To congregate

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Gather into a crowd or mass

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Relentlessly

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Continuing in an extreme way, showing no sign of stopping

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Keenly

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Intensely

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Steep

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Rising or falling quickly, not gradually (something happening fast)

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Dire

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Causing suffering, dreadful, terrible

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Ostracizing

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Excluding form a society or group

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Deprived

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Suffering lack of something important

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Myriad

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A countless or extremely great number of things or people

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Compromised

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Made worse

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Susceptibility

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The state of being likely to be influenced or harmed by something

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Causation

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The action of causing something

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Correlation

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A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

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Adolescene

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When a young person develops from a child into an adult

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To impose

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To force on someone

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Accustomed to

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Familiar with something and accepting it as normal or usual

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Instill

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To make somebody feel, think or behave in a particular way over a period of time

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Moderation

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The quality of being reasonable and not being extreme

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