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Paroxysm

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A sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity

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Vaunt

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Boast about or praise, especially excessively

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Buoy

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An anchored floating ….

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Meridional

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People living in the south

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Consortia plural

Consortium singular

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Combination of companies

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Shoring up

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To support, help out

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Reputed

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Though, said, alleged, supposed, putative,

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Entreaty, entreaties

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An earnest or humble request

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Expropriation

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Taking private property by the gov for the benefit of the public

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Modus operandi

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A particular way of doing something , esp one that is well established

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Requisite

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Necessary for a articulate achievement

Necessary, required, essentiAl

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Sleuth

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Investigate , carry out a search

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Sine qua non

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Something that is absolutely necessary

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Brine

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Solution of water, sugar , salt

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Regolith

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Rocky material covering bedrock

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Sobriety

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State of being sober

Quality of being staid of solemn

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Harrowing

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Acutely distressing

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Machiavelli

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Founder of modern political science

Italian historian, philosopher ,etc.

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Realpolitik

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Politics of diplomacy based primarily on consideration of power and on practical an material factors , rather than explicit ideological notions or moral or ethical premises

A system of politics based on a country’s situation and its needs rather than on ideas about what is morally right or wrong

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Coolie

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Unskilled Asian laborer, usually in reference to long ago

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Glitterati

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Social elites ,

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Unwitting

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Not aware of the full facts

Not done on purpose

Unintentional

The late great Yogi Berra was known as an unwitting philosopher

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Quip

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A witty remark

Berra was known for his quip.

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Sage

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Wise person

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Spate

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A large number of similar things or events appearing of occurring in quick succession

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Plasmodium falciparum

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Bacteria that causes malaria

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Unicameral

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Having s single legislative chamber

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Figleaf

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Something that covers something embarrassing

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Astride

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With one leg on each side

Extending across

With legs apart

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Dubious

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Hesitating or doubting

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Futility

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Pointlessness or uselessness

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Placard

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Notice, poster, sign , advertisement

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Bemoan

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Express discontent and sorrow over

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Tempered

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Adj
Having s specific temper or disposition

ill- tempered

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Exultant

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Triumphantly happy

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Bereaved

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Be deprived of a loved one through s profound absence esp due to the lives one’s death

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Plutocrats

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Oligarchy

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Bewitch

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To use magic to make someone do, think, or say something

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Millennial

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A person reaching adulthood around the year 2000

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Tort reform

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Advocates procedural limits on the ability to file claims and capping the awards of damages

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Rein

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Ability to control or limit

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Firmament

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The sky

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Feckless

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Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible

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Lull

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Calm or send to sleep

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Relent

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Subside, abate, lessen

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Genteel

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Polite, refined, often in an affected or ostentatious way

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47
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Niqab

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What Mead wears

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Dismay

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Feel consternation Ann’s distress

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Vet

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Investigate

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Torrent

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A strong and fast moving stream of water

S sudden, violent. And copious outpouring of something typically words or feelings

She was subjected to a torrent of abuse

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Rife

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Esp of something undesirable or harmful of common occurrence ; widespread adj
Male chauvinism was rife in medicine in those days

N an unchecked or widespread manner
Adverb Speculations ran rife that he was an arms dealer

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52
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Forebear

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An ancestor

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53
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Polity

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A form or process of civil gov or constitution

An organized society ; a state as a political entity

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Slew

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A large number or amount of extent

A slew of air strikes against …

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Spruce

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Make a person or lace smarter of tidier

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Loggerheads

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To insult by calling then idiots

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Undercurrent

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Flow of water below surface

A hidden feeling of tendency that is usually different from one that is easy to see or understand

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Dogged

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Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

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59
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Dovetail

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Joint together

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60
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Peroration

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The concluding part of the speech typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in her audience

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Bavarois

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Dessert similar to pastry cream

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Presage

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Sign that something bad will happen

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Supranational

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Having power or influence that transcends national boundaries or governments

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Flagging

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Becoming progressing my less

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65
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s

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Famous auction houses

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Swashbuckle

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Engage in daring and romantic adventures with ostentatious bravado or flamboyance

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Toehold

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A relatively insignificant position from which further progress may be made

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Inducements

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A thing that persuades or influences someone to do something

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Hedge fund

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A limited partnership of investors that uses high risk methods such as investing with borrowed money in hopes of large gains

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Asset management

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Managing on behalf of others

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71
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Artemisinin

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Drugs against malaria , plasmodium falciparum

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Harbinger

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

Gerald, sign , signal, augury,

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Epitaph

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A phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, esp as an inscription on a tombstone

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Denunciation

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Public condemnation of someone or something

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Devolve

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Transfer or delegate power to a lower level esp from a central gov to local adm.

