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Democracy

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A system of government in which the power is vested in the people who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives Democratic institutions , such as a parliament, may exist in a monarchy

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Laggard

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A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others

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Prowess

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Skill or expertise

Bravery in battle

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Immigrant

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A person who comes to live permanent in a foreign country

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Emigrant

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To leave p e country and settle on another country

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Apace

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Swiftly; quickly

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Well- trodden

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Much frequented by travelers

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Burqa

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A covering of the whole body

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Traipse

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Walk or move wearily reluctantly

Trudge , trek, tramp, tromp, trail, Los, slog, schlep.

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Doughty

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Brave and persistent

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Caprice

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A sudden, unpredictable change, as of one’s mind or the weather

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Dinghy

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A small boat for recreation or racing

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Mad cow disease

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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Adage

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An old and well- known saying that expresses a general truth

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Semblance

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The outward appearance or apparent form if something , esp when the reality is different

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Internment

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The imprisoned or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial

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Reverberate

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( if a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo

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Mainstay

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A stay that extends from the mail top to the foot of the foremost if s sailing ship

A thing on which something else is based of depends

Farming is the mainstay of the rural community

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Plebe

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Lowest class member at West Point

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Detente

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The easing of hostility or strained relations , especially between cog tried

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Blithely

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Joyous, merry, glad, cheerful

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Elide

Verb

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Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking

Curtail, abridge

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Gaiety

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Lighthearted or cheerful

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Jobbing

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Hire out, rent out, sublet, subcontract

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Baronet

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A man who is a member of the British nobility with rank below a baron

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Alogical

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Opposed to or lacking in Logic

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Illogical

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Lacking sense or clear, sound reasoning

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august

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Respected and impressive

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Inculcating

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Instill ( an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction

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Aliyah

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The immigration of Hews from the diaspora to the and is Israel

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Pull factors

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Something that attracts people to go and live in a particle place

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Prelate

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A bishop or other ecclesiastical dignitary

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Discord

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Lack of agreement

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Yen

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Japan’s currency

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Mend

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A repair on s material

Repair something that is broken of damaged

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Demur

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The action of objection

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Cambrian explosion

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541 million years ago in the Cambrian period in which most major animal phyla appeared

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Languished

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Lise or lack of vitality

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Osprey

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A damn bird

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Sap

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Gradual weaken or destroy

Our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians

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Mend

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Repair

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Irreducible

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Not able to be reduced or simplified

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Woolly

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Vague or confused in expression

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Deflation

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A decrease in the general price of goods and services

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Inflation

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General increase in prices for goods and services

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Decrepitude

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State of decrepit

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Backlog

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The accumulation of something , especially in completed work

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Spur

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To urge , give an incentive, cause or promote development

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Underlings

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A person lower in status of rank

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Fraudster

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A person who commits fraud

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Spook

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A ghost, spy,

To be frighten; unnerve

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Spoof email

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Forgery of an email header

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Scour

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To clean diligently

To look through carefully

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Wile

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Lure, entice

Devious or cunning

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Tryst

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A private , romantic rendezvous

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Bristle

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Stand upright away from the skin , esp in anger or fear

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Plenary

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Adj

Attended by all the people who have the right to attend

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Bevy

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A large group of people or things of a particular kind

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Vamp

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The part of a shoe upper or boot covering

A short introductory musical passage often repeated several times

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Temper

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To make something less severe or extreme

To cause something , such as steel or glass, to become hrs of strong by heating it and cooling it

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Portmanteau

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A large truck or suitcase typically made of stuff leather and opening into equal parts

Consisting of a combining two or more separable aspects of qualities A word of morpheme whose firm and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms- as smog from smoke and fog

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Criterion(single) v criteria (plural)

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A basis go comparison ; a reference pint against which other things can be evaluated

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Data (plural) versus Datum (singular)

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A collection of facts

An item of factual info

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Scuttle

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To bail out of a bad situation before things get even worse

