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Evocative

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to tend to evoke or draw up something.

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Ferreted

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search tenaciously for and find something

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Ferment

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Agitation;Unrest;Excitement

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Imperious

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dictatorial; overbearing

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Viable

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capable of surviving

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Inherent

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a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute

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Vociferous

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loud, insistent (crying may be involved)

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Fiscal

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government expenditures, revenues, and debt.

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Sovereignty

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unlimited power over a country

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Quorum

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the minimum number of members present for the group to be able to make legally binding decisions

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Buoyant

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not easily depressed or cheerful; happy or positive

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Mired

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to involve; entangle.

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Insurgents

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a rebel or revolutionary

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Impasse

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a conflict where progress is impossible, usually because of a disagreement

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Harbinger

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a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

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Recalcitrant

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resisting control; not obedient or compliant.

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Mollify

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to reduce the intensity

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Dismember

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to separate into parts

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Urbanity

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to be sophisticated, formal; refinement and elegance of manner.

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Arduous

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Requiring great exertion

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Despotism

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Absolute power or control; tyranny

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Posterity

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Descendants

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Agrarian

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of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.

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Intrusive

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to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome

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Crass

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Lacking sensitivity

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Dialectic

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logical justification employed in investigating a truth or opinion

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Patronage

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the power to appoint government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.

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Bureaucracy

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a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected

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Abstruse

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hard to understand

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Belligerents

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a nation or person engaged in war or conflict.

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Insolence

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Rude behavior or speech

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Faction

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A group within a larger group, party, government (political party)

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Voracious

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Exceedingly eager

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Vilify

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to say or write very harsh and critical things about (someone or something)

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Innocuous

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Harmless, not offensive

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Disseminate

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Spread or disperse widely

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Nullify

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declare legally void or inoperative

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Logjam

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A deadlock/impasse

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Perpetuate

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To cause something that should be stopped to continue.

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Precedent

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Something that occurred previously that acts as a model.

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Succession

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the descent or transmission of a throne, dignity, estate

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