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1
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Elucidate

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Make something clear; explain

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Purport

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Claim; appear to be/ or do something (falsely); profess

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Emanate

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Emerge; exclude; (a feeling) issue or spread out from (a source)

I.e. phenomenon emanating from the west

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Culminate

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Come to a climax or point of highest development

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Envisage

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Foresee; imagine; contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event

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Exacerbate

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Aggravate; make (a problem, bad situation or a negative feeling), worse

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Dissemination

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Spreading; the act/fact of spreading something, especially information, widely
(보급, 유포)

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Unchartered

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“Without a charter” or “without a regulation; lawless”

Uncharted :- unexplored

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Discourse

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Discussion; essay; written/spoken communication/debate

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Perpetuates

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Keep alive; make something continue indefinitely

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Detriment

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Harm; the state of being harmed/ damaged

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Indigenous

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Native; originating/naturally occurring in a particular place

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Exodus

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Mass departure of people

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Relegate

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Downgrade; consign/dismissed to an inferior rank/position

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Valorize

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Give/ascribe value or validity to something

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Paramount

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Most important than anything else; supreme (having supreme power)

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Bifurcate

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Divide into two branches/forks

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Dichotomise

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Regard/represent as divided or opposed (양분되다)

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Vocational

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Relating to an occupation or employment

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Binary

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Relating to;composed of, or involving two things

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Stratified

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Formed/arranged into strata or layers (몇개의 층으로 이루어진)

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Amalgamated

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Combine or unite to form one organisation or structure

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Omnipresent

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Present everywhere; widely/constantly encountered (widespread)

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Primacy

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Greater importance; the fact of being pre-eminent/ most important

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Medication

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Conciliation; intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration.

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Incinerated

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Burn; destroy something by burning

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Marginalisation

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Treatment of a person/group/concept as insignificant or peripheral

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Imperative

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Vitally important; crucial; peremptory; giving an authoritative command

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Curtail

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Reduce(in extent or quantity); impone a restriction on

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Adept

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Expert; very skilled ore proficient in something

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31
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Disconcerting

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Unsettling

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Disparate

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Contrasting; essentially different in kind; not able to be compared

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33
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Subjugate

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Dominate; conquer

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34
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Autarky

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Economic independence; self sufficiency

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Caricature

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A picture description or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect

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Epidemiological

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Relating to a branch or medicine which deals with incidence, distribution and control of diseases

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37
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Sparse

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Scanty; thinly dispersed or scattered

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38
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Intricate

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Complex; very complicated or detailed

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39
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Philanthropic

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Charitable; seeking to promote the welfare of others; generous& benevolent

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Prerogative

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Entitlement; a right or prevailed exclusive to a particular individual or class

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41
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Endemic

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(Of a disease/condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area
(Or a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place

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42
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Emancipation

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The fact or process of being set free from legal, social or political restriction; liberation

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Sporadically

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Occasionally at irregular intervals

44
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Aphorism

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A pithy observation which contains general truth

45
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Erroneous

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Wrong; incorrect

46
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Adversary

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Opponent

47
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Actuate

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Motivated; activate

48
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Elicit

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Obtained; evoke or draw out

49
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Remnant

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Remains; scrap

50
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Fallacious

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Erroneous; based on a mistaken belief

51
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Enagmatical

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Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious

52
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Infallible

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong; unerring; never failing

53
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Doctrine

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교훈

54
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Infamy

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The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed; notoriety; wickedness

55
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Stoical

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Long suffering; enduring pain and hardship without showing one’s feeling or complaining.

56
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Eloquently

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In a fluent or persuasive manner

57
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Anachronism

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An act of attributing a custom, event or object to a period to which it does not belong

58
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Alluding

A

Refer to

59
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Reticent

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Reserved; not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings easily.

60
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Exhortation.

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Urging someone to do something

61
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Pecuniary

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Of or relating to money.

I.e. pecuniary needs/aids etc.

62
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Negate

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Invalidate / deny

63
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idyosyncratic

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Distinctive; peculiar

64
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Precariousness

A

State of being dangerously likely to fall or collapse

위태롭군

65
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Emancipate

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Set free, especially from legal political or social restrictions

66
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Perennially

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In a way that contimes for a long or apparently an infinite time.
On a yearly basis for a several years.

67
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Pernicious

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Harmful, or having a harmful effect in a gradual subtle way

68
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Recapitulate

A

Summarize

69
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Embellish

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Decorate / elaborate.

70
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Frivolous

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  1. Not having any serious purpose or value.

2. (Of a person)carefree & superficial.

71
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Locus.

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  1. a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated.
  2. (Math def)A curve or other figure formed by all the points satisfying a particular equation of relation between coordinates or point, lines, surface moving

I.e. Suffer from an external locus of identity.

72
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Maudlin

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  1. Self pityingly or tearfully sentimental.
  2. ( of a book, film or song) highly sentimental

I.e. a maudlin display of emotions.

73
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Ubiquitous.

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Present, appearing or found everywhere

74
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Lucrative

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Producing a great deal of profit

75
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Demarcate

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Separate; set boundaries, limits of

76
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Salient

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most noticeable; important

77
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Incertitude

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Uncertainty, a absence of assurance or confidence, doubt

The quality or state of being unstable or insecure.

78
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Metamorphosis

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The process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different form.

79
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Normative

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Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour.

80
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Multistate

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Having divisions in several states

Of, relating to, or involving several states

81
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Encroachment

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Intrusion on a person’s territory, rights etc.

A gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits

82
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Conflation

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The merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one.

83
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Acquiesce

A

Permit, accept something reluctantly but without protest

84
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Inertia

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Inactivity
A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
A property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force

85
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Purport

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Claim

Appear to do something, especially falsely

86
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Enumerate

A

List, calculate

Mention (a number of things) one by one

87
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Antinomy

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A contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable, a paradox
(자기모순)

88
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Conjecture

A

An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information

89
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Misapprehension

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Misunderstanding

A mistaken belief about or interpretation of something

90
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Postulate

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Put forward

Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion or belief.

91
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Apodictic

A

Clearly established or beyond dispute

92
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Immanent

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Inherent
Pervasive
Existing or operating within

93
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Polysemy

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The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.

94
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Adversarial

A

Involving or characterised by conflict or opposition

95
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Pretension

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Aspiration
Pretentiousness
A claim or assertion of a claim to do something
The use of affection to impress
요구, 자부
96
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Pertinent

A

Pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant
I.e. pertinent details

97
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Profess

A

Declare
Claim
Claim that one has a quality or feeling, especially when this is not the case
Affirm one’s faith in or allegiance to a religion or a set of beliefs

98
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Levity

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Light-hearted ness
Fickleness
The treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect

99
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Exempt

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Free from

Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others

100
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Semblance

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Appearance

The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different

101
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Adduce

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Cite

Cite as evidence

102
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Enounce

A

Utter or pronounce (words)

103
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Vicissitude

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Change
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
Alteration between opposite or contrasting things

104
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Ubiquity

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The fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common

105
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Inextricably

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In a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate

106
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Reified

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Make something more concrete or real

107
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Polysemy

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The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase

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