| Term | Definition |
|---|
| autonomy | self-government, political control; home rule |
| surreptitious | stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud; furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed |
| punctilious | very careful and EXACT, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety; precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, finicky |
| perfidy | faithlessness, treachery; betrayal, disloyalty, TREASON, duplicity |
| abate | to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit; diminish, decrease, subside, let up |
| avarice | a greedy desire, particularly for wealth; cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness |
| corroborate | to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify; refute, contradict, undermine, discredit |
| prosaic | dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose, not poetic; commonplace, humdrum, literal, pedestrian |
| dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion; unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached |
| transient | last only a short time, fleeting; impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent; one who stays only a short time |
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