DICTIONARIES: DATA: HOME
avert: avoid
beguile: lead by deception
celibacy: state of not being married
dreadnought: a warm garment of thick cloth, a battleship, one that is among the largest or most powerful of its kind
dredge: dig
enjoinder: an authoritative request: command, an interdiction or prohibition: an injunction
ex parte: on or from one side or party only (used for legal proceedings): from aone-sided or partisan point of view
feckless: weak or ineffective, worthless or irresponsible
groundling: a spectator who stood in the pit of an Elizabethan theater: a person of unsophisticated taste
jaundiced: affected with or as if with a disease characterized by yellow pigmentation of the skin:
exhibiting or influenced by envy, distaste or hostility
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impervious: not allowing entrance or passage: impenetrable, not capable of being damaged or harmed,
not capable of being affected or disturbed
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ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed or resisted: inevitable
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leviathan: the political state: a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy, something large or formidable
nugatory: of little or no consequence: trifling, inconsequential: having no force: inoperative
ovation: ceremony of popular activism
putrefaction: corruption
solipsism: extreme egocentrism
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temporize: to act to suit the time or occasion: yield to current or dominant opinion: to draw out discussions
or negotiations so as to gain time
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traceability: ihnilasimotita