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Catalyst

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Any agent that provokes or triggers change.

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Caustic

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Causing damage; hurting or burning

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Crystallize

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To give definite form to an idea or plan

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Osmosis

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The gradual, often unconscious process of ASSIMILATION

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Sedentary

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Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise

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Virulent

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The quality of being bitterly hostile, hateful and antagonistic (esp. language)

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Empirical

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Guided by practical experience, not theory.

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Entomology

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The scientific study of insects

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Gestate

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To conceive and develop in the mind

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Cathartic

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Purgative, either physically or emotionally, cleansing

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Paradigm

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A framework or model of thought.

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Cupidity

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Excessive desire for material wealth; greed; covetousness

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Avarice

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Excessive desire for material wealth; greed; covetousness

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Plethora

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A surplus or excess of something

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Surfeit

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A surplus or excess of something

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Glut

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A surplus or excess of something

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Impoverished

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Very poor, lacking basic resources

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Indigent

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Very poor, lacking basic resources

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Destitute

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Very poor, lacking basic resources

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Opulent

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Very rich, having abundant resources

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Affluent

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Very rich, having abundant resources

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Munificent

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Very generous

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Parsimonious

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Excessively cheap with money; stingy

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Remunerate

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To compensate; to make payment for; to pay a person

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Accord

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A formal concurrence, agreement or harmony of minds

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Enlighten, Edify

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To inform, instruct, illuminate, remove darkness and ignorance

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Appeasement

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The policy of granting concessions to maintain peace

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Nullify

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To make null; to declare invalid

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Pretext

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An excuse; an alleged cause

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Watershed

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Critical point that marks a change of course; a turning point

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Despot

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A ruler or other person with unlimited power and authority

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Autocrat

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A ruler or other person with unlimited power and authority

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Manifesto

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A public declaration of beliefs, policies or intentions

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Enfranchise

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To endow with the rights of citizenship, esp. the right to vote

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Disenfranchise

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To deprive of some privilege or right, esp. the right to vote

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Coerce

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To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or torture; to compel

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Egalitarian

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Favoring social equality; believing in a society in which all people have equal political, economic and civil rights

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Inquisition

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A severe interrogation; a systematic questioning

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Ameliorate

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To make a situation better

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Exacerbate

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To make a situation worse

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Desiccated

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Thoroughly dried out; lifeless; totally arid

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Contiguous

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Sharing an edge or boundary; touching

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Pertinent

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Relevant; to the point; clearly illustrative of a major point

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Complicity

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Association or participation in a wrongful act

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Exculpate

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To free from guilt or blame

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Exonerate

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To free from guilt or blame

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Indisputable

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Not open to question; undeniable; irrefutable

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Precedent

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An act or instance that is used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances

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Unprecedented

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Without previous example, never known before

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Malfeasance

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Misconduct or wrongdoing, esp. by a public official; intentionally performing an act that is illegal

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Probity

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Integrity and uprightness; honesty; high moral standards.

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