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Bode

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Be an omen of s particular outcome

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Miff

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To annoy

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Mollify

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Appease the anger or anxiety of ( someone)

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Fillip

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Something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity

Boost, incentive, impetus, stimulus

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Exchequer

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Government department of the UK responsible for the management and collection of taxes

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Bibelots

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A small, decorative ornament or trinket

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Reliquary

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A container for holy relics

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Throes

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

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Corybantic

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Old , frenzied

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Careen

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Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specific direction

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Morsel

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A small piece or amount of food , s mouthful

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Cordon

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Prevent access to or from by surrounding it with police or other guards

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Promenade

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A stroll or walk, esp in a public place , as for pleasure or display

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Phalanx

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A body of troops or olive officers , standing or moving in close formation

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Precipitous

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Dangerously high or steep

Done suddenly and without careful observation

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Imbue

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Inspire or permeate with a feeling of quality

Permeate, saturate, diffuse, suffuse, pervade, bathe, French, steep

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Propriety

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Decorum ,

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Efficacy

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The ability to produce a desired or blended result

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Beset

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(Of a problem or difficulty) trouble or threaten persistently

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Deplore

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Feel or express strong disapproval

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Befit

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Be approximate for; suit

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Throng

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A large, densely packed crowd of people or animals

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Stoked

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Encourage or incite ( a strong emotion or tendency)

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Wallop

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Strike of hit someone/thing very hard

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Rankle

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Cause annoyance or resentment that persists

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Rifts

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A fissure, break I. Friendly relations

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Incumbent

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Necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility

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Amiable

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Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

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Deferential

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Showing deference; respectful

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Libtard

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Liberal + retard.

Too ideal. Wishing to live in an ideal world instead of accepting how things are

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Opulent

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Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish

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Procure

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Obtain (something) esp with care or effect

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Calamity

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A disaster

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Sieve

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An instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts

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Permafrost

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A thick subsurface layer of soil they tendons frozen. Chiefly in the polar regions

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Febrile

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Having or showing s great deal of nervous excitement of energy

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Beset

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Trouble or threaten persistently

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Reais

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Currency of Brazil

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Sage

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A plant

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Sanguine

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Optimistic or positive

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Sleaze

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Immoral, sordid , and cut root behavior

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Mire

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Entangle, embroil , involve involved in a difficult situation

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Beholden

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Owing thanks or having s duty to someone I. Return for help of a service

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Scupper

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To prevent from working ; thwart ruin , sabotage, spoil

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Entente

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A friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions

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Petulance

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The quality of being childishly sulky or bad tempered

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Rife

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(Esp of something undesirable or harmful) of common occurrence ; widespread

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Precarious

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Unpredictable

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Embolden

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Give someone the courage or confidence to do something of to behave in a certain way
Encourage , strengthen, brace

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Capacitance

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The ratio of an impressed charge on s conductor to the corresponding change in potential

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Catamaran

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A type of boat or ship

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Apace

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Swiftly; quickly

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Metronome

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A device that produces regular ticks.

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Metallurgist

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Involved in extracting and processing metals

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Proliferator

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To grow quickly , an agent that causes proliferation

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Indigenize

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To grow local participation

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Managing steel

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Iron alloys

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Muon

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Unstable subatomic particle

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Contour

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The outline or outer edge of something

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Rejigger

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Organize something differently ; rearrange

125
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Thrall

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Servitude, slave

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Throng

Adj

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A large, densely packed crowd of people of animals

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Liar

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Remote sensing technique that measures distance

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Purports

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Appear or claim to be or do something , esp falsely; profess

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Swath

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A broad strip or area of something

Vast swaths of countryside

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Beget

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Give rise to; bring about

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Mooring

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Any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured

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Fret

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To cause to suffer emotional strain

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Trough

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A long , narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of

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Cabal

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A small group of people working together secretly

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Bemoan

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Express discontent or sorrow over something

