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What does callous mean?

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Harsh

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What does ghoulish mean?

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Resembling a ghoul

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What does enervating mean?

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Drained of energy and life

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What does dispatch mean?

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Official report from abroad by a journalist

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What does deposed mean?

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Removed from position or office

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What does putrid mean?

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Decaying or rotting (bad smell)

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What does revulsion mean?

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Disgust

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What does vitality mean?

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Strong or active

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What does degeneration mean?

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Deteriorate or decline

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What does breached mean?

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Breaking or failing to observe a law

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What does surreptitiously mean?

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Secretly

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Taboo

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Something that nobody wants to talk about

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What is a hoe?

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Gardening tool for weeding

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Fleeting

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Short time

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What does revulsion mean?

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Loathing or disgust

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What does inured mean?

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Hardened

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Deprivation

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Lacking of something

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Feeble

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Lacking physical strength

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Tacit

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Understood or implied without being stated

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Muster

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Gather

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Adequate

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Acceptable

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Seminal

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Strongly influencing later development

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Context

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Clarify meaning