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accept/except

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willingly receive, allow, or approve/excluding, apart from

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abjure/adjure

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deny something under oath/urge something to do something

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adverse/averse

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harmful, unfavorable/having a feeling of distaste, or dislike

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advice/advise

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an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide/ to give information to someone

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affect/effect

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to impact or change/ the result from change

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allusion/illusion

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making an indirect reference to something/mistaken idea, something that is not real but seems to be real

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alternate/alternative

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describes every other substitute/presence of more than one possibility, choice

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ascent/assent

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a climb/agreement

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ascetic/aesthetic

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extreme self-denial for religious reasons/pleasing to the eye

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capital/capitol

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Accumulated wealth, A city that serves as the seat for the country’s government/A building where the legislative government meets

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censure/censor

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to find fault with and criticize, blame/to remove,block

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chafe/chaff

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rub or wear away with friction/ husks of grain separated

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cite/site/sight

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to give reference to sources on academic papers/ a location,place/to see things

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collaborate/corroborate

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to work together/to confirm,verify a statement

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commend/condemn/condone

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praise formally/express complete disapproval/accept and allow behavior that is morally wrong

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compliment/complement

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a polite expression of praise/something that enhances and completes another thing

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concurrent/consecutive

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occuring at the same time, simultaneous/happen in sequential order, uninterrupted, repeating

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content/contentious

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happy or satisfied/likely to cause an argument

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council/counsel

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group of people come together to make decisions/advice that is given formally

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descent/dissent

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action of moving down/to publicly disagree with an official decision

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discreet/discrete

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is careful in speech and actions to avoid causing offense/individually separate and distinct

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disinterested/uninterested

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not biased(taking sides)/not interested

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elicit/illicit

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to bring forth a reaction,response/not permitted, illegal

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emigrant/immigrant/migrant

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leaves their country to settle somewhere permanently/comes to live permanently in a foreign country/moves to another place to find better opportunities, living conditions

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eminent/immanent/imminent

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famous and respected within a profession/inherent in an spread throughout something else, built in, essential/about to happen,ready to take place

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enervate/energize

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drain away strength/to make energetic or active

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flaunt/flout

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show off/ignore the rules

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gambit/gamut

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a kind of sacrifice/a range

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ingenious/ingenuous

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clever, original, inventive/innocent and unsuspecting

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precede/proceed

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to surpass in rank, dignity, or importance/to go or continue forward

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principal/principle

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headmaster of a school/a rule, law, or guideline

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stanch/staunch

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to check or stop the flow of blood/having loyalty or principle

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stationary/stationery

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fixed, unchanging/paper, matching envelopes, writing equipments

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tortuous/torturous

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twisting, winding, crooked/painful, full of suffering

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venal/venial

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open to corrupt influence(bribery), purchasable/can be forgivable