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Indian Express Flashcards

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Forges

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Making or shaping

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Perpetrators

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Person who carries harmful or immoral act

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Brazeness

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Something done shamelessly

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Transgressing

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Misbehave

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Poignant

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness & regret

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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive writing or speaking

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Subtle

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Making use of clever & indirect methods

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Percolate

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Filler gradually through a porous surface

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Permeate

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Spread through

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Fissure

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  1. State of incompatiblity

2. Opening

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Legitmacy

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Ability to defence with logic or justification

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Orchestration

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Planning to elements to produce desired effects

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Caveat

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Warning

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Conduit

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Channel (Pass Through)

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Deterrence

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The action of discouraging an action due to fear of consequences

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Mortified

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Embarrased

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Decimation

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Killing a large no. Of population

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Surmise

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Suppose something is true w/o evidence

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Machnismo

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Strong aggressive masculine

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Equestrian

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Relating to horse riding

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Stupor

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Insensibility

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Absolve

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Declared free from guilt

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Swamped

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Flooded

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Teleology

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Doctrine of design & Purpose in matter world

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Radical

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Thorough

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Unputdownable

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(Of a book) so engrossed that one cannot stop reading

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Eschewed

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Deliberately avoid using

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Frevour

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Intense & Passionate Feeling

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Rigour

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Mericulousness (the quality of being extremely thorough)

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Decried

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Denounce publically

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Hue

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Shade

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Tinker

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Attempt to repair something in a casual manner

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Contentious

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Controversial

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Precarious

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Uncertain

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Ad valorem tax

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Tax based on the value

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Teething problems

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Short term problems that arise in early stage

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Illustrious

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Well known, respected and admired for past achievements

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Enthralled

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Capture the fascinated attention Of

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Demure

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Reserve, modest and shy

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Flitting

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Move swiftly and lightly

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Montage

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Technique of selecting, editing, piecing together separate selections of film to form a continuous whole

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Pioneer

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First person to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity

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Trailblazing

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Discovering new outdoor trails

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Synonymous

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Closely associated

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Disseminating

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Spread widely

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Receptive

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Willing to consider and accept new suggestions

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Smitten

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Be strongly attracted to someone or something

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Guzzle

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Eat or drink (Greedily)

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Besotted (Infatuated)

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Inspired with an intense but short lived passion

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Ode

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A classical poem

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Bequeathed

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Leave property for a person by will

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Deternt

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Intended to discourage someone

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Curated

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Select, Organise and look after the items

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Cosmic

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Related to the universe

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Conflation

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The merging of two or more set of information

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Misogyny

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Dislike of content of or ingrained prejudice against women

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Ogling

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Stare at in a lecherous manner

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Helming

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Steering or directing

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Tormentor

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A person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering

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Abuser

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A person who uses something for bad purpose

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Barb

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Projection made from ship hook

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Exorcise

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Completely remove from one’s memory

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Hue and cry

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Commotion ( loud clamour)

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Ostensibly

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Apparently

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Menace

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A person or thing that id likely to cause harm

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Procreate

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To produce off spring

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Primatologist

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People who study primates

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Perils

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Serious and immediate danger

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Marred

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Impair the quality or appearance of

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Ubiquitous

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Present, appearing or found everywhere

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Sagacity

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Wisdom or intelligence

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Goose

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A foolish person

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Impending

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About to happen

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Oust

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Drive out or expel from a position

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Meddling

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Interfere in something that is not one’s concern

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Relentless

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Persistent

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Coerced

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Persuade to do something by using force or threats

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Nuke

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Attack or destroy with nuclear weapons

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Monochromatic

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Containing only one colour

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Dint

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A dent or hollow on the surface

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Podgy

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Fat and chubby

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Frugal

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Simple and plain and costing little

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Convalescing

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Recover one’s health and strength

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Facade

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A deceptive outward appearance

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Stilly

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Quiet with little movement

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Puritanical

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Moralistic

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Brevity

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Shortness of time

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Doughty

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Persistent and brave

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Un flamboyant

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Not tending to attract attention because of their exuberance And confidence

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Saddle

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Burden(someone) with an onerous responsibility or task

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Buttress

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A source of defence or support

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Modest

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Unassuming in the estimation of one’s ability

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Treason

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The action of betraying someone or thing

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Assailed

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Criticised strongly

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Bandwagon

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An activity or cause that has suddenly become popular or fashionable

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Insurmountable

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Too great to be overcome

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Etiologies

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The manner of causation of disease or condition

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Resilience

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The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties

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Unipolar

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Characterised by either depressive or maniac episodes but not both

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Digression

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A temperory departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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Tarnish

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Make less valuable or respected

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Catastrophe

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Disaster

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Honorific

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Showing respect

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Devour

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Eat hungrily or quickly

To be totally absorbed by something powerful

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Castigate

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Reprimand someone severly

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Civility

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Formal politeness & Courtesy in behaviour of speech

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Blimp

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Airship or Barrage balloon

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Impunity

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Exemption from punishment from the consequences of an action

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Stoke

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Encourage or incite

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Embolden

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Give the courage &confidence to do something

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Bigot

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A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.

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Guise

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Likeness

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Saboteur

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Person engaged in sabotage

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal

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Oblique

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Indirectly

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Proliferation

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Rapidly increase in the no. Of something

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Tripartite

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Shared by or involving three parties

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Meritocratic

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An elite group of people whose progress is based on talent rather than class privilege or wealth

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Reinvigorate

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Give new energy or strength to

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Slender

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Barely sufficient in amount

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Conducive

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Beneficial

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Amply

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Enough or more than enough

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Vitiate

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Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of

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Incarceration

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The state of being confined in the prison

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Resilience

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The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties

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Labyrinthine

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Irregular & twisting

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Wrought

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Beaten out or shaped by hammer

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Eminence

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An important or distinguished person

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Indoctrinating

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The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

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Caliphate

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Chief Muslim civil & religious ruler

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Userper

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A person who takes a position of power or importance illegally/force

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Fallacious

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False

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Crèche

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A nursery where babies/ young children are cared during the working day

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Writ

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A piece or body of writing

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Marooned

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Leave trapped & alone man accessible place

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Calamitous

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Disastrous

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Defunct

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No longer existing or functional

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Inundation

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Flood

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Unrelenting

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Implacable (not yielding in strength, severity or determinating)

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Cavernous

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Vast

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Trod or tread

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Walk in a specific way

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Warily

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Carefully

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Transpired

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Be revealed

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Perilous

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Full of danger of risk

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Enlivened

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Make more entertaining/interesting

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Kibosh

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Put an end to

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Parochialism

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Narrow mindedness

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Perilously

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Dangerously

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Plagued

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Cause continuous trouble or distress to

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Cursory

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Hasty & therefore not thorough or detailed

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Scepting

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Not easily convinced

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Garnered

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Gather or collect

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Blaspheme

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Speak irrelevantly about God or sacred things

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Toppled

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Overbalance or cause to overbalance &fall

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Rudderless

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Lacking a clear sense of one’s aim or principles

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