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vocab

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fetter   a chain or shackle placed on the feet;anything that confines or restrains; to chain or shackle;to render helpless or important  
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heinous   very wicked, offensive hateful  
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immutable   not a subject to change; constant  
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insurgent   one who rebels or rises against authority; rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority, surging or rushing in or out  
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megalomania   a delusion marked by a feelings of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality  
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sinecure   a position requiring little or no work; an easy job  
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surreptitious   steathy, secret, intended to esape observation; made or accomplished by fraud  
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transgress   to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law  
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transmute   to change from one nature, substance, or form to another; to transform  
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vicarious   performed suffered or other wise experience be one person in lace of another  
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anomalous   anormal, irregular, departing from the usual  
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aspersion   a damaging or derogatry statment; the act of slndering or de faming  
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bizarre   extremely strange, unusual, atypical  
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brusque   abrupt  
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cajole   to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to decieve with soothing thoughts or false promises  
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castigate   chastise  
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contrive   to plan with ingenuity  
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demagogue   a leader who expoits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power  
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disbuse   to free from deceptio or error, set right in ideas or thinking  
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ennui   weariness dissatifaction  
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