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1
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foment

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to promote growth or development of…

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anharmonicity

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deviation of a system from being a harmonic oscillator

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3
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attrition

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  • reduction/decrease in #’s, size or strength (military strategy - win by wearing down enemy o pt of collapse)
  • sorrow for one’s sins, not b/c of the love/fear of God
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4
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chut koou glon

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Vietnamese

good night

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5
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ōt posk

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Russian

vacation

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kag’ de la

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Russian

How are you?

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hoe re shō

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Russian

okay

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8
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pōka

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Russian

later (informal goodbye)

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9
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das vidanya

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Russian

goodbye (formal)

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pōt stava

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Russian

situational betrayal

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11
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shin jao

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Vietnamese

Hello

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12
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ban kwe kong

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Vietnamese

how are you?

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13
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dungaree

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a heavy, course, durable cotton twill woven from colored yarns
clothes made from denim

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14
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opulence

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noun

  • wealth/affluence
  • abundance (as of resources)

adj
- opulent

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15
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exhort

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  • strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

- to incite by argument or advice

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jural

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  • of or relating to law

- or or relating to rights and obligations

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17
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enigmatic

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  • difficult to interpret or understand

- mysterious

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18
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tamagoyaki

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Japanese rolled eggs

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18
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jicama

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Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as Jícama, Mexican Yam, or Mexican Turnip, is the name of a native Mexican vine, although the name most commonly refers to the plant’s edible tuberous root.

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19
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hedonism

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School of thought that argues that pleasure is the only intrinsically good

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20
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okonomiyaki

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Japanese

cabbage pancake

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22
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tarikh

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Arabic

history

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22
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exegesis

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critical explanation of interpretation of a text, esp of scripture

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23
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tafsir

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Arabic

exegesis

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24
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mubham

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Arabic

implicit, metaphorical

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25
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3ibra

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Arabic

example, lesson, warning

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26
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vignette

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a short descriptive literary text

A brief incident or scene

A picture that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper

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28
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evocation

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The summoning of a spirit

Imaginative recreation

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29
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halogen (original meaning)

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salt formers

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30
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dijobu

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Japanese

Are u alright?

Is it okay?

I am okay

It’s okay

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30
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de mo

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Japanese

but

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31
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bakana

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Japanese

are u stupid?

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32
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kisame

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Japanese

bastard

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33
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lexical gap

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when there isn’t a word for something that there should be a word for

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34
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lacuna

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an unfilled space or interval, a gap

a missing portion in a book or manuscript

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35
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panda jiji

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Japanese

old panda

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37
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iya betsuni

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Japanese

no, it’s nothing

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38
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kaizoku

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Japanese

pirates

39
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anathema

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  • something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
  • a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine

this notion was anathema to most of his countrymen

40
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ferromagnetism

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  • stronger than paramagenetism

- allows a substance to become permanently magnetized when placed in a magnetic field

41
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macob

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Someone who performs a task, job, or procedure with the utmost skill

A true specialist in a certain area who stuns everyone with his/her knowledge and expertise.

Performs with such amazement it is only rivaled by some magicians.

May appear arrogant to some, but make no mistake, this person takes great pride in their skill.

Lives and breathes their job or career.

He’s a bona fide bad ass, a friggin macob!

42
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macabre

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  • Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages
  • Constituting or including a representation of death
43
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ayshtaru

A

Japanese

I love you (seriously)

43
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wakarene

A

Japaneses

Do you understand?

45
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wakari mashta

A

Japanese

understood

45
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saa sa

A

Japanese

now, then…

46
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shik shou

A

Japanese

dammit

47
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futz

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usually used with around

to futz around (to fool around)

futzing

48
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mizu

A

Japanese

water

50
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shik shou

A

Japanese

dammit

51
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chi gao

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Japanese

you’re wrong

52
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mo ya shi

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Japanese

Bean sprout

53
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masaka

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Japanese

it can’t be

54
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hayako

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Japanese

hurry up

55
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bonita

A

Spanish

pretty

55
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usagi

A

Japanese

rabbit

57
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kirai

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Japanese

hate

58
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gregarious

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adj

  • of a person - fond of company; sociable
  • of animals - living in flocks or loosely organized communities
59
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hydrargyrum

A

Latin

water silver

60
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ya boy’

A

Japanese

crap

61
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lascivious

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  • inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man
  • arousing sexual desire: lascivious photographs.
  • indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness: a lascivious gesture.
62
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zishubis

A

Russian

awesome

63
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kasava roadka

A

Russian

the name of a Russian outfit

64
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komorebi

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Japanese

sunlight that filters through the trees – the interplay between the light and the leaves

65
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pochemuchka

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Russian

someone who asks a lot of questions

66
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sobremesa

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Spanish

the period of time after a meal when you have food-induced conversations with the people you have shared the meal with.

67
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goya

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Urdu

a contemplative ‘as-if’ that nonetheless feels like reality, and describes the suspension of disbelief that can occur, often through good storytelling

68
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mångata

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Swedish

the glimmering, roadlike reflection that the moon creates on water

69
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zugzwag

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German for “compulsion to move”

a situation found usually in chess, but also in various other games, where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent’s turn to move

70
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Educt

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Reactant

71
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effleurage

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a French word meaning “to skim”

a series of massage strokes used in Swedish massage to warm up the muscles before more pressure is applied

72
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indubious

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not dubious or doubtful; certain

73
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gongoozler

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  • a person who idly watches activity on a canal

- an idle spectator, esp. one who stares for a long time at something

74
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awful

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  • very bad or unpleasant

- archaic: inspiring reverential wonder or fear, awesome

75
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aglet

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the plastic tip on the end of a shoelace

76
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quixotic

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extremely idealistic, unrealistic and impractical

77
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pedantic

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excessively concerned w/minor details or rules, over scrupulous

78
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pedant

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a person who annoys others by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

79
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amorphous solid

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solid w/random molecular structure –> strength of bonds is also random –> therefore m.p. and b.p. occurs over a range and not at a specific T

80
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isotropic

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responds to forces from every direction in the same way

81
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anisotropic

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responds differently to forces depending on direction of impact

82
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obfuscate

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to bewilder, confuse or stupefy;
to make obscure or unclear;
to darken

83
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panegyric

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a public speech or published text in praise of something

84
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cantankerous

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bad tempered, argumentative and uncooperative

85
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contumacious

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stubbornly perverse or rebellious;

willfully and obstinately disobedient

86
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oi

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a type of harsh aggressive punk music originally popular in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s

87
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anthropogenic

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of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature

88
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elasmobranch

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any of a subclass of cartilaginous fishes that have 5-7 lateral to ventral gill opening on each side and that comprise of sharks, rays, skates and extinct related fishes.

89
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tableau

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a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history;
or
anything that is kickass or beastly

90
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pelagic

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  • of, relating to, or living or occurring in the open sea

- pelagic zone is any water in a sea or lake that is neither close to the bottom nor near the shore

91
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enigmatic

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difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious

92
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coxcomb

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  • a jester’s cap adorned with a strip of red

- a conceited foolish person

93
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lackadaisical

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lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.

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