Savage Inequalities
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Penury (n.)
Penurious (adj.) - Extreme, oppressive poverty; sometimes, an exaggerated tendency to save money wherever mossible (more formal and extreme than squalor)
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Squalor (n.)
Squalid (adj.) - Filthy or degraded by neglect or poverty
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Indignation (n.)
Indignant (adj.) - Anger aroused by injustice or unworthiness
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Anomaly (n.)
Anomalous (adj.) - An irregularity, a change from the common rule, abnormality
- Destitution (n.)
- Poverty, usually money/resources
- Systemic (adj.)
- Of or relating to a system. Used when the problem is larger than the specific event you see in front of you, or the specific cause that is assigned to explain a phenomenon
- Arcane (adj.)
- Secret, known or understood by only a few people or specialists
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Subsidy (n.)
Subsidize (v.) - A grant or gift of money by the government to a private individual or business
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Equity (n.)
Equitable (adj.) - Justice; freedom from any bias or favoritism
- Meritocracy (n.)
- A system in which people earn what they have through their own achievements; an equitable system that does not play favorites based on inherited factors
- Disseminate (v.)
- To disperse or spread around (as if by sowing seeds)
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Audacity (n.)
Audacious (adj.) - Boldness, daring, courage, nerve - sometimes with a connotation or rudeness
- Credence (n.)
- Belief that something is true (to lend credence to...)
- Obdurate (adj.)
- Inflexible, unyielding, unfeeling, stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing, unwilling to listen or change
- Disingenuous (adj.)
- Insincere, giving the impression of simple honesty while being dishonest or calculating, in reality
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Superfluity (n.)
Superfluous (adj.) - A huge or excessive quantity of something
- Compound (v.)
- To put parts together and combine to form a new whole, often making the resultant whole more...extreme, unjust, forceful, complicated...
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Rebuttal (n.)
Rebut (v.) - A formal argumentative challenge, the contradiction of an opposing point of view; to prove wrong
- Circumscribe (v.)
- Literally to draw a line around, to limit the rage of motion or opportunity or possibililites by erecting a barrier
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Exhort (v.)
Exhortation (n.)
Exhortatory (adj.) - To urge strongly, to make urgent appeals, to try to incite or arouse by argument or advice
- Caste (n.)
- An inherited social class, or division of society into groups based on wealth or other sources of prestige; there is a connotation of permanence or unchangeabilitly to the word
- Disarming (adj.)
- The quality of causing others to let down their guard, of winning them over, of easing their skepticism
- Gerrymander (v.)
- To rearragne the borders of a voting district with the deliberate purpose of creating voting majorities sympathetic to the politician who is doing the redistricting
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Poignance (n.)
Poignant (adj.) -
1. Deeply moving, touching, piercing, affecting the feelings
2. Very much to the point, apt, relevant -
Anonymity (n.)
Anonymous (adj.) - The state of being unknown
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Recurrent (adj.)
Recurring (adj.)
Recur (v.) - To happen repeatedly, or as a pattern
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Polarization (n.)
Polarize (v.) - To break up into opposing factions or groups. Often used to criticize an idea that artificially separates and opposes two ideas that should not be separated because they both work together at the same time
- Endemic (adj.)
- Native to or originating in a particular people, or country, or locality or region
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Disparage (v.)
Disparaging (adj.) - To put down, to degrade, to belittle, to slight
- Inexplicable (adj.)
- Unexplainable, unable to be explicated, interpreted, accounted for
- Subvert (v.)
- To overthrow or challenge by working to undermine the foundation: Can be both positive and negative
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Disparate (adj.)
Disparity (n.) - Separate, different, distinct in quality or character
- Redistribution of resources (v.)
- This is a general economic concept that has to do with "spreading the wealth": The resources of the wealthy get "redistributed" so that everyone gets to benefit from what is available and there is more equality as a result; economic conervatives and capitalists fear this philosophy, which has often been associated with communist countries
- Vindicate (v.)
- To prove to be right, to confim, to justify, to free of blame; to absolve, to exonerate
- Circumspect (adj.)
- Careful, thoughtful, cautious, prudent, thinking before acting or speaking
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Insouciance (n.)
Insouciant (adj.) - Lighthearted lack of concern, nonchalance
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Acquiesce (v.)
Acquiescent (adj.)
Acquiescence (n.) - To give in, to yield to another, to surrender or to go along with
- Fatalistic (adj.)
- Technically, believing in fate; it is used to suggest a sense of despair or apathy about an individual's power to control the future; defeated, pessimistic; a "what will happen, will happen, and I can't change it" mentality
- Pathological (adj.)
- Diseased, medically abnomal, sick; often used in social contexts
- Red tape (n.)
- The informal term referring to the bureaucratic obstacles in the path of reform, official procedures that are needlessly complex and make it impossible to get things done