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Reconciliation= the restoration of friendly relations,his reconciliation with your uncle Nemesis:a goddess usually portrayed as the agent of divine punishment for wrongdoing or presumption (hubris), retributive justice Kleptocracy: a ruler who uses their power to steal their countrys resources. Ditch: informal get rid of or give up Vendetta: an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts

[count noun] ,the earl was seeking a reconciliation with his wife, national reconciliation.

6. Misogynistic: a man who hates women 7. magnanimity : the fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity 8. bizarre: very strange or unusual,a bizarre situation 9. seditious: inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch 10. Ubiquitous: present, appearing, or found everywhere 11. Cult: a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing 12. Insidious: awaiting a chance to entrap : treacherous ,b : harmful but enticing : seductive <insidious drugs> 13. Didactic: designed or intended to teach 14. Pretentious: making usually unjustified or excessive claims 15. Corroborate vb [krbret] (tr) to confirm or support (facts, opinions, etc.), esp by providing fresh evidence the witness corroborated the accused's statement adj [krbrt] Archaic 1. serving to corroborate a fact, an opinion, etc. 2. (of a fact) corroborated 16. kernel (krnl) n.1. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk. 2. The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone. 3. The most material and central part; the core: "that hard kernel of gaiety that never breaks" (Evelyn Waugh). 17. Intricate: Difficult to understand, obscure, complex 18. Warp: to turn or twist out of shape, different from the norm 19. Explication - the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc. 20. Tacit [tst] adj: implied or inferred without direct expression; understood a tacit agreement 21. Tandem [tndm] any arrangement of two things in which one is placed behind the other. 22. Clunky [klk] : 1. making a clunking noise 2. Informal ponderously ungraceful or unsophisticated clunky boots 3. awkward or unsophisticated 23. Lurk (lrk) intr.v. lurked, lurking, lurks To lie in wait, as in ambush 2. To move furtively; sneak 3. To exist unobserved or unsuspected: danger lurking around every bend. 4. To read but not contribute to the discussion in a newsgroup, chatroom, or

other online forum 24. Nave :adj nave, naive [naiiv] 1 simple and straightforward in one's way of thinking, speaking etc. 2 ignorantly simple.adv naively (hp):A person who opposes and rejects many of the 25. Hippie also hippy

conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles. 26. Ostentatious - (of a display) tawdry or vulgar, pretentious tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste 27. philanthropic (fln-thrpk) 1. Of, relating to, or marked by philanthropy; humanitarian. 2. Organized to provide humanitarian or charitable assistance: a philanthropic society.

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