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333 lines
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* *We become more defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.*
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| affirm | deliberate | empirical | flatter
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| genuine | intuition | portray | profound
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| superiority | inferiority | despise | disdain
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| scorn | contemn | humiliate | insult
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| lash | offend | reproach | underrate |
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* *Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.*
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| brisk | divine | formidable | retrospect
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| sober | solemn | unpretentious | vibrant |
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* *Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed. Mail-box keeps the spammer out of our inboxes.*
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| clumsy | incorporate | intricate | liable
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| notwithstanding | prosperous | reciprocal | resort
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| reveal | utilize | venture | whip |
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* *At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.*
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| unleash | adverse | averse | aggravate
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| casualty | disperse | scatter | dissipate
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| emission | emit | enclosure | evacuate
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| precaution | quench | pile | elevated |
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* *As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.*
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| cloak | commodity | deputy | disgrace
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| pursue | recruit | turbulent | conform
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| consent | weld |||
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* *Everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.*
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| deficit | discard | fluctuate | impair
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| impetus | momentum | strive | endeavor
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| headstrong | unbending | submissive | surge
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| surpass | textile | undermine | intensify |
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* *It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.*
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| articulate | grasp | abrupt | aerial
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| antenna | consecutive | continuity | intensity
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| marvelous | metaphysical | overhear | plague
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| sensual | sonata | implicit | prevail |
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* *Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.*
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| distinct | shaky | entitlement | ethic
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| lapse | sprout | stem | vermin |
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* *A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama English society.*
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| morality | satirize | intricate | panorama
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| backdrop | bleak | installment | plunge
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| reputation | conceal | imprison | reform
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| steward | wound | extrication ||
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* *Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.*
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| retain | enviable | rural | coherence
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| alongside | dweller | endorse | meadow
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| pasture | mead | lucrative | renewal
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| renovation | sensible | sentiment | spectrum
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| bait | barn | ditch | famine
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| fell | fertile | flock | irrigate
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| orchard | ore | peasant | plough
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| reservoir | ripe | trench | entrenched |
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* *Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.*
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| profit | disposable | lucrative | turnover
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| virtue | courtesy | diligence | painstaking
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| forgiveness | norm | criteria | intricate
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| ethics | bribe | bully | intimidate
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| bluster | vicious | debase | deceit
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| fraud | trickery | imposter | gamble
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| notorious | disreputable | strain | superficial
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| vice | versa | concede | confess |
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* *We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.*
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| hail | extol | emigrant | promotion
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| proclaim | refugee | rigid ||
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* *The issue of voluntary past-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.*
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| decent | divert | erect | meditate
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| subordinate | transcend | exceed | underlie
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| vacant | reap | retake ||
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* *Firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug's efficacy.*
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| correlation | agitate | discrepancy | futile
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| genetics | innovation | monopoly | preliminary
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| renovate | symmetry | synthesis | photosynthesis |
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* *Dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.*
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| paralysis | reluctant | bruising | concession
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| illiquid | vastly | appall | coward
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| dismay | dread | startle | timid |
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* *He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully".*
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| humbly | concisely | hazy | submissiveness
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| inferior | badge | pendulum | rim
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| fringe | rpd | scrap | shaft |
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* *Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.*
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| canon | bulletin | embark | enroll
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| faculty | holistic |||
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* *Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.*
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| sparing | anxious | extravagant | incentive
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| lottery | obsession | scarce | wage
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| coupon | hospitality | diminish | curtail
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| miniature | trifle |||
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* *These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.*
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| benefactor | distort | inevitable | unintentional
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| prestige | recipient | scatter | indict
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| dictator | captivate | beguile | intrigue
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| lure | entice | allure ||
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* *Perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.*
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| faint | intangible | wasp | physique
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| persuasion | ethical | impinge | scent
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| odor | slender | stylish | uplifting
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| amiable | arrogant | cocky | humble
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| blunt | bluff | eccentric | egp
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| hypocrisy | hypocritical | hysterical | imperial
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| queer | eccentric | slippery | sly
