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Affidavit: (n) a written statement made under oath before an authorized official
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Asymmetrical: (adj) not the same on the either side; lacking balanced proportions
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Aversion: (n) a strong dislike; the object that causes the strong dislike
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Avert: (v) to keep from happening; prevent; ward off; to turn away or aside, such as a glance
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Cabal: (n) a small group of people secretly plotting or scheming
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Cause celebre: (n) issue that causes controversy and arouses heated debate
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Chutzpah: (n) impudence; nerve; gall
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Credence: (n) acceptance as true or real; trustworthiness
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Credibility: (n) the quality or power to inspire belief; a capacity for belief
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Credulous: (adj) tending to believe or trust too readily; gullible
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Didactic: (adj) intended for instruction; morally instructive
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Diffident: (adj) lacking self-confidence; shy; timid
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Edify: (v) to instruct, especially morally, spiritually, or intellectually
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Fealty: (n) loyalty; faithfulness; allegiance; the loyalty of a vassal or feudal tenant to his lord
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Fiduciary: (adj) relating to the management of one's person's assets by another
(n) one with such responsibility
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Hoc: (adv) for a specific purpose and no other
(adj) concerned with one specific purpose
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Imbroglio: (n) a confusing or complicated situation
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Inadvertent: (adj) unintentional; accidental; not attentive; heedless
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Incise: (v) to engrave; carve
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Incontrovertible: (adj) impossible to dispute or debate; unquestionable; certain
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Infinitum: (adj) endlessly; without limit; forever
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Intuitive: (adj) known or perceived without conscious reasoning
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Juggernaut: (n) an overpowering force that destroys anything in its path; anything to which people blindly devote themselves
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Malversation: (n) misconduct in public office or other position of trust
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Miscreant: (n) a wicked person; villain; heretic; one who dissents from church dogma
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Nabob: (n) a rich, powerful, and influential person
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Obverse: (n) the side of a coin or medal that bears the main design; the main side of something
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Perfidious: (adj) treacherous; disloyal; faithless
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Persona non grata: (adj) being unacceptable or unwelcome
(n) a person who is not acceptable or not welcome
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Quid pro quo: (n) something exchanged for something else
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Recreant: (adj) cowardly; disloyal or unfaithful
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Shibboleth: (n) a slogan, catchword, or phrase that is identified with a certain group
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Solace: (n) comfort in sorrow, grief, loneliness, etc.
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Spare: (adj) not excessive or lavish; extra; lean; thin
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Striate: (v) to mark with narrow grooves or streaks which are usually parallel
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Supple: (adj) easily bent; pliant; flexible
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Vertex: (n) the highest point; top; apex
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Vertiginous: (adj) revolving; rotation; whirling; dizzy
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Vertigo: (n) the sensation of dizziness
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Vortex: (n) a whirling mass, especially water or air, that sucks nearby things into its center; whirlpool