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| n. the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa |
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| n. a brief, often witty saying; a proverb |
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| n. a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
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| adj. shrewd; keen in judgement |
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| n. gradual wearing away, weakening or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
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| v. to make bigger; to add to; to increase |
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| adj. favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
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| adj. unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
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| v. to claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
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| n. poison; torment; cause of harm |
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| n. stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
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| v. to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
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| v. to surround; to besiege; to harass |
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| v. to give a false impression of; to contradict |
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| v. to make to seem little; to put someone down |
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| n. irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
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| n. a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
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| n. a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules |
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| v. to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
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| n. free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) |
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| v. to criticize severely; to chastise |
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| n. in chemistry, something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
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| v. to inflict punishment on; to dicipline |
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| n. trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political |
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| n. an illusion; a foolish fancy |
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| v. to stoop to someone else's level, usually in an offensive way; to patronize |
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| v. to move to a new country; to move to a new place to live; to expatriate |
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| v. to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example |
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| adj. having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism |
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| v. to throw (someone) out of his or her native land; to move away from one's native land; to emigrate |
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| adj. providing an immediate advantage serving, serving one's immediate self-interest; practical |
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| n. someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
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| adj. glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous |
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