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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ubiquitous | present everywhere, seen all over |
| Potable | drinkable |
| Petulant | impatient, easily irritated |
| Sporadic | infrequent, occuring occasionally |
| Surrogate | someone or something which acts on behalf of another |
| Tenacity | holds together, has persistence |
| Subsidy | a gift of money made by the government to a privately owned business |
| Allocate | to distribute pain, to assign |
| Malleable | something which can be shaped, molded, or changed |
| Capitulate | to give in or give up |
| Alacrity | eagerness, willingness, readiness |
| Exposition | a detailed explanation |
| Disenfranchise | to take away rights or suffrage |
| Equivocal | open to interpretation, having more than one meaning |
| Hackneyed | tired, stale, overused |
| Apocryphal | of doubtful origin |
| Mercenary | a person paid as a soldier in a foreign army |
| Arbitrary | subject to indiviual preference or whim |
| Implausible | highly unlikely |
| Subtle | not obvious, hard to spot |
| Admonish | to warn or caution |
| Conservation | the act or practive of preventing wars |
| encroach | to trespass |
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