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Levy

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To impose ( a tax) (v)

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Coarsening

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Harsh, grating (adj)

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Fastidious

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requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking. (adj)

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Expurgated

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to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness. (v)

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Auspices

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patronage; support; sponsorship: (n)

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Eradication

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to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate: (n)

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Lodestar

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something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed. (n)

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Illegitimacy

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born of parents who are not married to each other; born out of wedlock: (n)

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Communal

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used or shared in common by everyone in a group: (adj)

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Cohabitators

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to live together in an intimate relationship. (n)

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Mortality

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the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population; death rate.

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Fret

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to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: (v)

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Reap

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to get as a return, recompense, or result: (v)

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Aspiration

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strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: (n)

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Dubious

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of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable: (adj)

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Anecdote

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a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

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Persuade

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to make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it or by talking to that person and making them believe it

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Clarify

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make (a statement or situation) less confused and more clearly comprehensible.

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Generalization

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Taking something specific and applying it more broadly

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Opinion

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a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.