Peril

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Staunch

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Verb -
Stop or restrict (the flow of blood) from a wound

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Bleak

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(Of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging ; unlikely to have a favourable outcome.

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Hawk

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Verb-
Carry about and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting

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Hack

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Noun -

A journalist or writer dull or unoriginal work

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Profiteer

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Verb-

Make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in black market

Noun

A person who profiteers

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Instructive

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Adjective -

Useful and Informative

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Warmonger

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Noun

• A person who advocates or encourages aggression towards other countries or groups

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Harbinger

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

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Comatose

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Adjective -

Relating to or in a state of coma

Extremely lethargic or sleepy

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Sly .

On the sly

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Adjective -

Having or showing a deceitful nature

Phrase -

In a secretive fashion

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Stripped of names

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removing or omitting names from something—such as a document, story, or list—so that identities are not revealed. It can also refer to a situation where names are no longer important or relevant.

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Prognosis

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Noun - a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation

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Wanton

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Of a cruel or violent action, deliberate and unprovoked

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Singly

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One at a time, separately or individually

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Dumbfoundedness

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The state of being astonished or amazed

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Ply

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Work steadily with a tool

Work steadily at one’s business or trade

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Counting houses

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An office or building in which the accounts and money of a person or a company were kept

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Besieged

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Crowded around oppressively, surrounded and harassed.

Inundated with a large number of requests or complaints

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Deliberate

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(often of something bad) intentional or planned

done carefully without hurrying

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Peril

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great danger, or something that is very dangerous

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Insidious

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Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way but with very harmful effects

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Overt

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Done or shown openly, plainly apparent

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Unsettling

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Causing anxiety or uneasiness, disturbing

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Despot

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a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way