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Contrition

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The state of feeling remorseful and penitent.

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

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Servile

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Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

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Coalesce

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Come together to form one mass or whole.

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Conurbation

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An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of a central city.

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Diplomat

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An official representing a country abroad.

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Devolved

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Transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration.

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Ulterior

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Existing beyond what is obvious or admitted; intentionally hidden.

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect; especially in a gradual or subtle way.

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Asinine

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Extremely stupid or foolish.

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Vacuous

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Having or showing lack of thought or intelligence, mindless

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Stultifying

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Cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.

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De facto

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In fact, whether by right or not.

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand. Obscure

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Tiff

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A petty quarrel, especially one between friends or lovers.

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Refractory

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Stubborn or unmanageable.

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Crucible

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A place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development. Or a severe test.

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Remedial

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Action taken to try to improve or rectify a situation

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Dissemination

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The act of spreading something, especially information, widely; circulation.

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Bona fide

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Genuine, real.

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Bonanza

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A situation which creates a sudden increase in wealth, good fortune, or profits.

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Perennial

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Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.

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Chagrin

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Annoyance or distress at having failed or been humiliated.

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Lacuna

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An unfilled space; a gap.

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Repetoire

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A stock of skills or types of behaviour that a person habitually uses.

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Ontology

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The philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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Epistemology

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The nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief.

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Methodology

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The systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study.

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Finesse

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Impressive delicacy and skill.

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In situ

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In the original place.

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Proxy

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A figure that can be used to represent the value of something in a calculation. Or the authority to represent someone else.

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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

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Equifinal

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Having the same end result

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Ephemeral

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Lasting only for a short time.

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Arrears

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Money that is owed that should’ve been paid earlier.

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Serenity

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The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.

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Husk

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The dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds.

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Desiccate

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Remove the moisture from something usually to preserve it). Or lacking interest, passion and energy.

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Renal

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Relating to the kidneys

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Bequest

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Something that is or may be inhereted

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Seminal

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Strongly influencing later developments.

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Formative

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Serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person’s development.

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Legacy

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An amount of money or property left to someone in a will.

44
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Directorates

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A section of a government department in charge of a particular activity.

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Impute

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Attribute

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Paradigm

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A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model.

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Prosaically

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Commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative

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Gestalt

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An organised whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

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Ostensible

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Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

50
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Explicate

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To go into further detail, not concerned whether a person understands, which is where it differs from explaining as the soul intention of explaining is to make someone understand.

51
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Corollary

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A proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved.

52
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Append

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Add/attach/affix something, usually at the end of a written document.

53
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Fervour

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Intense and passionate feeling.

54
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Sanitise

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Make clean, make (something) more palatable by removing elements that are likely to be unacceptable or controversial.

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Predilection

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A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something.

56
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Basque

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A close-fitting bodice extending from the shoulders to the waist and typically with a short continuation below waist level.

57
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Pander

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Gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such a desire or taste).

58
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Indomitable

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Impossible to subdue or defeat

59
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Burgeoning

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Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.

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Hellacious

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Very great, bad, or overwhelming.

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Vehemently

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In a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling.

62
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Fasces

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A bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade, carried by a lictor in ancient Rome as a symbol of a magistrate’s power, and used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy.

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Cessation

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

64
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Antiquities

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An object, building, or work of art from the ancient past.

65
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Loco Parentis

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In the place of a parent

66
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Askance

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With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval.

67
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Amenable

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Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.

68
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Genealogy

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A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.

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Awry

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Away from the usual or expected course; amiss.

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Vignette

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A brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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Sisyphean

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Denoting a task that can never be completed.

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Zeal

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Rreat energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.

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Zealous

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Showing great passion and energy

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Quell

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Put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force.

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Lauded

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Praised (a person or their achievements) highly.

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Dour

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Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance.

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Bullion

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Gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight.

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Cognizant

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Being aware or having knowledge of

79
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Circumvent

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Find a way around (an obstacle)

80
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Terse

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Sparing in the use of words; abrupt.

81
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Veritable

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Used for emphasis, often to qualify a metaphor.

82
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Zeitgeist

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The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.

83
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Byzantine

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Excessively complicated, and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail.

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar or individual.

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Proclivity

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A tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition towards a particular thing.

86
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Extradition

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The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.

87
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Prosthesis

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An artificial body part, such as a limb, a heart, or a breast implant.

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Idiomatic

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Using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker.

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Proto-

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First or earliest/ original

90
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Nominal

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Existing in name only. or very small, below the real value or cost.

91
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Supine

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Lying face upwards. or Failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence.

92
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Cumbersome

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Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy.

93
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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior to other people. Usually used to describe someone when they are acting against how they portrayed themselves to be.

94
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Tripartite

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Consisting of three parts or parties.

95
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Despondent

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In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

96
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Conniption

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In a fit of rage or hysterics

97
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Leverage

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Use something to maximum advantage.

In finance: Using borrowed capital to make an investment expecting the profits to be made to be higher than the interest paid.
and The ratio of a company’s loan capital to the value of its ordinary shares.

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Transient

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Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.

99
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Megalomaniac

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A person who has an obsessive desire for power.

100
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Homeostasis

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The tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.

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