Fast Food Nation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hegemony | the domination of one state over its allies |
| Embroiled | deeply involved especially in something complicated |
| Emeritus | honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus' |
| Acceded | agreed |
| Pragmatic | concerned with practical matters |
| Purports | v. to claim, seem or profess to be something specified |
| Proliferated | to grow by rapid production of new parts; increase in number |
| Synergy | the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects |
| Subsidiary | a company that is completely controlled by another company |
| Transposed | turned about in order or relation |
| Macabre | shockingly repellent |
| Platitudes | a trite or banal remark esp one that is expressed as significant |
| Emulated | to copy or imitate |
| Tantamount | equivalent |
| Relinquished | given up often unwillingly |
| Tenet | a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof |
| Ubiquitous | being present everywhere at once |
| Desiccate | remove water from |
| Purported | Claimed as true, but probably false |
| Amicus | friend (male) |
| Homogenize | cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing |
| Aggregation | the act of gathering something together |
| Ostensible | represented or appearing as such |
| Innocuous | unlikely to harm or disturb anyone |
| Litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation |
| Tawdry | cheap and shoddy |
| Eviscerated | to remove the entrails from, to deprive of a central part |
| Magnates | a very wealthy or powerful businessman |
| Impugned | challenged to be doubted |
| Litigious | inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits |
| Fiefdoms | an organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group |
| Visceral | obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation |
| Precarious | affording no ease or reassurance |
| Agitprop | political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema |
| Inadmissible | not deserving to be admitted |
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