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Peter

Verb

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Decrease of fade gradually before coming to an end

The storm has petered out

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Hors d’ oeuvres

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A food served in small portions before the main part of the meal

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Quell

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Put an end to

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Lest

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With the intention of preventing ( something undesirable ) ; to avoid the risk of

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Pork barrel politics

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Spending which is intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support, either in the form of campaign contributions or votes

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Temperance

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Moderation or self restrained esp on eating and drinking

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In loco parentis

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Of a teacher or other adult responsible for children in place of a parent

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Copts

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Egyptian Christian community 10 percent of population

84
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Biometrics

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Metrics related to human characteristics used in computer science as a form of identification

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Signatory

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A party that had signed an agreement esp in a treaty

86
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Kludge

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An ill- assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose

87
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Film noir

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A style of moviemaking Giron the 40d and 50s developed by some French dude. The images of film uses black silhouettes , dark gloomy images , black and white of course, etc.

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Layabout

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Person who does little work

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Spliff

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A marijuana cigarette

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Envisage

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Imagine, contemplate, visualize,

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Environs

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The surrounding area or district

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Aver

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State or assert to be the truth

93
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Tack

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Change of course

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Saffron

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A spice orangey

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Moot

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Raise a question or topic for discussion ; suggest an idea or possibility

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Hawkishness

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Advocating war or a belligerently threatening diplomatic policy

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Mellifluous

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Of a voice or words sweet or musical ; pleasant to hear

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Wayward

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Difficult to control or predict

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Interspersed

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Scatter among or between other things ,place here and there , diversify

100
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Rector

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A member of the clergy

The head of certain universities, colleges, and schools

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Complicity

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State of being involved with others in a illegal activity or wrongdoing

102
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Apostasy

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The abandonment or reunification of a religious or political belief

103
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Chancy

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Subject to unpredictable changes and circumstances
Possibly having bad results
Involving chance or risk

104
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A thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met

A

Sop

My agent telephones ad s dip but never finds me work

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Brexit

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Blend of words referring to the UK as exiting the EU.

A British exit from the EU

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Parsimony

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Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

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Seethe

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To feel or show strong emotion such as anger even though you try to control it
To be in a state of constant activity

108
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Pirogue

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A long narrow canoe made from a single tree trundle so on Central America and the Caribbean

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Macabre

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Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury

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Spratly Islands

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Disputed area in South China Sea with the Philippines , Malaysia, and South Vietnam

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Bemoan

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Express discontent or sorrow over something

Single women bemoan the absence of men.

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A pig on a poke

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Buyer beware

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Tawdry

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Having a cheap and ugly appearance

Morally bad or low

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Tumultuous

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Making a loud, confused noise, uproarious

Excited confused, or disorderly

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Politburo

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The man group of people in a communist gov who make decisions about policy

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Envisage

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Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility

117
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Iteration

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The repetition of a process or utterance

118
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Crestfallen

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Sad and disappointed

119
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Rebuff

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Reject

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Antipathy

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A deep- seated feeling of dislike ; aversion

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Ne’er-do-wells

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A person who is lazy and irresponsible

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Taciturn

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Reserved : saying little

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Deft

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Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movement

124
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Malaise

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Feeling of discomfort, illness or uneasiness

125
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Coalesce

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Come together and form one mass of whole

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Thwarted

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Recent someone from accomplishing something

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Anemic

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Adj Suffering from anemia

Anemia noun - pallid, weak, vapid, colorless etc

128
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Tack

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Change of course

Veer, swerve

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Madhesi

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People of southern Nepal. Indigenous group

130
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Drub

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Hit or beat someone repeatedly

Defeat throughly in a match or contest

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Furor/furore

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An outbreak of public anger

132
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Millisievert

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The measure of the absorption of radiation by the human body

133
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Jejune

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Naive, simplistic, superficial

Of ideas or writing - dry and uninterested

134
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Agbogbloshie

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Former wetland in Ghana now a dumping ground for e-waste

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Samosa

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Fried or baked pastry

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Throes

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Intense or violent pain and struggle esp during birth, death, or great change

