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Pedagogy

A

The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.

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Holy grail

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A distant, near impossible goal

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Virulent

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Hostile, highly infectious

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Transient

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Temporary, brief, transitory

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5
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Crackle

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A fizzing, popping sound

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6
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Eugenics

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The science of improving a Human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of a desirable heritable characteristic

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rigid

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Stiff, Fixed

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parthenogenesis

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reproduction from a single gamete without fertilisation

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promiscuous

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Made withoutcarefulchoice;indiscriminate

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