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| sympathetic | sympathize | tame | temperament
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| vanity | vicious | savage | weird |
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* *The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.*
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| elaborate | stencil | marquetry | escort
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| squire | invasion | maneuver | militant
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| raid | siege | besiege | cunning
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| delicate | exquisite | aisle | bolt
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| compartment | overleap | tilt | incline
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| lean | tuck | waterproof | wedge |
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* *The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.*
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| ornate | ceremonial | antique | clue
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| engrave | epoch | excavation | pinpoint
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| primitive | savage | barbaric | barbarous
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| settlement | systematic | terrain | enormous
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| grave | immense | ingenious | lofty |
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* *It may be said that the measure of worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience, but this effect is not a part of its original motive.*
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| aboriginal | appetite | crush | deviate
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| directive | disposition | disrupt | drawback
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| enslavement | entity | essence | gratify
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| hatred | headway | incidental | industriousness
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| instill | overrule | overthrow | perpetuity
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| resent | thrift | tuition | uproar |
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* *Our mental health doesn't really go anywhere, like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable being restored in an instant.*
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| inflict | afflict | conscience | immune
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| innate | instinct | mend | shatter
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| sigh | exterior | interior | intermediate
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| inverse | lateral | mutual | oriental
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| rear | bump | creep | linger
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| procession | scramble | disorder | stagger
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| astound | stroll | wander | |
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* *No boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.*
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| ignorant | decay | dignity | disguise
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| farcical | inhabitant | interval | monologue
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| prosper | repertoire | sarcastic | hollow
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| medieval | metaphor | orthodox | renaissance
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| renewal | satire | decline | verse |
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* *The most loyal customers would still get the product they flavor, the idea, and they'd feel like they helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.*
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| enterprising | blunder | cease | sustain
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| commonplace | counterpart | nostalgia | tremendous
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| enormous | auxiliary | avail | endow
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| bequeath | facilitate | salvation | deliverance |
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* *But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.*
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| anticipation | apt | prophesy | foretell
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| imminent | calamitous | distress | appoint
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| ballot | bureau | bureaucracy | eloquent
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| ethnic | municipal | nominate | forerunner
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| sanction | senate | veto ||
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* *Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots" concepts as community sport associations.*
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| alumnus alumni | bruise | cruise | commemorate
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| gymnasium | intimate | obesity | parachute
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| pedal | pledge | saddle | spectator
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| bystander | thrive | trial ||
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* *While few craftsmen or farmer, let alone dependents and servants, let literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.*
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| craftsman | intellectualized | attach | civility
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| clergyman | decisive | earnestness | emigrate
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| frustration | puritan | sermon | theological
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| virtuosity | accountant | butcher | carpenter
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| clergy | cop | cripple | missionary
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| mistress | mob | throng | swarm
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* *While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.*
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| amongst | desirable | forge | parcel
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| profoundly | undue | bail | culprit
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| detain | petition | testimony | cardinal |
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* *Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.*
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| intimacy | projection | exaggerate | factual
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| imperative | prevalent | scandal | defer
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| eternal | cursory | fleet | expeditious
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| initiate | instantaneous | postpone | coinstantaneous
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| coincident | contemporary | transient ||
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* *According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and likeability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.*
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| access | compliment | formal | radiant
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| trivial | analog | seduce ||
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* *Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the invention of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to diffusionists, they spread to other cultures.*
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| virtual | anatomy | anthropology | coincide
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| metallurgy | ritual | imply | solidarity
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| concord | incur | induce | deduce |
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* *The upside is the possibilities constrained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were expect in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.*
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| erroneous | evoke | invoke | provoke
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| revoke | exploitation | delusion | elusion
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| inferiority | ponder | contemplate | likelihood
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| oath | meditate | rationalization | sobering
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* *If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.*
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| cascade | propagate | anecdotal | compel
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| cursory | derive | intuitively | minority
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| plausible | presence | dense | excess
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| redundant | superfluous | excessive | scanty
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| redundancy | saturate | drench | soak
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| saturated | saturation | suffice | surplus
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| collide | counteract | counterbalance | defy
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| protest | rebel | rebellion | disobedience
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| rebellious | refute | confute ||
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