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Disparate

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Different in kind, not allowing comparison

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Oxymoron

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A contradictory statement that is true for example: Less is more

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Subjugation

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The action of bringing someone or something under control

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Subjugate in a sentence

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When you subjugate someone you keep them under control

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Hyperbole

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Exagerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Village Safety Committe

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Danielle Horn olive complexion
John Ramaker
Kate McManus pretty dark hair bun
Kathleen Joyce super friendly

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Sanctimonious

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Acting morally superior

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Reductive

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Tending to present a subject or a problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.

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10
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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Thomas Sowell

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11
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Opinions are the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Plato

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Demonstrable

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Clearly apparent

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Provisions

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The action of providing or supplying something for use.

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Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development. Knowledge, skills, beliefs, habits.

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Jim Rohn

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Mendacity

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untruthfullness

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Provenance

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The place of origin

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17
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Confounded

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Used for emphasis especially to express anger or annoyance

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18
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Temerity

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Excessive confidence or boldness, audacity

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Intellectual rapport

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Fraught

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Filled with or likely to

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Malevolent (lence)

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter

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Sustenance

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Food and drink regarded as a source of strength

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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 or beliefs of that time.

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect in a slow gradual way

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Cognitive Disonance

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Psychometry

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Ability to learn things about a person by touching an intimate object of theirs

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Inductive versus deductive reasoning

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Inductive reason tries to develop a theory while deductive reasoning tests a theory

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29
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Insipid

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Lacking vigor or interest

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30
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Equivocal

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Open to more than one interpretation

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31
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Gender Disphoria

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32
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Auspicious

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Having or showing a cautious distrust of something

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Demonstrative

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Showing as conclusive evidence of something; showing proof

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Unfelicitous

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Unfortunate, inappropriate

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Hubris

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Describes a personality trait of extreme or excessive pride

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely to placate or pacify

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Placate

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Make less angry or hostile

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Ventilate Impediments

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Circulate air into obstructions (thoughts)

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Resolute

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Admirably purposeful

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Proliferation

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Rapid increase in numbers

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Dominion

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Sovereignty or control

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Sovereign

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The authority of a state to govern itself

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Codify

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Arrange laws or rules into a systematic code.

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Amenable

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Open and responsive to suggestion. Easily persuasive.

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Coalesce

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Come together

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Esoteric

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Intended to or likely to only be understood by a select few with special training

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Linear versus exponential

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Arbitrary

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Based on random choice or personal whim rather than any reason or system

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Discernment

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The ability to judge well

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Pervasive

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An unwelcome influence spreading widely

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Proverbial

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Well known, stereotypical

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Pragmatic

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Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations

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Superlative

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The highest quality or degree

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Analogous

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Comparable in certain respects typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of things

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Vitriol

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Cruel and bitter criticism

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Sage

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As a noun a profoundly wise person

57
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The import of his words

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Something of significance

58
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Eventuality

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Possible outcome

You can’t prepare for every eventuality

59
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Ubiquitous

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Appearing everywhere

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Deficit of courage

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61
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Pejorative

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Expressing content or disapproval

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Diminished role/level

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63
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Who versus whom

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64
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Postulate

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Suggest or assume the existence, fact or truth of something

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Languish

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Lose or lack vitality, grow weak or feeble

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Vortex

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A mass or whirling fluid

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Modality

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A particular method or procedure

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Non partisan versus bi-partisan

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Not biased versus two parties with opposing views finding common ground

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Emblematic

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Symbolic of a certain quality or concept

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Partisan

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Strong supporter of a party

71
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You never burn a bridge because you may need to walk back over it

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72
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Ethos

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The characteristics spirit of a culture or era

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Normativity

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74
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Austerity

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Sternness or severity of manner

75
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I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

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76
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Calculated mediocrity

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Steve

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Utilitarianism

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Normative Ethical Theories

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Imbue

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Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality

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Paradox

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A self contradictory statement

80
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Impervious

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Unable to be affected by

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Maladaptive

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Not providing adequate adjustment to the situation or environment

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Apropos

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Appropriate for the situation

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