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1
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To shatter

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To break

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Barrier

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Obstacle; hindrance

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Illustrated

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Containing pictures or other graphical material

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Outpouring

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A flood; stream of

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League executive

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The person with senior managerial responsibility in the league

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To suffocate

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To cause to die or vanish

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To post

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To make information available on the internet

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To follow suit

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To do the same thing as someone else

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To issue

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To formally send out

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Analyst

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A person who conducts analysis, that is examines the elements and structure of N.B.A

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To cite

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To mention, refer to

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Free agent

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A sports player who is not bound by a contract and so is eligible to join any team

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Marginal

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Not very important, not one of the main players

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Worh ethic

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The belief that work is morally good

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To carve a niche

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An area in which someone can use their abilities

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To draft

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To choose someone to do a special task

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To allude to

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To hint at; to suggest

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Genuine

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Honest and sincere

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Authentic

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Genuine; real

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Disclosure

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Making new or secret information known

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To divulge

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To make known private or sensitive information

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Groundbreaking

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Something very new and big change from other things of it’s type

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Eloquent

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Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

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Cerebral

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Intellectual rather than emotional or physical

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Orientation

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Your sexual preference/sexual inclination

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Subtle

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Not very noticeable or obvious

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Solidarity

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Support by one person or a group of people for another because thy share feelings, opinions, aims

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Custom

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Custom-made; made or done to order

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Jersey

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A shirt that is worn by a member of a sports team

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To scout

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To look for suitably talented people for recruitment to one’s own organization for sports team

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Flux

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Continuous movement and change

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Conservative

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Disliking change and holding traditional values

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Justice

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A judge or magistrate, in particular a judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state

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To alter

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To change

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Opinion polls

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An assessment of public opinion by questioning a representative sample

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To favour

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To support or like something

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Homophobia

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Having fear of homosexuality

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Amid

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In the middle of

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En masse

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In a group; all together

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Advocacy

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Public support for a particular cause or policy

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Comprehensive

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Including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something

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Rookie

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A person who is new to an organization or an activity

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Veteran

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A person who has a lot of experience in a particular activity

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Clan

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A large family

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Congressman

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A man who belongs to a congress, especially a member of the US congress

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Parade

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A public progression, especially one celebrating a special day or event

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To march

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To walk along public roads in an organized procession as a form of protest

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To take a stand

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To make clear your opinion on something, that you’re willing to fight for

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Resistance

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Refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea or a change

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Conspiracy

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A secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal

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Advocate

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A person who strongly and publicly supports someone or something

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Denomination

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The value of a particular coin or banknote

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Hassle

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Something that causes problems or annoys you

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To outweigh

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To be more important, valuable, useful than something else

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Shadow economy

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Illicit economic activity existing alongside a country’s official economy; a black market transactions and undeclared work

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Death knell

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An event or a situation that is a sign of the end of something

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57
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To budget

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To plan the way you will spent the money you have, especially so you do not spend too much money

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To demonize

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To describe someone or something as very bad or dangerous although they are not

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Migrant

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A person who moves between countries to find work

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To prompt

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To make somebody do something or cause something to happen

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Disability

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A physical or mental condition that means you cannot use a part of your body completely or easily, or that you cannot learn easily

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Grave

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Serious

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Tax revenues

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The money that a government receives from taxes

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A badge

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A small piece of metal or plastic with a design or words on it, that a person wears to show

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Cryptocurrency

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Any system of electric money, used for buying and selling online and without the need for a central bank

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Inception

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Beginning

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Bubble

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Economic growth that is extremely good for a short period of time but is unlikely to last

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To sidestep

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To avoid

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To encrypt

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To put information into a special code, especially in order to prevent people from looking at it without authority

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A medium of exchange

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A medium of exchange is an intermediary instrument or a system used to facilitate the sale, purchase, or trade of goods between parties

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Boom and bust tendencies

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Highs and lows

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To surge

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To rise

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Wipe put

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Destroy completely

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Cautionary

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Warning somebody to be careful

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A vehicle for something

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Something that can be used to express your ideas or feelings or as a way of achieving something

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Scammer

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A person who commits fraud or participated in a dishonest scheme

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Crook

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A dishonest person

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78
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Anarchism

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The belief that there should be no government or laws

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79
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Sidestep

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Avoid

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80
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Parallel

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Similar to

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Banknote

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A piece of paper money

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Monopoly

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If a company or a government has a monopoly of a business or political activity, it has complete control of it so that other organizations cannot compete with it°

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Sweeping

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Having a major effect

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Akin to

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Similar to

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Blockchain

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A technology that underpins digital currency. The tech allows digital information to be distributed, but not copied. That means each individual piece of data can only have one owner

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Estimate

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A judgement that you can make without having the exact details

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Market capitalization

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The value of a company that is traded on the stock market, calculated by multiplying the total number of shares by the present share price

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Asset

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An item of property

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Utility

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The quality of being useful

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Held in high regard

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Respected and valued

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Modest

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Not very large, expensive, important

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Moderately

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To an average extent

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Upside

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The more positive aspect of situation that is generally bad

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Has been shot

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Has been got rid of

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Burned

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Lost money, suffered a loss

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Speculative investment

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High-risk investment with the purchaser being more interested in price fluctuations than real value

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Niche asset

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A very specific benefit for a small number of people

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Era

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A period of time, usually in history

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Drone

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An aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground

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Fully-fledged

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Completely developed

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Implication

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A possible result of an action or decision

