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The NYT & The Economist Flashcards

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Uptick

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A small increase

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Hoteliers

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Generally, hotel managers

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Yuan

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Renminbi

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Factory gate prices

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The actual cost of manufacturing goods before any mark-up is added to give profit c

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Aping

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Imitate the behavior or manner esp in an absurd or unthinking way

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Prospectus

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A printed document that advertises or describes a school, commercial enterprise, in order to attract or inform clients … Brochure, pamphlets, etc

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Befoul

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Make dirty; pollute

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Abode

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A place of residence; a house or home

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Exoplanet

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A planet that orbits a star other than the sun

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Obelisk

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A stone pillar squat or rectangle, pyramid top

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Dived v dove

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Dived is past tense of dive, not dove.

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Craggy

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Rough and uneven

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Whim

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Sudden desire to change mind

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Adept

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Very skilled or proficient at something

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Strife

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Conflict

Angry, bitter disagreement over fundamental issues

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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Octogenarian

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A person between 80-89 years old

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Centrist

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A person holding moderate political views

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Bereft

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Deprived of or lacking something esp. of no material assets

Her room was stark and bereft of color

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Disaster capitalism

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By Naomi Klein

Exploit crises to push policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted ….

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Cull

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Select from a large quantity.
Obtain from a variety of sources

Anecdotes culled from Greek and Ronan history.

Select, choose, glean, obtain

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Bezel

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A groves ring holding the glass or plastic cover of a watch face or other instruments in position

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Waft

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Pass or cause to pass easily through or as if through the air

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Jut

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Extend out , over, or behind the main body or line of something.

My hips jutted out awkwardly and were often bruised from bumping into things.

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Spinster

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Unmarried woman who is past the usual age for marrying is Considered unlikely to marry

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Taffeta

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Nice material made of silk or rayon

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Cadre

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A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession

Corps, team, nucleus, core

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Buoyant

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Able or apt to stay afloat or rise to the top of a gas or liquid

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Raze

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To destroy completely

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Inviolable

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Never be broken, infringed, or dishonored

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Wrought

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Beaten out of shaped by hammering

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Lest

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

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Patriarchal

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System of society controlled by men

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Asunder

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Apart

Divided

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Pabulum

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Bland or insipid intellectual fare, entertainment, etc

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Wilt

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To become limp or fluid

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Metronomic

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Mechanically regular (as in action or tempo)

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Rile/roiled

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Make someone annoyed- irritated

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Encephalitis

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Inflammation of the brain due to infection

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Bluster

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Talk in a loud , aggressive or indignant way with little effect

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Gaffe

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An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator , a blunder

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Splenetic

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Bad tempered, spiteful

Crabby, choleric , bilious, peevish, irritable

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Grandees

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A person of high rank or eminence

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Suborn

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Bribe or otherwise induce someone to commit an unlawful act such as perjury

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Spluttering

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Make series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds, say rapidly with spitting sound as a result of anger , embarrassment , or other strong emotion.

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Quibble

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A slight objection or criticism

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Aghast

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Filled with horror or shock

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Flinty

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Stubborn, unyielding

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Sleuthing

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Carry out a search or investigation in he manner of a detective

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Miscreants

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Persons acting badly that breaks the law

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Enliven

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Make moe enlightening interesting or appealing

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

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Galvanize

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To cause people to become excited about an issue

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Siege

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Military operation , blockade

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Queue

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A line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended

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Sharia

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Islamic law

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Halal food

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Permitted or lawful

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Lorry

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A large heavy motor vehicle for tram sporting goods of troops , truck

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Serene

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Calm and peaceful

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Roil

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Make a (liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment.

Rile- make someone annoyed or irritated

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Vindicate

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Clear of blame

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Fraught

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Causing or affected by great anxiety or stress

Worried, anxious

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Prevarication

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Lie

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Staunch

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Loyal and committed in attitude

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Rote

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Learning through memorization

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Hew

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Conform or adhere to

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Sunder

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Split apart

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Cicadas

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Summer bugs that make awful sound firing hot summer days

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Palanquin

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A covered litter

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Surreptitious

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Secretive

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Poignant

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

Sharp or pungent in taste or smell

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Raze

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Completely destroyed

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Septuagenarian

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Person in their 70s

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Usurped

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Take a position of power or importance illegally or by force

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Condemnation

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The expression of very strong disapproval ; censure

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Fait accompli

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A thing that had already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it , leaving them with no option but to accept

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Horcrux

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A powerful object in which a dark wizard or witch has hidden a fragment of his or her soul for the purpose of attaining immortality

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Sino

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Chinese and …

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Tribunal

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Any person or institution authority to judge

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Repatriate

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Send someone back to their own country

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Swathe

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Wrap in several layers of fabric

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Strew

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Scatter or spread untidily over a surface or area

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Stagecraft

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Technical aspect of theatrical , film, and video production. Includes construction and rigging scenery.

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Motley

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Incongruously varied

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Goad

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Provoke or annoy someone so as to stimulate some action or reaction

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Sclerotic

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Of or having sclerosis

Becoming rigid and unresponsive , losing the about to adapt

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Rift

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Opening made by splitting , fissure , a space

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Foil

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Prevent from succeeding

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Dogged

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Having or showing tenacity of grim persistence

Tenacious, determined,persistent

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Skewering

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Fasten together or pierce with a pin or skewer

Criticize someone sharply

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Raclette

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Cheese fashioned into a circle

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Fondue

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A dish of hot liquid in which small pieces of food are cooked or dipped

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Dismay

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Cause someone to feel consternation and distress

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Vilify

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Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner

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Courtiers

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A person who attends a royal court as a companion or advisor to the king or queen
Attendant, lord, lady in waiting, steward, page, squire

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Dauphin

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The eldest son of a king of France

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Chagrin

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Embarrassed

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Blight

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Something that causes harm or damage like a disease

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SWOT

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Strength, weakness, opportunity, threats is an analytical framework that can help your company fave its greatest challenges

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Harried

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Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one

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Pettifogging

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Placing undue emphasis on petty details

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Abound

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Existing on large numbers of amounts

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Feign

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Pretend

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Deferential

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Showing deference, respectful

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Betoken

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Be a sign of, indicate , an indicator

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Dossier

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A collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject

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Flummoxed

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Bewildered or perplexed

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Unduly

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In an inappropriate , unjustifiable, or improper manner

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Stem the tide

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Stop the trend

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Jostle

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Push, elbow, or bump against roughly, typically in crowd

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Chaebol

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A family controlled industrial conglomerate in South Korea

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Vying

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Present participle of vie

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Beset

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Of a problem or difficulty Trouble or threatening persistently

Harry, rack, plague , torment

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Hitherto

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Until now or until the point in time under discussion

Previously, formerly, earlier, before, beforehand.

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Holding company

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A company that owns other companies’ outstanding stock. This company usually does not produce goods; rather it owns shares of other companies to form a corporate group

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Drum up

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To bring about by persistent effort

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Curlicue

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A line (curved) decorated

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Necropolis

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Large ancient cemetery

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Fretwork

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Ornamental design in wood

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Stupor

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A state of near unconsciousness or insensibility

Daze, torpor, oblivion, insensibility,

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Thwart

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Prevent from accomplishing something

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Poised

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Having a composed and self assured manner

Having a graceful and elegant bearing

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Welter

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To be in turmoil

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Slog

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Work hard over a period of time

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Regress

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Return to a former or less developed state

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Impute

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Represent ( something, esp. something undesirable) as being done, caused or possessed by someone, attribute

The crimes imputed to Richard.

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Inelegant

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Having or showing a lack of physical grace, elegance, or refinement

He came skidding to an inelegant halt.

Unrefined, uncouth, unsophisticated, uncultivated,

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Courtly

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Cultured, refined, and well mannered

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Toil

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Work extremely hard or incessantly
We toiled away
The life of toil

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Dismay

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Cause (someone) to feel consternation and distress

Appeal, horrify, shock

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Burden of proof

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The obligation to prove one’s assertion

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Conveyance

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The action or process of transporting someone of something from one place to another

Transport, transfer, carriage

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Elixir

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A magical or medicinal potion

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Trope

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A figurative of me spherical use of a word or expression

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REM. rapid eye movement

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Eyes move quickly and dream vividly

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Gouache

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Type of paint, watermedia

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Compel

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Force or oblige someone to do something

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Amicable

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Characterized by or showing friendly, peaceful, goodwill, etc.

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Rampart

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A protective barrier; bulwark

Broad embankment raised as a fortification

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

Meager, dubious, , weak, questionable, suspect

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Hasten

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To be quick with something

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Dawdle

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Waste time; be slow

I couldn’t dawdle over my coffee any longer

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Crow

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Of a cock- utter its characteristics loud cry

Of a person - make a sound expressing a feeling of happiness of triumph

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Parlance

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A particular way of speaking of using words , esp a way common to those with a particular job or interest

Dated terms that were once in common parlance

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Bollix

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To make mistakes in doing something

To upset or ruin something

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Proverbial

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Of a word or phrase referred to in a proverb or idiom

Well known , esp so as to be stereotyped

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Veil

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Verb
Cover with or as though with a veil
Partially conceal, disguise, or obscure

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Pompadour

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A hair style like that idiot Trump

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Centenary

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Centennial

100th anniversary

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Ceding

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To surrender possession of , esp by treaty
To yield
To grant

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Pretense

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An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true

Dissimulation, acting, make- believe

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Iteration

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The repetition of a process or utterance

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Consigliere

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An advisor esp up a crime boss

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Oncology

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The study and treatment of tumor

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Germ line

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Egg and sperm cells

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Tenuos

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Very weak or slight

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A la carte

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With a separate price for each item on the menu

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Bespoke

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Past of bespeak

Of goods, esp clothing made to order

Commissioned to a particular specification

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Esprit de corps

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A feeling of pride, fellowship, and commonly loyalty shared by the members of a particular group

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Torpor

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State of physical or mental inactivity ; lethargy

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Trounce

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Defeat heavily in a contest

Rebuke of punish severely

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Dividends

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Money paid to shareholders

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Cowed

Verb past tense

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Cause someone to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation

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Flagging

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Becoming increasingly less

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Viceroy

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A ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign

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Tout

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To talk about something or someone as being very good, effective, skillful, etc

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Ornery

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Bad tempered and combative

Stubborn.

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Aquiver

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Quivering ; trembling

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Consign

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To give, transfer, or deliver into the hands or control of another

To commit esp to a final destination or fate

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Dog-eared

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To make worn or shabby from overuse

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Upheaval

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A violent or sudden change or disruption to something

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Rout

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A disorderly retreat of defeated troops

Defeat

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Insofar

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To the extent that

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Navel gazing

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Self indulgent or excessive contemplation of oneself

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Remand

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Send down (case) to lower courts

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Barrel vaulted

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Semi circular in shape

Barrel vaulted ceilings

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Erstwhile

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Former, old, one-time, ex-, then , etc.

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Reprieve

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Cancel the punishment, pardon, spare, amnesty.

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Sisyphean

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That which can never be completed

Are labours to repay foreign debts Sisyphean?

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Foster

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Encourage of promote the development

Encourage , promote, further, cultivate

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand of interpret

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Hand wringing

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The clasping together and squeezing of one’s hands , esp when distresses or worried

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Breadth

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The distance or measurement from side to side of something , width

Broadness, thickness, range , extent, scale

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Exuberant

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Filled with or characterized by s lively energy and excitement

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Slight

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Insult by treating of speaking of them without proper respect or attention

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Wariness

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Caution about possible dangers of problems

Lack of trust , suspicion

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Enviable

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Arousing or likely to arouse envy

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Embroil

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Involve deeply in an argument , conflict, of difficult situation

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Cordon

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A line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards

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Trounce

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Defeat heavily in a contest

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NEET

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A young person not in Education , Employment, or Training

A term First used in the UK but now spreading

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Innumerate

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Quoit UCI g basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic

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Backlog

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An accumulation of someone esp incomplete work or matters that need to be dealt with

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Recrimination

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An accusation in response to one from someone else

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Vitriol

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Harsh and angry words

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Defenestration

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The action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority

Humorous version - throwing someone out the window

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Proffer

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Hold out something to someone for acceptance

Offer, tender, submit, extend, volunteer, suggest, propose,

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Harem

A

In former times, the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants

199
Q

Sultan

A

A Muslim sovereign

200
Q

Veer

A

Change direction suddenly

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