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Aberration, Anatoly

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Something that stands out or is abnormal

Outlier

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Acclaim

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Great praise or approval

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Accord, discord

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Accord= agreement
Discord= disagreement
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Acquisitiveness

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Desire to acquire more, especially an excessive desire

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Average

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Land measured in acres

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Adhere to, adherent

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To stick to (belief, plan, cause)

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Ad-lib

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Make something up on the spot

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Adopt

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Take and make ones own- vote to accept

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Advent

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Arrival

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Adverse

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Unfavorable, opposed

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Agency

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The ability to use power or influence

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Aggravate

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To make worse

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Altogether

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Completely overall

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain and unable to decide

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Amortize

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Gradually pay off. A debt

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Analogous

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Corresponding in a particular way

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Annex

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To add on

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Annihilate

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Completely destroy

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Annul

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To make void or cancel

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Anoint

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To power or praise given to someone who is thought very highly of

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Antithetical to

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Opposite to

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Application

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Act or result of applying

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Apprentice

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A person who works for someone else in order to leant trade

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Arbiter

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Judge, umpire or person empowered to decide matters at hand

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Archaic

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Characteristic of an earlier ancient period

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Aristocracy

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A hereditary ruling class nobility

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Artifact

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Any object made by humans of earlier time

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Ascribe to, ascriptipn

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To give credit

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Assert

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Affirm, says, claim or express

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Assimilation

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The process by which a minority group adopts the customs and ways of lot of a. Larger group o blend in

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Attain

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Achieve

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Attribute to

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Give credit to

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Atypical

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Not typical

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Backfire

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To produce unexpected results

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Balance

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To maintain leftover amount

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Baldly

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Plainly, explicitly

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Balloon

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To swell of puff out rapidly

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Befall

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Happen to (for something bad)

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Belie

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Contradict or misrepresent

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Benevolent

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Expressing goodwill or helping others

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Benign

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Harmless

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Blight

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Disease that kills plans rapidly

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Blunt

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To dull, weaken of make less effective

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Bolster

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Strengthen or support

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Brook

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To suffer or tolerate

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Buffer

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Something that separates two group

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Bureaucracy

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Government characteriRd by many bureaucrats

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Bygone

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Past, former

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Bypass

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Avoid, go around, ignore

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Canon

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Body of accepted rules, standards

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Chancy

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Risky, not having a certain outcome

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Checked

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Restrained, held back

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Clamor

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Noisy uproar

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Coalesce

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Come together, unite

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Coercion

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Force use of pressure

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Cogent

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Very convincing, logical

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Cognitive

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Relative to thinking

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Collude

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Conspire

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Compound

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Add interest to principle and accrued interest

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Concede

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To give in, admit and give up

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Condone

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Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless

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Confer

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Consult, compare views or give

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Contend

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Assert

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Converge

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Move toward one another to unite

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Convoluted

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Twisted very complicated

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Copious

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Plentiful, bountiful

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Corresponding

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Accompanying, having the same or almost the same relationship

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Corroborate

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Support, add evidence to

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Countenance

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Approve or tolerate

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Counterintuitive

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Against what a person would intuitively expect

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Counterpoint

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Contracting item

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Credibility

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believability, trustworthiness

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Curtail

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Cut short or reduce

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Cynical

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Thinking the worst of other’s motivations, bitterly pessimistic

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Debase

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Degrade lower quality

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Debunk

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Expose, ridicule

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Decry

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Comb openly

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Deflect

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Cause to curve

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Delimit

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Fix, mark or define boundaries of

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Denote

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Be a name of symbol for

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Deride

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Mock, Scoff at

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Deterrent

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Something that restrains or discourages

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Dichotomy

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Division into two parts of into two contradictory groups

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Disclosure

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Exposing the truth

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Discount

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Ignore

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Discredit

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Injure the reputation of

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Discrepancy

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Difference or inconsistency

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Discrete

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Separate or distinct

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Discretionary

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Subject to someone’s judgement

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Disinterested

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Unbiased, not taking a side

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Disparate

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Distinct, differenc

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Dispatch

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Speed, promotes

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Disseminate

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scatter, spread about

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Divest

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Deprived or strip of

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Dovetail

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Join or fit together

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Dubious

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Doubtful, questionable

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Echelon

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A level, rank or grade

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Eclipse

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One thing covering up another

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Efficacy

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The quality of being able to produce the intended effect

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Egalitarian

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Related to belief in the equality of all people

