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Pretentious

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Cocky, arrogant, conceited

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Euphemism

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Sugar coat something, cushion the blow, to use inoffensive language

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Dejure Law

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written law

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Nepotism

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Favoring family members

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Anecdotal evidence

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Heresay, gossip, rumors

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Empirical evidence

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Proven facts

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Partisan

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Two groups disagree

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Bipartisan

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Two groups agree

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Xenophobia

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A fear of foreigners

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Defacto Law

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Unspoken/written law

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Guerilla Warfare

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Hit and run tricky warfare also known as the poor men’s war

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Patriarchal

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Male-dominated

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Totalitarian

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Gov. has total control over the people

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Jingoism

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Extreme nationalism, you think your country is perfect and has never done anything wrong

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Fascism

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Gov. that has totally control with extreme nationalism

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Demagogue

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Person who appeals to fear and prejudices, fear-mongers

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Affirmative Action

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Enforcing or mandating diversity (law)

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Machiavellian

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Ruthless

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Autonomy

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Independence, self-governing

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Martyr

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Someone who’s willing to sufferer even die for a cause

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Secular

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Non-Religious

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Draconian

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Very severe or harsh

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Bull Market

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People are making a lot of money in the stock market

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Bear Market

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Bad times in the stock market, people are losing money

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Empathy

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Put yourself in someone else’s shoes, when you can relate to or feel how someone else is feeling

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Theocracy

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Religious based gov.
(bible is your constitution)
church and state are combined

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Blue Collar

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Manual laborer, works w their hands

carpenter, mechanic, plumber, etc

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White Collar

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Work in an office building, desk job

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Avant Garde

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Cutting edge or very modern art

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Misogyny

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Hateful towards women, anti-women

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Expatriate

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Person who moves out of their country to live in another country

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Malady

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Sickness or disease

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Panacea

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Remedy or a cure

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Heretic

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Person who speaks out against the main belief system

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Jim Crow

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Segregation that occurred for many years after slavery

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Uncle Tom

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A black man who sucks up to white men

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Muckraker

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A reporter who exposes corruption in high places

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Gadfly

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Persisten critic

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Nihilistic

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Person who doesn’t believe in anything

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Agnostic

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Believe in a higher power but can’t define it

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Laissez Faire

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Gov. is hands off, not involved, wishing for less government

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Coup

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  1. brilliant idea

2. short cut for Coup De’atet

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Coup De’etat

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military overtake of the gov.

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Anti-Semitism

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Anti-Jewish, dislike of Jews

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Appeasement

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To give in to avoid conflict, not a compliment

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Entrepreneur

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Someone who starts their own business

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Zealot

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A fanatic, someone with extreme beliefs, extremist for your cause

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Antebellum

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Time period before a war

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Omnipotent

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All powerful, invincible

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Collateral damage

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Military term for civilians being killed in warfare

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Luddite

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Anti-technology

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Proletariat

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The working class

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Surreal

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dream-like

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Quixotic

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You’re a dreamer but it never seems to happen, all talk

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Yellow journalism

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Putting exciting but unnecessary stories on the news

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Philistine

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a slob, uncultured, uncivilized, not a compliment

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Bohemian

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unique, different, out of the mainstream

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Automation

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when machines replace humans

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Ascetic

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someone who lives a very simple life for spiritual reasons

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Cosmopolitan

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worldly, sophisticated

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Social Darwinism

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survival of the fittest, belief that people are either on the top or a flop

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Apolitical

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uninterested w politics

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Anachronism

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outdated

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Erudite

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someone who’s highly educated

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Excommunicate

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cut out or kicked out of something

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Martial Law

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military law

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Hyperbole

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big exaggeration

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Hegemony

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control

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Precocious

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very advanced

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Belligerent

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aggressive or warlike

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Egalitarian

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equality

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Indigenous

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native to an area, first people to settle in an area

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Oligarchy

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a gov by a few people (small group)

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Autocrat

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dictatorship or dictator, despot

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Despot

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autocrat, dictator`

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Proactive

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take charge of the situation

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Precarious

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unsafe or dangerous

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Superfluous

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unnecessary, excessive

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Exacerbate

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to make something worse

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Eclectic

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diverse, varied

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Esoteric

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specialized language or a language that is difficult to understand

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Ephemeral

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short lived, doesn’t last for awhile

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Insidious

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sly, tricky, slippery`

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Narcissistic

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full of yourself, self absorbed, pretentious

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Hedonistic

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To be obsessed by pleasure, you play hard and then you play harder, you have no goals other than where is the next party

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Diatribe

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A vicious, verbal attack

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Euthanasia

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Mercy killing, to put someone out of their misery

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Aberration

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An exception to the rule

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Anomaly

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Something out of the ordinary

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Renaissance Woman

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Good at everything

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Sisyphean

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Very difficult, almost impossible task

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Hubris

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Arrogance, excessive pride

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Anarchist

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People who despise government because all governments do two things badly: serve the wealthy and strip us of our rights

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Quagmire

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Tricky or sticky situation

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Antithesis

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Opposite of something

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Serendipity

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Pleasant surprise

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Bourgeoisie

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owning class

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Clandestine

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Secret

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Reparation

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Payment you give when you lose a war

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Suffragist

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Pushing for somebody to get the right to vote

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Red Herring

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A distraction

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Infamous

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Notorious

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Pontificate

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Preachy, a know it all

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Pluralistic

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Diversity

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Provincial

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Narrow minded, small townish

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Maverick

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Out of the box risk taker, adventuresome, willing to shake things up, take new risks

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Nefarious

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Wicked or evil

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Epiphany

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A sudden realization

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere

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