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To conceive of

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To imagine or create something in your mind, to come up with an idea

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Insurgent

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A person fighting against the government or armed forces of their own country

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To scuttle about

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To move quickly

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Intelligence

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Secret information about the enemy

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Reconnaissance

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The activity of getting information about an area for military purposes

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locust

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A large insect that lives in hot countries and flies in large groups. It can destroy all the plants and crops of an area

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Swarm

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Move together as a large group in the same direction (verb)

A large group of insects moving together (noun)

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Kinetic energy

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Energy associated with movement and motion

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Gamge-changer

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A person, an idea, or an event that completely changes the way a situation develops

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Robotics

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The science of designing and operating robots

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Tactics

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Moving soldiers and military equipment around during a battle or a war in order to use them in the most efficient way

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Doctrine

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A government policy or a set of political beliefs

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Ethics

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Moral values

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Anti-personnel landmines

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Bombs places under the ground, designed to harm or kill people

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Autonomous

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Able to control itself

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To unleash

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To allow something powerful to happen

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Mere

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A word you use to emphasize how unimportant or small something is

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Repulsive

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Disgusting, very unpleasant

120
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Concept

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Idea

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To comply with

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To obey a rule or an order

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Rules of engagement

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The ruled that govern how wars are conducted

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Atrocity

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A cruel and violent act, especially in war

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Non-combatant casualties

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Injuries that happen to ordinary civilians, not soldiers

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Judicious

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Careful and sensible, showing good judgement

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Lobbyist

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Someone whose job is to influence government policy

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To proliferate

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To increase rapidly

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Disservice

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To do something that harms someone

129
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To slaughter

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To kill

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Conventional

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Traditional

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To engage

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To begin fighting

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Intervention

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To become involved in a situation to try and help

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To emerge

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To appear

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To deploy

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To move soldiers or weapons into a position where they are ready for military action

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Moratorium

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An officially agreed temporary ban

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To oppose

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To fight against something

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Unchaperoned

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Unaccompanied or unsupervised

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Landline

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Fixed telephone communications table, a telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless

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Generational

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Connected with a particular generation or with the relationship between different generations

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Doctoral

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Relating to or designed to achieve a doctorate

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Line graph

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A diagram of lines made by connected data points which represent successive changes in the value of a variable quantity or quantities

142
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Abrupt

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Sudden or unexpected

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Blip

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An unexpected, minor, and typically temporary deviation from a generally trend

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Millennial

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A person who belongs to the generation who became adults around the year 2000

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Recession

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A period of a temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GPD in two successive quarters

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Surpass

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Be greater than

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Pore over

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To read or study something very carefully

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Concomitant

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Happening at the same time as something else

149
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Advent of

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The time when something begins or arrives

150
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Hand-wringing

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The clasping together and squeezing of one’s hands, especially when distressed or worried

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Deleterious

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Damaging or harmful

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To curtail

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To reduce or limit something

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Markedly

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In a way that is easy to notice

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Skyrocket

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To increase quickly to a vert high level or amount

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On the brink

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If you are on the brink of something you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation

156
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Decade

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A period of ten years

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Crisis

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A difficult or dangerous situation that needs serous attention

158
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Deterioration

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The act or process of becoming worse

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Magnitude

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The great size or importance of something

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Compelling

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That makes you think it is true

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Profound

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Very great; felt or experienced very strongly

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Allure

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Power to attract; a quality that attracts people

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To hold sway

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To have power or a very strong influence

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Shift

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A change in position or direction

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Decline

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Continuous decrease in the number, value, quality of something

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Contribute

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To be one of the causes od something

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Adolescent

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A young person who is developing into an adult

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Notion

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An idea or opinion

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To prod

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To persuade or try to persuade something to do something

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Accelerate

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To happen or to make something happen faster or earlier than expected

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Generation X

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The group of elderly people who were born between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1970s

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Generation Y

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The group of people who were born between the early 1980s and the end of the 1990s, who are mainly the children of the baby boomers and who are regarded as being very familiar with computers and electronic technology

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Postpone

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To arrange for an event, to take place at a later time or date

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To contract

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To become smaller

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Onset

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The beginning of something

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Reward

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To give something to somebody because they have done something good, worked hard, etc.

177
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Content

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Being happy and satisfied with what you are

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Homebody

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A person who likes to stay at home, somebody unadventurous

179
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Studios

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Spending a lot of time studying or reading

180
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Grind

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Hard work

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Senior

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An older person

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Distressed

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Upset or anxious

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Predecessor

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Something that comes before something else, in time or in series

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Risk factor

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Something that increases risk

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To exacerbate

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Make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse

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To congregate

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Gather into a crowd or mass

187
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Relentlessly

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Continuing in an extreme way, showing no sign of stopping

188
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Keenly

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Intensely

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Steep

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1) Rising or falling quickly

2) sudden and very big

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Dire

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Causing suffering, dreadful, terrible

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Ostracizing

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Excluding from a society or group

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Deprived

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Suffering a lack of something

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Myriad

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A countless or extremely great number of people or things

194
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Compromised

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Made worse

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Susceptibility

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The state of being likely to be influenced or harmed by something

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Causation

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The action of causing something

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Correlation

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A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

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Adolescence

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The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child inro an adult

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To impose

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To force on someone

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Accustomed to

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Familiar with something and accepting it as normal or usual

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Instill

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Instil something into somebody, to gradually make somebody feel, think or behave in a particular way over a period of time

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Moderation

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The quality of being reasonable and not being extreme

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