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Indispensible

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Absolutely necessary

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Requisite

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needed for a particular purpose : ESSENTIAL, NECESSARY

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Cardinal

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1 : of basic importance
//a cardinal principle
2 : very serious or grave
//a cardinal sin

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Endowment

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1 : the act or process of endowing
2 : something that is endowed
specifically : the part of an institution’s income derived from donations
3 : natural capacity, power, or ability
//a person of great intellectual endowment

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Determination

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1a law : a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy
//the court’s determination in that case
//documents that will be used for the determination of ownership
//judicial determinations
b : the resolving of a question by argument or reasoning
//Inspectors made the determination that the building is unsafe.

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Extent

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1a : the range over which something extends : SCOPE
//the extent of her jurisdiction
b : the amount of space or surface that something occupies or the distance over which it extends : MAGNITUDE
//the extent of the forest
c : the point, degree, or limit to which something extends
//using talents to the greatest extent

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Provision

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Rapidity

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Astonishing

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Skin through

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Suffice

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Glance through

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Offing

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Advocates

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Displeased

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Condemn

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Persistent

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Blunders

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Inclined

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Siege

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Reverberated

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Incessantly

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Crimson

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Necking

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Prostrate

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Leap out

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Benefactor

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Rationalize

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Fallacious

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