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Decouple

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Separate, disingage, dissociate

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Providential

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Occurring at s favorable time

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Lofty

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Of imposing height

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Gestapo

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Secret state police of German era

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Disavowal

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Denial of any responsibility of support for something

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Jeer

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Make rude remarks ; mocking

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Sclerotic

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Of having sclerosis ; becoming rigid and unresponsive

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Thwart

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Prevent someone from accomplishing something

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Fils

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Currency in many Arab countries

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Gravitas

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Dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner

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Attrition

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Gradually reducing the strengths or effectiveness through sustained attack

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Feint

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A deceptive or presented blow ; especially in boxing

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Aberration

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A departure from what is normal, anomaly, , deviation

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Stoked

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Encore or thrill

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Skulduggery

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Underhanded or unscrupulously behavior ; trickery

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Dispel

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Make a doubt feeling or belief disappear

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Fete

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Honor or entertain someone lavishly

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Promulgate

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Promote of make widely known

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Insouciance

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Casual lack of concern ; indifference

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Fulminate

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Extras vehement protest

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Underwhelm

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Fail to impress

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Fecund

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Capable of producing an abundance or new offspring

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Staunch

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Loyal, a committed in attitude

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Limpet

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Ocean animal that has a soft shell and attached to things

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Punter

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London slang for customer; A “John.”

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Disconcerting

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Causing someone to feel unsettled

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Stave off

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To ward off

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Raring

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Very enthusiastic and eager to do something

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Tory

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In the UK , supporter of the Conservative Party

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Renationalize

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Transfer power back to the state

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Impish

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Playfully showing desire to cause trouble

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Compere

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A person who introduced the performers or contestants in a variety show

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Quell

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Put an end to ( a rebellion of other disorder) typically by the use of force

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Equity capital

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Capital ( as stock or surplus earnings) that is free of debt

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Tranche

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A portion of something , especially money

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Small- bore

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Denoting a firearm with a narrow bore

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Swoon

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Faint from extreme I emotion

Be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires ; become ecstatic

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Apparatchik

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A very loyal member of an organization such as s company of political party who always obeys orders

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Furl

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To wrap of roll such as a flag or sail

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Deplorable

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Shockingly bad in quality

Deserving strong condemnation

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Reprieve

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Cancel or postpone the punishment

Amnesty, pardon

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42
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Nix

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Put an end to , cancel

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43
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Pogonophile

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One who loves beards

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44
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Advert

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To call attention to in the course of speaking or writing

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Denigrate

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Criticize unfairly ; disparage

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Retort

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Say something in answer to a remark of accusation typically in s sharp angry or incisive manner

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Saber- rattling

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The display or threat of military force

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Flagging

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Weak, languid

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49
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Blue blood

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Noble birth

A person of noble birth

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Wholly

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Entirely, fully

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By hook or by crook

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By any means, legal or illegal

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Oil sands

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Mixture of sand, water, clay, and bitumen

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Bitumen

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A black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum Used for road surfacing and roofing

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Ungagging

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To release from a gag order

Release from a gag

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Boffins

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British slang for scientist, engineer, or others in technical work.

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Reveler

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A person who is enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way

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Moot

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Subject to debate dispute and typically not admitting of a final decision (adj)

Raise a question of topic for discussion ; suggest an idea or possibility (verb)

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Beard

Verb

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To confront and oppose with bombed, resolution, and often effrontery

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Shibboleth

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A custom, principle, belief of a particular group regarded outmoded of no longer important

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Abhor

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Regard with disgust and hatred

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Portent

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Omen , sign, warning

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Saccharine

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Too sweet of sentimental I. Ways that does not seem sincere

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Dearth

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A scarcity of lack of something

64
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Bode

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Be an omen of a particular outcome

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Onus

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Refer to something that is one’s duty or responsibility

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Festoon

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Adorn with ribbons, garlands, or other decorations

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Preordained

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Decide or determine an outcome or course of action beforehand

68
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Stoicism

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The endure meant of pain of hardship without display of feeling and without complaint

Patience, forbearance, phlegm , fortitude

69
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Obfuscate

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To make something more difficult to understand

70
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Deplore

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Feel or express strong disapproval

71
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Billow

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Of a fabric, fill with air and swell outward

Of smoke, cloud, or steam mover or flow outward with an undulating motion
Swirl, spiral, undulate, eddy

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Behest

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A person’s orders or command

Instruction, requirement, demand, insistence, bidding, request, wish, desire

73
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Erstwhile

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Former, old, past,

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Aphorism

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S short phrase that presses s true of wise idea

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Prodigious

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Remarkably or impressively great in extent size or degree

Enormous, huge, vast, massive

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Stevedore

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A person whose job is to load and unload ships at s port

77
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FinTech

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Financial technology based on yang software to provide financial services

78
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Histrionics

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Exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention

79
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Peruse

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Read something typically in a thorough of careful way

Examine carefully or at length

80
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Far- flung

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Covering a very large area

Located in a very distant place

81
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Swill

Verb

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Wash or rinse out by pouring large amounts of water or other liquids over or into it

