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Segregation

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The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart

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Persuade

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Cause someone to do something or believe through reasoning or argument

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Pursue

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Follow someone or something in order to catch or attack them

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Refute

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Prove a statement or theory to be wrong or false disprove

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Legislators

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A person who makes laws a memeber of a legislative body

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Module

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An indenpdent self contained unit of a spacecraft

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Legislature

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The legislative body of a county or state

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Premises

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A house or building together with its land and outbuildings occupied by a business or considered in an official context

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Inflation

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The action of inflating. Something or the condition of being inflated

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Enumeration

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The action of mentioning a number of things one by one

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Juxtaposition

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The fact of two things being seen placed close together with contrasting effect

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Statistics

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A fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data

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Contingent

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Subject to chance

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Composition

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The nature of something’s ingredients or constituents the way in which a whole or mixture is made up

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Sought

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Attempt to find something

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Inequality

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Difference in size degree circumstances etc lack of equality

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Countenance

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A persons face or facial expression

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Bulwark

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A person institution or principle that acts as a defense

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Unscrupulous

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Having or showing no moral principles not honest or fair

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Integrate

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Combine one thing with another so that they become a whole

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Scruples

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A feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to morality or propriety of a course of action

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Glib

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Of words or the person speaking them fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

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Malignancy

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The state or presence of a malignant tumor cancer

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Clodhooper

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A large heavy shoe/a foolish awkward or clumsy person

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Rummaging

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Search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle

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Incredulous

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Of a person or their manner unwilling or unable to believe something

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Stilt

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Either of a pair of upright poles with supports for the feet enabling the user to walk at a distance above the ground

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Indignation

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Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment

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Affirmation

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The action or process of affirming something or being affirmed

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Perplexed

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Completely baffled very puzzled

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self confidence

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Strenuously

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In a way that requires great physical exertion

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Prospect

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The possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statement or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Epithet

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An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

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Oxymoron

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A figure or speech in which apparently contradictory terms apper in conjunction e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true

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Understatement

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The presentation of something as being smaller worse or less important then it actually is

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Foreboding

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Fearful apprehension a feeling that something bad will happen

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Unprecedented

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Never done or known before

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Precedent

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An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances

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Controversial

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Giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement

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Uncontroversial

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Not controversial

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Economic

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Relating to economics or the economy

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Economical

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Giving good value or service in relation to the amount of money time or effort spent a small economical car

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Legislation

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Laws considered collectively

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Degradation

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Daunting

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Inter

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Intra

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Totalitarian

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Forgo

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