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liability | legal responsibility for harming a person or property
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integrity | personal honesty and good character
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fatally | causing death or disaster
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potent | powerful
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gut | to empty or hollow out
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battle | to fight against
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famine | severe hunger, a drastic food shortage
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impact | a strong influence
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villainy | exceptional badness, as demonstrated by many serious evil deeds
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scheme | a plan, design, or program of action to be followed
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vanish | to disappear suddenly
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vestige | a visible trace that something once existed
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infinitesimal | immeasurably small
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paradigm | a pattern; a set of assumptions
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feature | characteristic
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violate | to break in upon or disturb rudely; to break (a rule)
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violation | an action that breaks a law or agreement
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intuitively | by means of a natural sense about things that are hard to observe
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valid | true or correct
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tangible | obviously real because it can be seen, touched, or otherwise observed
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sentiment | feelings; opinions based on feelings
catastrophic | extremely harmful
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bureaucratic | related to a large organization with a lot of complicated procedures
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guilty | responsible for doing something bad
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irrigation | the supplying of water to dry land
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interdict | to keep something from reaching a certain place
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unleash | to release a thing or emotion
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involve | to include something in a larger process; to engage someone as a participant
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integrally | in a whole or complete manner
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fluctuate | to change often, from one condition to another
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juxtapose | place next to one another
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illiterate | unable to read
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sacrifice | giving up something in order to have something more valuable
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kin | relatives
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phantom | a dimly visible form, usually thought to be the spirit of a dead person, a sunken ship, etc.
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implicitly | without being stated; unquestioningly
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biased | leaning unfairly in one direction