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Tautologous

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Repetitive

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Smouldering

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Burning slowly: with smoke but no flame

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Squalid

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Place of extreme dirty/unpleasant (i.e poverty)

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Acute

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Severe/a lot of

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Almanac

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A booklet without outline of key details for the year

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Adherent

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someone who supports a particular party

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Undulation

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Moving up and down

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Profanity

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“Swear word”- blasphemous or obscene language

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Laden

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‘carrying a load or burden’

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umpteen

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A lot of (indefinitely a lot)

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bayonet

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Knife that fits at the end of a rifle

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Layman

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person with no profession/specialised knowledge

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Blouse

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Womans uppergarment resembling a shirt

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Brandish

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To shake or wave (a weapon) menacingly

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Bereft

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Deprived/lacking (of something)

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Whorl

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A pattern of spirals/concentric circles

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Trope

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Using a word or expression in a figurative/metaphoric way

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Garnish

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Decorate/embelishment

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Tunic

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Women’s clothing from shoulder to hips

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Carafe

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Glass container without handles used for serving drinks

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Purported

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Appearing to be stated as true (a statement)

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Advent

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Arrival of noble person or thing

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Predicament

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Difficult/unpleasant situation

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Savant

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educated person (i.e distinguished scientist), intellectual

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Aggregation

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“cluster” of things brought together

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Demarcation

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Fixing a boundary (i.e wall et.c)/limit

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Premeditate

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Think or plan out beforehand

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Congrous

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In agreement/harmony

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Contentions

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heated disagreement/ones main argument

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Preclude

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Prevent from happening

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irrevocable

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Not able to be changed/reversed/recovered

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Redundant

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No longer useful/superfluous

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary

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Dualism

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Philosophy: theory that mental and physical are in some sense radically different kinds of things

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Encompassing

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Surround/hold within

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Advocate

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A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy

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Pertaining

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be appropriate/related/applicable to

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Axiomatic

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Self evident/unquestionable

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Marxist

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Supporter of the “Marx” side of politics

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Capitalism

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Economic system where country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state

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Republic

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A state where supreme power is held by people and their elected representative, with an elected president

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Fascade

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The front of the building that faces the open street/Deceptive outward appearance

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Fleeting

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Last for very short amount of time

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Union

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Societies formed by people with common interest of purpose

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Trifling

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Unimportant or trivial (of little value or importance)

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Idly

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No particular purpose, reason or foundation

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indemnity

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Money paid as compensation (can be for security too)

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Vindication

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action of clearing someone from blame/suspicion

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Oblique

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Not expressed in a direct way

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Pastiche

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Artistic work style that imitates that of another work

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hypocrisy

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Practice of claiming to have higher standards than is the case

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Trite

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Lacking original freshness/dull due to overuse

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Erronous

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Wrong/incorrect

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Contempt

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Feeling that person/thing is worthless/beneath consideration

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bipartisan

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Agreement/cooperation of two political parties usually opposing each other’s policy

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Iterative

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Denoting a grammatical rule that can be applied repeatedly

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Myriad

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A great number of ___ (n/adj)

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Tacit

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understood/implied without stated

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Haulage

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Commercial transport of goods

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Sporadically

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Occasionally at regular intervals

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Self actualisation

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Relizing or fulfilling one’s talent/potential as a need to present in everyone

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Tress

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Long lock of hair

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Erratic

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Changing unpredictably/rapidly

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Customary

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according to customs/practices

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pragmatic

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Dealing with things sensibly/realistically

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immutable

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unchanging over time/unable to be changed

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albiet

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“though”

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trenchant

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vigorous or incisive (intelligently analytic and clear thinking) in expression/style

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incisive

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intelligently analytic and clear thinking

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vacuous

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mindless/out of thought

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idiosyncratic

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peculiar/distinctive/individual/distinguished

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burgeon

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begin to grow or increase rapidly/flourish

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Scrupulous

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careful, thorough and extremely attentive to detail

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deliberation

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long and careful consideration discussion

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Liberal

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open to changing one own’s value/for government

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Conservative

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Holding on traditional values/for people

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kangaroo court

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an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime or misdemeanour.

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shrapnel

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fragments of a bomb/shell or other object thrown out by explosion

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epithet

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an addition of a phrase added to a name to describe the quality of that person/object i.e Alexander THE GREAT

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Itinerant

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travelling from place to place

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Sophistry

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using clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving

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eclectic

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deriving ideas/style/taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

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ethnocentric

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evaluating cultures according to the preconceptions/standards and customs

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heliocentric

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representing the sun in the centre (of a model)

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anthropocentric

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marking humankind as the centre/most important

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geocentric

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marking earth as its centre

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Dogma

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principles that are laid as true

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Rites

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A religious ceremony

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doctrines

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set of beliefs held and taught by the church

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rudimentary

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limited to basic principles/underdeveloped state

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parsimonious

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unwilling to spend money/resource

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Propriety

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state of quality or conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behaviour/morals

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superflous

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unnecessary

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jostle

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use elbow to push against someone/thing (i.e in a crowd)

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meticulous

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showing great attention to detail

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inexplicable

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unable to be explained/accounted for

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taut

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stretched or pulled tightly, no slack

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straddled

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sit or stand with one leg on either side of it (an object)

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leer

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look/gaze in a bad way

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judicious

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showing good judgment/cause

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auspicious

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conducive to success; favourable

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ostentatious

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pretencious/showy display/show off

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pretentious

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attempting to impress by greater merit than possessed

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enigmatic

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: difficult to interpret/understand/mysterious

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oeuvre

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the body of work for a painter, composer or author

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emancipation

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process of being set free from legal, social or political restrictions

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quiescent

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inactive/dormancy

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jocosity

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fun characterised by humour

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bleak

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denouement

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the outcome of a decision/closure

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plenitude

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an abundance

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savest

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conscience

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allusion

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figure of speech that makes reference to thing through implication

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pensive

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reflect deep or serious thought

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jaunty

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lively/cheerful/confident manner

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double entendre

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a sentence/phrase that has two meanings (entendre= meaning)

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amendment

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a minor change to improve a legislation

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alleviating

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make (a problem) less severe

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empirical

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based on observation rather than logic/theories

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abhorrned

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regarded with disgust/hatred

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overdrawn

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exaggerating

GAMSAT Eng (6 decks)

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