137
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Manteau

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A loose cloak, coat, or robe

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Majlis

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Arabic for place of sitting

139
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Stubble

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The cut stalk of grain plants left sticking of the ground after the grain is harvested

Shoe stiff hair on a man’s face when not shaven for a while

140
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Depose

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Remove from office suddenly

Testify to give evidence on oath

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Awash

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Covered or flooded

Containing large number or amounts

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Plodding

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Slow moving and unexciting

A hardworking person but lacking imagination or intelligence

143
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Travail

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Engage in a painful of laborious effort

Of a woman be in labor

144
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Guff

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Foolish nonsense

Annoying of playful criticism

145
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Barclays

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A British bank

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Tart up

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Fancy up, dress up

147
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Flutter

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Verb- of a verb or other winged creature , fly unsteady of hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly

Noun an act of flattering , a small bet

148
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Coywolf

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Hybrid between a wolf and coyote and/ or dog

149
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Lupine

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Wolf like

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Tawdry

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Showy but cheap and of or quality

151
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Eyre

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Traveling judge during medieval times

152
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Loggerhead

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Calling someone an idiot

A sea turtle

153
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Down the heel

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Looking cheap poor or dirty

154
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Itinerant

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Travels from place to place

155
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Spoofing

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A large number of small orders are placed electronically to create the illusion of demand and drive prices higher before they are cancelled

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Whinge

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Complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way

157
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Gallows

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A structure thi ally of two uprights and a crosspiece for the hanging of criminals
Execution by hanging

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Guile

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Sly or cunning intelligence

Craft, cunning, artfulness, art, artifice

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Raison d etat

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A purely political reason for action in the part of a ruler or government , justice, or honesty is involved

160
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Knesset

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Isreal’s parliament

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Succor

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Assistance and support in time of hardship and distress

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Recalcitrant

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Stubborn unyielding

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Erstwhile

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Former, old, onetime, ex, then

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Aspiration

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A hope or ambition

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Traduce

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Slander talk badly about someone

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Allay

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Diminish if put at rest

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Tout

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Attempt to sell something typically by pestering people in an aggressive or bold manner

168
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Respite

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A short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant

169
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Rothenburg and Gonzalez political report

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Just what you think

170
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Slew

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Verb
Turn or slide violently or uncontrollable in a particular direction
The Chevy slewed from side to side
Noun
A large group of things
A slew of birds hit by left engine flying over Jamaica.

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Buffet

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Verb
Knock someone over off course
Afflict or harm
The rough seas buffered the coast

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Bequeath

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Pass down, leave to, hand down

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Retrograde

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Directed or moving backward

Go back in a position or time

174
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Confer

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Grant of bestow

175
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De facto

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In fact, or in effect , whether by right or not

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Exurb

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A district outside a city, esp a prosperous area beyond the suburbs

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and difficult to control

178
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Embolden

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Give someone courage or confidence to do something or to behave in a certain way

179
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Begum

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A Muslim woman of high rank as in India or Pakistan

180
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Febrile

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Adj

Having of showing the symptoms of a fever

181
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Inking

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To become infuriated to the point of hostility

182
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Armistice

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An agreement made by posing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time ; a truce

183
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Somber

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Dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy

Oppressively solemn or sober in mood ; grave

184
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Affront

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An action or remark that cUses outrage or offense

185
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Han Chinese

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Ethnic group to East Asia

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Proffer

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Hold out something to someone for acceptance ; offer
Verb

Noun an offer or proposal

187
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En mass

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I’m a group, all together

188
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Foray

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A sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory ESp to obtain something A raid

189
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Strew

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Scatter or spread things untidily over a surface or area

190
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Quip

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A witty remark

191
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De jure

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According to rightful entitlement or claim , by right

192
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Protectorate

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A state that is controlled and protected by another

193
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Yurt

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Portable , round tent

Common to Mongolians and Turkics

194
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Holy See

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Jurisdiction in Rome of the Catholic Church

Bureaucratic entity

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Jubilee

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A special anniversary of an event esp 25 the year or 50 th

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Roughshod

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Of a horse, having shoes with nail heads projecting to prevent slipping

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Reimpose

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Impose something , esp a law or regulation again after a lapse

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Illiberal

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Opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior
Intolerant, narrow minded,

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Egalitarian

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Belief that all people are equal and deserve dual rights and opportunities

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Draught

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British way of spelling draft

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