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- Spin Control
- Control the media repot (Radio, TV, and etc.)
- Conglomerate
- multinational;corporation that includes many smaller companies
- assiduously
- diligent; hard-working; meticulous; industrious;attentive
- disparage
- to belittle; to say umcomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way
- clemency
- mercy, forgiveness, mildness
- conjure
- remind; call forth; summon; invoke; evoke; bring to mind
- Lobby
- To pressure, to push for sth
- Nuremberg
- city NW of Munich, site of Nazi crime trials
- social compact
- agreement for mutual benefit by individual and community
- Consulate
- Nations represented
- deleterious
- harmful; toxi; lethal; injurious; poisonous; deadly
- Fetish
- kinky obsession
- eugenics
- hereditary "improvement" of humans by selective breeding
- Maudlin
- silly and overly sentimental
- overture
- offer; proposal; gesture; advance; approach; prelude
- resonant
- booming; echoing; reverberating; deep; significant
- Bureaucrat
- official,pen-pusher,civil servant; one who works in a large organization
- Vested
- (in law) settled,fixed,or absolute;being without
- muckraking
- investigative reporting, exposing misconduct in public life
- perpetrate
- criminal, be guilty; commit (a crime)
- allegorical
- characteristics of a writing that employ abstract ideas thruogh spiritual meaning
- euthanasia
- mercy killing, of those suffering from a terminal illness
- mercantile
- of merchants, trade, commerce
- Bacchanal
- a drunken or riotous celebration
- colloquial
- conversational, informal in use of language
- concoct
- mix together
- Avatar
- Representative character
- defiance
- bold resistance to authority
- unpalatable
- unpleasant; inedible; unappealing; nasty; revolting
- unequivocal
- clear; certain; explicit; unambiguous
- winnow
- to narrow (down); sihft (the good from the bad); eliminate; extract
- proliferate
- to spread or grow rapidly
- saccharine
- overly sweet and artificial
- dregs
- sediment of liquids, grounds, basest, least desirable
- Specter
- ghost ,apparition,phantom
- temperament
- mood; disposition; spirit; outlook; nature ; personality
- anti-Semitism
- discrimination against Jews
- Transcend
- rise above(figuratively);exceed;surpass;go beyond
- disseminate
- to spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known
- polemic
- controversial argument; dispute; aggressive attack
- taciturn
- untalkative by nature
- Appropriate
- take over to seize, set aside
- profligate
- wasteful; extravagant; spendthrift; squandering
- Fiduciary
- of/related to holding something in trust for another
- Burgeon
- multiply;flourish;expand and spread out
- prepossess
- preocupy, to influence or to prejudice beforehand
- Placate
- mollify;calm;soothe;pacify;calm down;appease;conciliate
- Nietzche
- German philosopher
- redneck
- uneducated white farmer from the south
- Fief
- Fuedal system, somethin you have control over
- Run-amock
- Psycho, intention to kill
- parable
- a short moral story
- ruminate
- mull over; think about; ponder; muse
- Summarily
- instantly, immediately
- indict
- to call into court; accuse; charge; prosecute
- Replete
- full;complete; sated;filled
- diffident
- timid, lacking in self-confidence
- Melodrama
- Overly dramatic
- awash
- covered, filled, crowded, tossed about
- secession
- formal withdrawal from an organization or a country
- purge
- clean out; eliminate; flush out.
- Coffer
- Container, vast chest
- Revulsion
- disgust;loating;dislike;nausea
- advent
- arrival; coming; start; beginning; introduction
- Queue
- line;to get in line
- Emulate
- to strive to equal or excel, usually through imitation
- affluent
- rich; prosperous
- Unconscionable
- not controlled by conscience;unscrupulous
- conciliatory
- making peace, attempting to resolve a
- Malign
- To say something bad
- sally
- sudden rushing forth; outburst; excursion
- disparate
- separate and unrelated; dissimilar; distinct; contrasting
- tirade
- prolonged and bitter speech
- agrarian
- of or related to fields, lands and agriculture
- Demagogue
- a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
- Epidemiology
- branch of dealing w/causes & distribution of disease in populations
- blandishment
- flattery;allurement; something to coax or cajole
- temperance
- self-control, esp. regarding alcohol; restraint
- condone
- to overlook; to permit to happen
- fallopian tube
- duct that the conducts egg from the ovary to uterus
- insignia
- logo; symbol; motif; badge; crest; emblem
- cavaliers
- horsemen, mounted soldiers, knights
- ameliorate
- to make better or more tolerable
- predilection
- fondness;liking; affinity; penchant; partiality
- bastion
- stronghold, fortress, fortified place
- myriad
- a huge number
- Infrastructure
- road,rail,communications networks,building & public works that = physical foundations of society
- Apocryphal
- of dubious authenticity;fictitious;spurious
- torrent
- flooding, downpour
- Dionysian
- of or related to the Greek god of wine and revelry
- deference
- submission to another's will, respect, courtesy
- Annexed
- to take control of
- compel
- demanding attention, convincing, forceful
- Reticent
- resurved,quiet,taciturm, modes
- insidious
- sinister; dangerous; treacherous; harmful but enticing
- loquacicous
- talking a lot or too much
- sedantary
- not involving lots of physical exercise; relaxed; inactive
- beneficence
- kindness
- abject
- wrtched; miserable
- Dixie
- southern states, Confederacy
- protracted
- long and drawn out; extended;lengthened
- recrimination
- criticism and accusation
- cant
- insincerity; false piety; hypocrisy; lip service; humbug lingo; jargon
- Minion
- Follower, advocat
- Orthopedic
- branch of medicine handing w/skeletal system & associated muscles,joints, and ligaments
- improvident
- failing to prepare or provide for the future
- subversive
- corrupting; overthrowing; undermining
- repudiate
- reject, renounce, disown, to have nothing to do with
- tenable
- defensible; acceptanble; reasonable; justifiable
- Dirge
- funeral march or song;sad song
- supercilious
- haughty, patronizing, arrogant, ponpous
- iexorable
- unstoppable; inevitable; untiring; unrelenting; persistent
- ostensible
- supposed; purported; putative; presumed; on the surface
- indigenous
- native to a region; original; aboriginal; local
- Demographic
- of or related to statistics characterizing human populations,esp.consumers
- capricious
- unpredictable; likely to change at any moment
- Proselytize
- to convert (someone) from one religion or doctrine to another;to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine
- cornucopia
- abundance; wealth; horn overflowing with fruit as a symbol of wealth
- renegade
- traitor, turning against
- Corpulent
- fat, obese,fleshy,chubby,rotund
- malfeasance
- illegal act, especially by a public official
- unabashed
- poised; not embarrassed; obvious
- allure
- appeal; magnetism; attraction; charm; glamour
- caulked
- make water/air tight by sealing
- repository
- storehouse; warehouse; storage area; archive
- gauche
- unskillful, awkward, maladroit