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  1. reluctantly
    with a certain degree of unwillingness
  2. senator
    a member of a legislative assembly
  3. immune
    of the condition in which an organism can resist disease
  4. immunize
    perform vaccinations or inoculate against a disease
  5. mutation
    a change or alteration in form or qualities
  6. Scientology
    a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment
  7. warrant
    formal and explicit approval
  8. dengue fever
    a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes
  9. strand
    a group of fibers twisted together to form a thread or rope
  10. minimise
    make small or insignificant
  11. sodium
    a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
  12. corrosive
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  13. suppress
    put down by force or authority
  14. contaminate
    make impure
  15. inventory
    a detailed list of all the items in stock
  16. argue
    have a disagreement about something
  17. mess
    a state of confusion and disorderliness
  18. offender
    a person who transgresses moral or civil law
  19. follow suit
    do what someone else is doing
  20. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  21. piracy
    the act of plagiarizing
  22. undermine
    weaken or impair, especially gradually
  23. aspiration
    a cherished desire
  24. revoke
    cancel officially
  25. invoke
    request earnestly; ask for aid or protection
  26. evoke
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  27. vow
    a solemn pledge to do something
  28. cutting edge
    the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife
  29. desalination
    the removal of salt
  30. give away
    make a gift of
  31. reboot
    cause to load and start the initial processes
  32. outage
    a period when something temporarily stops working
  33. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  34. peculiar
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  35. denote
    have as a meaning
  36. indite
    produce a literary work
  37. disguise
    any attire that conceals the wearer's identity
  38. combustion
    a reaction of a substance with oxygen to give heat and light
  39. completion
    a concluding action
  40. congestion
    excessive crowding
  41. counterpart
    a person or thing having the same function as another
  42. comparable
    able to be described as similar
  43. semantics
    the study of language meaning
  44. golden
    made from or covered with gold
  45. encrypt
    convert ordinary language into code
  46. communication
    the activity of conveying information
  47. cipher
    a secret method of writing
  48. swarm
    a group of many things in the air or on the ground
  49. bureau
    an administrative unit of government
  50. augment
    enlarge or increase
  51. profound
    situated at or extending to great depth
  52. leap
    move forward by bounds
  53. knowledgeable
    alert and fully informed
  54. coalition
    the union of diverse things into one body or form or group
Created on Mon Feb 04 18:44:42 EST 2008 (updated Mon Feb 04 18:49:50 EST 2008)

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