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Realm

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A community or territory.
An area or sphere.

Health as a metaphor also works for all sorts of other areas outside of the realm of mental and physical wellness.

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Intensify

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To make intense

If you have a real solution, identifying with the frustration first intensifies the immediate desire for that solution.

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Resentment

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Anger, bitterness

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Prompt

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A reminder or cue.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is determined by the level of emotional identification the word prompts.

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Strike

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To hit sharply

Strike a nerve
Strike fear

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Worth (adj.)

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A person worth millions.

It’s worth the effort.

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Legendary

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Relating to legend.
Very famous.

There is a rumour that the legendary Paper Moon baker is hard at work.

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Monogamous

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The practice of having a single partner during a period of time.

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness.

The condition of engaging in sex only with one’s partner in a sexual relationship.

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Hinge

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n. A jointed device.
v. To attach by.

Your ability to collaborate with others and ultimately succeed, hinges on the ability to write effectively.

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Vigorous

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Strong, robust, effective.
Vigorous English comes from passion, focus and intention.

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Droll

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Humorous, amusing
Griffin shot him a droll look.

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impoverishment

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Act of making poor

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erode

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Slowly consume.

The Napoleonic wars have eroded France’s power.

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reciprocal

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Mutual, given in return.

China has no reciprocal appetite for British goods.

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alter

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Change.

Silver keeps flowing to China, and there’s nothing the British can do about it because they can’t alter supply and demand.

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coercive

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Forceful.

The wealth of British depends on coercive extraction.

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coercion

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Compulsion.
Use of force.

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mundane

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Normal.

It was all so mundane.

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bone-cuttingly cold

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The air had gone from pleasantly chilly to bone-cuttingly cold.

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fidgety

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Nervous and unable to relax.

Griffin seemed fidgety; Robin suspected they would soon part away.

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petulant

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Annoyed.

Robin sounded more petulant than he’d intended.

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indispensable

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Essential.

“You are indispensable.” Robin knew better than to respond.

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legitimacy

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lawfulness.

The majority refuse to accept the legitimacy of structural racism and and its symptoms.

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entitlement

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State of having a right.

I can halt the entitlement they feel towards me and I’ll start that by stopping the conversations.

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Evaporate

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  • turn into vapor, vanished.
  • All the strange awfulness of their third year had evaporated with with the news that they’d passed their exams.
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Proletarian

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Worker,
Member of the lowest social class

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By circumstance.

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A condition; event conditioning.
- Athena and I only became friends by circumstance.

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Ploy

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Tactic
- I used to think this act was a ploy for attention.

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Prudent

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Careful, sensible

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Prudent

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Careful, sensible

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Prudent

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Careful, sensible

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Conspiracy

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  • Plot, serect plan.
  • He felt seized by a sudden urge to determine the full extend of this conspiracy.
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squeamish

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  • easily nauseated or disgusted.
  • fastidious or dainty
  • easily shocked by anything slightly immodest
  • I was in too much pain to feel embarrassed or squeamish.
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miscarriage

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  • the expulsion of a fetus before it is viable.
  • I knew they were testing for pregnancy because they thought I was having a miscarriage.
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gospel

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  • the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.
  • 福音書
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traitorous

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  • having the character of a traitor.
  • my tongue felt huge and traitorous in my month.
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traitor

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  • a person who betrays another person
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calculating

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  • you are making him sound very calculating.
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blemish

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  • I spent several minutes carefully disguising the small blemishes on my face with makeup and powder.
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pimple

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  • a small, usually inflammatory swelling or elevation of the skin
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laborious

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  • requiring much work.
  • Checking all the names was a slow, laborious job.

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