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JUDICIOUS

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HAVING OR SHOWING GOOD JUDGEMENT

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adjucatre

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to settle a dispute or arguement

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amoral

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not concerned about morality

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mores

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attitudes and behaviours that are so firmly fixed that they are followed like laws

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morose

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gloomy, bad-tempered

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expiate

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to make up for doing wrong

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impious

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lacking respect for what should be worshipped

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consecrate

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to set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose

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execrable

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very bad; hateful

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sacrosanct

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so sacred or revered as to be offlimits

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artifice

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clever trickery; deception

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artless

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without strategy or deceit; naive

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inert

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not having power to move; slow to actr

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icon

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an image that best represents something; a symbol

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iconoclast

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a person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in

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iconography

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the study of a group of representative pics or symbols

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emulate

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to seek to be like; to admiringly mimic

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inimitable

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impossible to imitate or copy

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purveyor

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one who supplies or sells

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proviso

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a clause or statement that gives instructions for a potential event or situation

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purview

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range of skills or authority; capability