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Epoilogue

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Concluding section of the story

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Pathos

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Arouses feelings of pity sympathy and sorrow

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3
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Ferret

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To uncover and bring to light by searching

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Surreptitious

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Obtained by stealth

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Conflagration

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A very intense and uncontrolled fire

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Profligate

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Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated

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Efface

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To wipe out

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Dissimulation

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To hide under a false appearance

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Concomitant

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Existing or occurring with something else often in a lesser way

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Countenance

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Bearing or expression mental composure

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Dejection

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Depression or lowness of spirits

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Paroxysm

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A sudden violent outburst

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13
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Affable

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Pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to

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Exculpate

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To clear from a charge of guilt or faults

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Rake

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And immoral person

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Inexorable

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Unyielding, unalterable

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Carte Blanche

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Unconditional authority

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Obsequious

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Characterized by serval complacence or deference

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Axiom

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A self evident truth that requires no proof

20
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Arbiter

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A person who decides and determines matters like a judge

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Inured

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To a custom to hardship, difficulty, pain

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Pernicious

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Causing insidious harm or ruin

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Propensity

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Natural inclination or tendency

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Louse

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Any of numerous small flat bodied wingless biting or sucking insects

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Schism

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Division or disunion

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Deference

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Respect full submission or courteous yielding

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Stultify

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To render useless or ineffectual

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Harbinger

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Person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another

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Casuistry

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Deceptive or over subtle reasoning

30
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Peremptory

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Putting an end to all debate or action