Drink something greedily or n large amounts

82
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Retrenchment

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Cut back on expenses

Can be by reducing workforce

83
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Merriment

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Gaiety and fun

84
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Detente

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Easing of hostility

85
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Protean

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Tending or able to change frequently

Able to do many things ; versatile

86
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Promontory

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A point of high land that juts out bro a large body of water ; a headland

Point, cape, foreland, horn, Bill, peninsula

87
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MenAfriVac

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Vaccine to immunize people against meningitis A

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Terra incognita

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Unknown or unexplored territory

89
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Cogent

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Very clear and easy to understand

90
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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty ending WW1 between Germany and allied powers

91
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Wry

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Dry, mocking humor

92
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Writhing/ writhe

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Respond with great emotion or physical discomfort to a violent or unpleasant feeling or thought
Writhing girls in the village of Salem

93
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Nihilism

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Belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known of communicated
Believe in nothing, no potatoes, no purpose other than perhaps an impulse to destroy

94
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Iota

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9th letter in the Greek alphabet

An extremely small amount

95
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Clemency

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Mercy; lenience

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Ironclad

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Not able to be changed

Too strong to be doubted or questioned

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Thwart

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Prevent someone from doing something

98
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Schengen

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26 European countries that abolished passports usage among its citizens

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Europol

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European police office

100
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Forlorn

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Pitifully sad and abandoned of lonely

Unlikely to succeed ; hopeless

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Forestall

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Prevent or obstruct by taking action ahead of time

102
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Aggregate

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A whole formed by combining elements

103
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Imprudent

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Not showing care for the consequences of an action ; rash

Unwise, injurious, incatious, indiscreet, misguided, ill-advised, Ill-judged

104
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Mettle

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A person’s ability to cope well with difficulties

105
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Joie de vivre

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Exuberant enjoyment of life

106
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Nativism

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The policy of protecting the interests of native- born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

107
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Peripatetic

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Traveling from place to place

108
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Covet

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Yearn to possess or have

109
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Tern

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Sea bird

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Anagram

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Word, phrase , or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters

111
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Monogram

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A motif of two or more letters, typically a person’s initials

112
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Disaffected

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Adj

Dissatisfied with people in authority and no longer willing to support them

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Fringe

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An area of activity that is related to but not par of whatever is central or most widely accepted

114
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Banlieue

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Suburb of France

115
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Wrought- out

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Metal gates fences balconies ect

116
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Dole

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Benefit paid by the gov to the unemployed- UK ( noun)

Verb- distribute shares of something

117
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Alms

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Money, clothes, food given to the poor

118
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Moratorium

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A temporary prohibition of an activity

Embargo, ban, suspension, stay, stoppage, halt

119
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Tout

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Attempting to sell something n an aggressive manner

120
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Pernicious

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Causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

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Canny

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Adj

Showing or having shrewdness and good judgement esp in money and business

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Liability

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Noun

Ate of being responsible for something, legally

123
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Beseech

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Ask someone urgently and feverently to do something , implore, entreat

124
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Epicenter

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Capital, core, ground zero, Mecca

125
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Upcountry

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Living or residing remote from the coast , toward the interior of the country

126
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Fire and brimstone

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Jewish idiomatic OT describing sign’s of the wrath of God

127
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Capos

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Slang for mob bosses

128
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Rue

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Regret sorrow

129
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Bemuse

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Puzzle, confused

130
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Chavismo

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Venezuelan political party

131
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Abound

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Exist in large amounts of excess

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Afoot

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On foot

In preparation or progress; happening or beginning to happen

133
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Raze

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To destroy somethings completely

134
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Foundling

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An infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others

135
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Asceticism

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Severe self discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence , typically got religious reasons

136
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Hukou

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Household residency

137
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Ominous

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Suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future

138
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Rift

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A situation in which two people , groups etc no longer have friendly relationships

139
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Niqab

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A Muslim women veil covering hair , face not eyes

140
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Bereft

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Derived of or lacking something esp non material assists

141
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Marseillaise

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French national anthem

142
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Christmas Truce 1914

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German and British play soccer during a break (WW1)

143
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The Flying Dutchman

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Ghost ship that is doomed to fail the ocean forever

144
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Kitsch

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Loan word from German meaning cheesiness / tackiness is a low- brow of mass produced art of design using pop culture

145
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Scrubland

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Land that is covered with small bushes and trees

146
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Ignominy

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Public shame or disgrace

147
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Insolvency

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State of being insolvent ; inability to pay one’ s debts

148
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Cull

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Select from large quantity

Select , choose, pick, obtain, glean

149
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Metaphysics

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Branch of philosophy that includes abstract concepts Like substance , being, time, space, identity

150
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Piecemeal

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Bit by bit

Gradually, slowly

151
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Frisson

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S sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear, a thrill

A frisson of excitement

152
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Ballistics

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To throw

Science dealing with lancing, flight, etc

153
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Smoothbore

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Having no rifling within the barrel

Spiral grooves on the inside of a barrel

154
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Peregrine

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North American falcon

155
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Warfarin

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Medication to prevent heart attacks. Prevents blood clots from forming

156
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Trawling

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Method of fishing dragging a net via boat(s)

157
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Crampon

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Metal plate with spikes fixed to a boot for walking on ice or rock climbing

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