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4.8 KiB
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125 lines
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4.8 KiB
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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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* *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 | | |
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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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