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  1. reluctantly
    with reluctance
  2. senator
    a member of a senate
  3. immune
    relating to the condition of immunity
  4. immunize
    perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
  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
    an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
  9. strand
    a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
  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
    of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  13. suppress
    to put down by force or authority
  14. contaminate
    make impure
  15. inventory
    a detailed list of all the items in stock
  16. argue
    have an argument 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; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  22. undermine
    destroy property or hinder normal operations
  23. aspiration
    a cherished desire
  24. revoke
    cancel officially
  25. invoke
    request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
  26. evoke
    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  27. vow
    a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  28. cutting edge
    the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife
  29. desalination
    the removal of salt (especially from sea water)
  30. give away
    make a gift of
  31. reboot
    cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
  32. outage
    a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers)
  33. seminal
    pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen
  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 modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
  38. combustion
    a process in which a substance reacts 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 or characteristics as another
  42. comparable
    able to be compared or worthy of comparison
  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 communicating; 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; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
  52. leap
    move forward by leaps and bounds
  53. knowledgeable
    alert and fully informed
  54. coalition
    the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts