Example: voting power will be apportioned according to contribution
heretofore
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adverb:before now
Example: diseases that heretofore were usually confined to rural areas
dementia
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noun:brain disease marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning
Example:You don't need it!
hysteria
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POS:excess emotion
Example:You don't need it!
catastrophe
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noun:an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering
Example: an environmental catastrophe
stigmatize
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verb:condemn
Example: the institution was stigmatized as a last resort for the destitute(poor)
deify
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verb:regard as god
Example: she was deified by the early Romans as a fertility goddess
antedate
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verb:come before (something) in date
Example: a civilization that antedated the Roman Empire
abridged
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adjective: having been shortened
Example: an abridged text of the speech
expatriate
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noun, verb, adjective:a person who lives outside their native country, send abroad, foreign
Example: American expatriates in London
lascivious
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adjective:feeling or revealing an overt(show openly) sexual interest or desire.
Example: he gave her a lascivious wink
sophisticated
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adjective:1. having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture
2. (of machines) complex
Example: a chic, sophisticated woman
excise
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noun, verb:tax, remove a section of (text/music)
Example: the clauses were excised from the treaty
quaint
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adjective:attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Example: his yearning for quaint charms of his rural home
steward
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verb:look after, manage
Example: the main challenge was to steward the resources
husband
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verb:use resources economically
Example: the main challenge was to husband the resources
peddle
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verb:sell/promote
Example: he peddled printing materials around the country
upend
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verb:turn (something) on its end
Example: she upended a can of soup over the portions
galleys
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noun:ship/aircraft, drafts about to be published
Example: he could barely see the text to proof his own galleys
capricious
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adjective:given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour, fickle
Example: it's terrible to feel our livelihood hinges on a capricious boss
fickle
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adjective:changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections
Example: celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public
volatile
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adjective:liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse
Example: staff has seen her in a volatile state
fallacious
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adjective:based on a mistaken belief
Example:fallacious arguments
counterfactual
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adjective:relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.
Example:You don't need it!
vacillating
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adjective:wavering between different opinions or actions, going back and forth, uncertain
Example: he was accused of vacillating leadership
irresolute
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adjective:uncertain
Example: she stood irresolute outside his door
dire
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adjective:extremely serious or urgent
Example: unemployment numbers are more dire than before
unpropitious
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adjective:unfavourable, no good chance of successs
Example: recession may seem an unpropitious time for such risky endeavor
dearth
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noun:shortage, scarcity
Example: an ineviitable dearth of angel investors
uptick
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noun:small increase
Example: an uptick in reports of bacterial strains
virulence
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noun:the severity or harmfulness of a disease or poison
Example: the proportion of birds which die depends on the virulence of the virus
bestow
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verb:present
Example: the office was bestowed on him by the monarch of this realm
bevy
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noun:a large group of people or things of a particular kind.
Example: a bevy of big-name cameos will keep the adults entertained
impregnable
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adjective:unable to be defeated or overcome
Example: rendering the bacterium impregnable
marshal
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verb:assemble and arrange
Example: virions must marshal the host cell's parts
ex post facto
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latin:after it is done
Example: viral infections cannot be treated ex post facto
insidious
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adjective:proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects
Example: while the insidious spread of drug-resistant bacteria...
remission
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noun:a temporary diminution of the severity of disease or pain
Example: for viruses, remission rather than cure is the goal
cataclysm
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noun:a large-scale and violent event in the natural world
Example: bacteria lack the potential for cataclysm
happenstance
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noun:coincidence
Example: it is only fortunate happenstance that HIV does not spread by air
posit
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verb:put forward as fact or basis of argument
Example: an argument posited that the possibility of conducting transactions
prescient
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adjective:ability to foretell the future
Example: a prescient warning
preternatural
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adjective:beyond what is normal or natural (in mysterious ways)
Example: autumn had arrived with preternatural speed
preordain
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verb:decide or determine (an outcome or course of action) beforehand
Example: you might think the company's success was preordained
preposterous
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adjective:contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous
Example: a preposterous suggestion
pithy
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adjective:concise
Example: his characteristically pithy comments
terse
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adjective:sparing in the use of words; abrupt.
Example: a terse statement
primal
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adjective:early stage in evelutionary development
Example: stems from an arguably primal human need to venerate both men and gods
lionize
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verb:to treat as an object of great interest or importance
Example: the widespread tendency to lionize retired leaders
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verb:1. compensate (someone) for harm or loss. (get out of jail free card) <br>
2. insure/guarantee/secure
Example: 1. each of the parties shall indemnify me for all reasonable costs of defending such actions and proceedings
2. the company has taken out insurance to indemnify its directors against liability
anecdotal
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adjective:not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research
Example: while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact
actuarial
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adjective:relating to actuaries(statisticians) or their work of compiling and analysing statistics to calculate insurance risks and premiums.
Example: an actuarial consulting firm
quotidian
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adjective:daily, unextraordinary
Example: the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic
fledgling
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adjective:inexperienced
Example: troupe of fledgling dancers could observe the real masters
torpid
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adjective:sluggish/lethargic
Example: we sat around in a torpid state
lithe
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adjective:supple and graceful
Example: she lay gazing up at his tall, lithe figure
supple
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adjective:flexible
Example: her supple fingers
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verb:support, justify, or form the basis for
Example: worldview underpinned by central and all-important Earth
worldview
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noun:a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.
Example:worldview underpinned by central and all-important Earth
juxtapose
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verb:place or deal with close together for contrasting effect
Example:juxtapose two opposing views
indictment
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noun:1. formal charge or accusation of a serious crime <br>
2. a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad
Example: an indictment of the Antiguan government
escapade
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noun:an act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure
Example: fluctuates from moral crisis to hilarious escapde
acclaim
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noun:praise enthusiastically and publicly
Example: performed to much acclaim throughout Europe
corroborate
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verb:to prove true or support with evidence
Example:corroborate the view that Earth is not central
rejoinder
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noun:a reply, especially a sharp or witty one
Example: Kincaid makes a witty rejoinder
unremitting
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adjective:never relaxing/slackening, incessant
Example:unremitting overcast skies
incessant
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adjective:continuously flowing
Example: the incessant beat of the music
lugubrious
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adjective:looking or sounding sad and dismal
Example:lugubrious music
appropriate
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verb:take forcefully
Example: Govt appropriated land
grotesque
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adjective:comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.