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Egregious

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Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad

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Emancipate

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Free from Slavery or oppression

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Eminent

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Prominent, distributed high rank

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Empirical

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Coming from, based on or able to be verified by an experiment

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Emulate

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Copy in attempt to be equal to or better

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Enigma

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Puzzle, mysterious

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Ensure vs insure

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Insured- insurance

Ensure- guarantee

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Enumerate

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Count or list

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Equitable

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Fair or just

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Equivocal or equivocate

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Used unclear language to decide or avoid commuting to a position

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Erroneous

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Mistaken in erro

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Erstwhile

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Former, previous

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Escape velocity

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The min velocity that an object must maintain in order to completely execs or a gravitational field

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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem, admirable

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ethos

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The character, personality or moral values

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Exacerbate

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Make worse

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Exacting

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Very severe In making demands

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Exhaustive

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Comprehensive, thorough

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Expansionist

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Wanting to expand

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Expedient

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Suitable, proper, effective

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Explicit

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Direct, clear, fully Revealed

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant

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Extrapolate

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Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known

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Facilitate

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Make easier

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Faction

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A group within a larger organization

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Faculty

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An ability, often a mental ability

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Fashion

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Manner or way

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Fathom

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Understand deeply

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Fleeting

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Passing quickly

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Forestall

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Delay, hinder

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Glacial

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Slow, cold, unsympathetic

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Grade, gradation

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To slant or progression of taking place gradual in stages

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Graft

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Join together plant parts or skin so that two living things grow together
The act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means

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Grandstand

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Perform showily in attempt to impress onlookers

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Guesswork

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A set of guesses or estimates

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Guile

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Clever deceit

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Hardy

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Bold, brave, capable

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Hearken of hark

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Listen, pay attention to

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Hedge

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Avoid commitment by leaving provisions for withdrawal or changing ones mind

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Hegemony

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Domination, authority

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Host

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Large amount (host of problems)

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration for effect

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Iconoclast

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Attached of cherished beliefs or institutions

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Imminent

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Ready to occur, impending

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Impartial

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Unbiased

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Impasse

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Position or road from which there is no escape

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Impede

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Hold back, obstruct the progress of

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Impinge on

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Trespass on, violate

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Imply

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Hint at, suggest

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Impute

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To credit to, to attribute to

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Inadvertently

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Accidentally, carelessly as a side effect

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Inasmuch

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Since, because

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Incidentally

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Accidentally

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Incinerate

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Burn, reduce to ashes

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Indeterminate

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Not fixed or determined, vague

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Induce

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Persuade or influence, bring about

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Inert

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Inactive, having little of no power to move

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Inextricably

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In a way such that one cannot untangle or escape something

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Inform

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Inspire, animate

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Ingenuity

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Incentive skill, imagination

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Ingrained

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Deep rooted

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Inherent

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Existing as a permanent, essential quality

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Inordinate

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Excessive

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Instrumental

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Serving as a means of doing something

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Insular

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Pertaining to an island- detached

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Interplay

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Interaction

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Intractable

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Difficulty to control, manage or manipulate

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Intrepid

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Fearless, brave

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Intrinsic

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Bobbi g to the essential nature of such things

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Inundate

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Flood, cover with water, overwhelm

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Investiture

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Investing, formally giving someone a right or title

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Isotope

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Forms of the same chemical of element with different number of neutrons

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Jettison

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Discard, cast off

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Juxtapose

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Place side by side to make a comparison.

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Kinetic

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Pertaining to motion

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Lackluster

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Not shiny, dull

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Latent

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Potential, existing but not visible or active

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Lateral

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Sideways related to located at the side

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Lax

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Not strict, careless loose

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Laypeople

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Regular peoe

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Levy

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Elect tC from wager war on

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Liberal

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Favorable to progress of reform believing in maximum possible freedom

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Machination

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Crafty schemes. Or plots

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Magnate

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Very important or influential person

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Malleable

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Able to be bent, shaped or adapted

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Manifest

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Obvious, apparent

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Mantle

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Layer of earth between crust and core

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Maxim

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A general truth or fundamental principle

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Mercurial

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Quickly and unpredictably changing moods, fickle

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Militarism

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Glorification of the milifRy

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Mired

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Stuck, entangled, soiled

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Mores

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Customs, manners, morals of a group

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Municipal

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Relating to local self government

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Narrative

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Story, report, narrative account

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Abate

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Reduce or diminish

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