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Final Exam 1
100 Vocabulary Words
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English
12th Grade
01/22/2008
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Perspicacious
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Having sharp sense
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August
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Praiseworthy
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Illustrious
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Quite famous
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Ethereal
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Ghostly, unreal, out of this world!
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Sumptuous
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Luxurious
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Garish
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Tacky and loud
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Tawdry
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In bad taste
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ostentatious
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Flashy, showy
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Noisome
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So smelly it makes you ill
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Portend
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To foreshadow
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Skulk
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To move discreetly
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Diffident
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Shy
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Discourse
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Written or oral discussion/to discuss
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Venerate/Venerable
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To honor/honorable
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Irreverant/Irreverance
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Disrespectful/Disrespect
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Buttress
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A supporting agent
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Imperial
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Arrogant, demanding
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Authoritarian
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Having absolute power
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Doctrinaire
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A know it all attitude
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Parsimonious
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EXTREMELY cheap like your slut mom
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Denigrate
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To yell at someone or attack them verbally
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Deride
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To yell at someone or attack them verbally
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Denounce
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To publically/openly reject or condemn
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Rebuke
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To criticize sharply
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Nebulous
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Blurry or unclear
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Didactic
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Excessively preachy or instructive
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Dubious
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Doubtful
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Altercate/Altercation
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To argue angrily/An argument
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Traverse
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To go across
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Disparage
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To lower the rank of something
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Lurid
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Shocking so that it draws attention to itself
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Sully
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To pollute; to dirty
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Deprecate
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To show disapproval
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Dogma
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A set of beliefs relating to morality or faith
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Dogmatic
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Stubbornly insistent on what one believes is right
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Imperative (noun)
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An official decree
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Imperative (adjective)
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Necessary; essential
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Emphatic
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Conveyed with great importance or passion
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Iconoclast
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Someone who fights against tradition
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Capitulate
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To give in
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Annul
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To make something void or invalid; to cancel
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Promulgate
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To publicly announce a decree or opinion
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Confound (verb)
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To mix up or confuse
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Confound (adjective)
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Confusing/Confounding
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Tenable
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Able to be understood or acieved
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Facile
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Easy to do or to be understood
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Incessant
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Occurring without interupption, going on and on
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Transitory
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Only lasting a short time
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Diatribe
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An abusive verbal attack
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Harangue (noun)
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A critical angry speech
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Harangue (verb)
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To speak to someone angrily
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Propitiate
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To make amends; to appease (maybe by apologizing)

I propitiated by saying sorry
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Deleterious
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Harmful
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Clandestine (adjective)
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Done in secret
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Shrewd
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Having sharp senses; clever
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Credulous
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Ready to believe especially with uncertain evidence
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Acerbic
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Harsh
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Impugn
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oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity
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Quibble
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To argue over petty things
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Felicity
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the quality or state of being happy
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Wan
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Pale; lacking vitality
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Banal
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lacking originality, freshness
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Prosaic
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dull and lacking excitement; not fanciful or imaginative
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Hackneyed
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lacking in freshness or originality
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Bolster (verb)
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To support
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Bolster (noun)
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A support
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Debunk
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To prove false
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Alacrity
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Eagerness
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Esteem (noun)
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worth, high regard
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Esteem (verb)
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To praise
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Desecrate
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To violate something sacred; to treat disrespectfully, irreverently, or outrageously
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impertinent
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Extremely rude
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Abate
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to reduce
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Obsequious (adjective)
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"OB-SEE-KWEE-KISS"

Kiss ass
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Analgesia
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Something that numbs pain (especially a drug)
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Corroborate
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To support with evidence
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Dogged
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Stubbornly determined
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Defunct
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No longer in operation
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Tenacity
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Determination
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Assuage
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To comfort; to ease
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Insular
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Isolated
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Proliferate
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To spread
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Acclaim
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Praise
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Effectual
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Effective
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Penury
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extreme poverty
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Espouse
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to promote or endorse
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obdurate
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stubbornly persistent in wrong doing

"he was an obdurate man"...
"even the child's misery would move the most obdurate heart"
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Incorrigible
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Not reformable; unable to be changed
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Contrite
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feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
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renounce
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to make a renunciation; to give something up, usually, to give up power of some sort
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plethora
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a wide variety
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assent
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to agree
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ephemeral
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fleeting, short lived, temporary
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consummate
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final, to finalize
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reproach
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to show disapproval
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exculpate
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to remove from blame
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dour
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gloomy or stern
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laud
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praise
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incendiary
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likely to start a fire
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desiccated
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dried out
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torrid
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hot and PASSIONATE
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beguile
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to trick
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sodden
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SOAKING wet
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veracity
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truthfulness
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piety
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devotion to GOD?
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blasphemy
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disrespect toward something sacred
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