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Innumerable

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Too many to be counted ( often used hyperbolically )

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Immodest

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Lacking humility or decency

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Edicts

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An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority

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Injunction

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An authoritative warning or order

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Deference

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A way of behaving that shows respect for someone or something

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Pinotage

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Ted wine grape grow in South Africa

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Opacity

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Opaqueness ; obscurity in meaning

143
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Conscript

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Enlist someone compulsory , typically into the armed service

144
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Stringent

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(Of regulation , requirement, or condition)
Strict, precise, and exacting

Strict, firm, severe, demanding

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Brunt

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The worse part or chief impact of a specified thing

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Alighted

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Descend from a train or other form of transportation

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Subsidy

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A form of financial aid of support to an economic Sector in the hope of promoting economic and social policy

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Fret

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Constant worry or anxious

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Geranium

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Flower

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Prefect

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A chief officer, magistrate , or regional governor in certain Countries

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Crèche

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A nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the work day

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Sequestered

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( of a place) isolated and hidden away

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Mensch

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An admired and respected person

154
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Mollify

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Appease the anger or anxiety

Conciliate, soothe, appease, assuage

155
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Exchequer

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The UK’s equivalent of the IRS

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Fillip

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Something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity

157
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Bibelots

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A small decorative ornament or trinket

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Reliquary

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A container for holy relics

159
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Throes

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Intense or violent pain

Agony, torment , torture , etc

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Corybantic

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Wild, frenzied

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Concerted

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Jointly arranged

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Contempt of court

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Offense of being disobedient or disrespectful towards a court of law

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly refusing to obey rules or orders

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Scaremongering

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One inclined to raise or excite alarms esp needlessly

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Deleveraging

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The process or practice of reducing the level of one’s debt by rapidly selling one’s assets

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Onus

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Used to refer to something that is one’s duty or responsibility
Burden, responsibility, obligation, lad, encumbrance

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Sate

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Fill, replete, satiate , quench hunger

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Brown planthopper

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A bug that feeds on rice

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Stodgy

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Dull and uninspired

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Throng

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A large, densely packed crowd of people

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Wont

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In the habit of doing something, accustomed, habit

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Signatories

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A party that has signed an agreement , esp a country that has signed a treaty

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Bête noire

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A person or thing that one particularly dislikes

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Oblige

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Be thankful, indebted, grateful

Obligated ,

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Imbue

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Inspire or permeate with feeling or quality

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Cagey

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Reluctant to give info owing to caution or suspicion

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Retort

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Say something in answer to a remark or accusation , typically in a sharp , angry, or witty incisive manner

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Incipient

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In an initial stage, beginning or develop

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Strife

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Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict

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Gentrification

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Buying and renovating in urban areas by wealthier people and the displacement of its poorer residents

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Blight

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Something that causes harm or damage like a disease

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Glad- handing

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Esp of politicians where they greet and warmly or with the appearance of warmth

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Deign

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Do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity

She did not deign to answer the maid’s question

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Vilification

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Abusively disparaging speech or writing , slander, defaming, aspersions

The vilification of minority grouping

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Deft

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Skillful and clever

Able to do something quickly and accurately

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Comity

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Courtesy and considerate behavior towards others

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Pang

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A sudden sharp pain or painful emotion

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Procurement

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The action or occupation of acquiring military equipment and supplies
Defense procurement

The action of obtaining or procuring something

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Ingenu

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Beleaguer

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Beset, beset with difficulties

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Travail

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Engage in painful or laborious effort

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Bigwig

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A powerful and impt person

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Underwhelm

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Fail to impress or make a positive impact

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Demi- monde

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The class of women (19th century France) considered to be doubtful morality and social standing

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Irrelevance

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Act of being irrelevant

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Proffer

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Hold out to someone for acceptance

Offer, extend,

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Kodo Kai

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Criminal organization from Nagoya, Japan

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Bemoan

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Express discontent or sorrow over something

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Strident

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Loud and harsh

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