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| pacify | to soothe anger or agitation (verb)
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| pacifist | a person opposed to war or violence, especially someone who refuses to fight on moral/religious grounds (noun)
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| pact | an agreement between two or more people; treaty between nations to deal with problem (noun)
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| antebellum | existing before a war, especially before the civil war (US)
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| bellicose | warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome (adj)
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| belligerence | aggressiveness, combativeness (noun)
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| rebellion | open defiance, opposition, sometimes armed, to a person, thing, or authority
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| criminology | the study of crime, criminals, law enforcement, and punishment (noun)
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| decriminalize | to remove or reduce the criminal status of (verb)
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| incriminate | to show evidence of involvement in a crime or fault (verb)
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| recrimination | an accusation in answer to an accusation against oneself (noun)
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| approbation | a formal act of approving; praise usually given with pleasure/enthusiasm (noun)
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| probate | process of proving in court that the will of someone who has died is valid, and of administering the estate of a dead person (noun)
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| probity | absolute honesty and uprightness (noun)
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| reprobate | a person of thoroughly bad character (noun)
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| amicable | friendly, peaceful (adj)
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| enamored | charmed or fascinated; inflamed with love (adj)
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| amorous | having or showing feelings of attraction and love (adj)
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| paramour | a lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom (noun)
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| grave | require serious thought or concern serious and formal in appearance or manner (verb)
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| gravitate | to move or be drawn toward something especially by natural tendency or by invisible force (verb)
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| aggravate | to make more serious and severe; to annoy or bother (verb)
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| alleviate | to lighten, lessen, or relieve, especially physical/mental suffering (verb)
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| elevation | the height of a place; act of result of lifting something (noun)
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| cantilever | a long piece of wood metal, etc that sticks out from a wall to support something above it (noun)
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| levity | lack of appropriate seriousness (noun)
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| gravitas | great or very dignified seriousness (noun)
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| kleptomania | mental illness in which a person has a strong desire to steal things (noun)
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| dipsomaniac | a person with an extreme and uncontrolled desire for alcohol (noun)
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| megalomaniac | a mental disorder marked by feelings of great personal power and importance (noun)
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| egomaniac | someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problems and concerns of others
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| psyche | soul, personality, mind (noun)
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| psychedelic | relates to a drug that produces abnormal and often extreme mental effects (hallucinations, visions, etc)(adj)
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| psychosomatic | caused by mental or emotional problems rather than physical illness (adj)
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| psychotherapist | one who treats mental or emotional disorder or related body ills by psychological problems (noun)
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| crim (root) | fault, crime, accusation
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| grav (root) | heavy, weighty, serious
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| lev | light, raise,lighten
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| bene | well
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| am | love
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| bell | war
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| pac | agree, peace
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| prob | prove, proof, honesty, integrity
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| psych | breath, life, soul
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| mania | madness, illness, excessive enthusiasm
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