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Indigenous
(adj) describes people or things that are native to a region. Immigrants and transplants don't qualify.
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interloper
Intrude where they aren't wanted, whether they are meddlers in affairs of others or merely non-indigenous species of a plant.
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extraneous
(adj) "coming from the outside," more likely to have strong sense of irrelevent or unimportant
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inherent
Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute: "inherent dangers". integral to its being. part of the figurative DNA
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germane
(adj) "relevant" or "suitable"
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pariah
(n) social outcast, somone not accepted in society.
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endemic
(adj) native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area.
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intrinsic
(adj) Belonging naturally; essential. inward synonym to inherent and innate
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ostracize
(v) pariah, expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively.
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tangential
(adj) "slightly touching" or "barely connected"
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ominous
(adj) a foreshadowing of the future, always threatenging, the menacing.
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portentous
something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future. pretentiously weighty, pompous.
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inauspicious
(adj) predicting the future, usually negative
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imminent
(adj) something about to occur. positive or negative.
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impending
threatening or not. arrival of the event hangs over you.
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minatory
(adj) threatening
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presage
(v) a forewarning, ominous feeling, prediction
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bode and forebode
omen, forebode intesnsifies the presentiment
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propiate
(v) actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose favorable outcomes
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harbinger
(n) forerunner, early warning or messener of what's to come
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dissipation
(n) (a) literal scattering or dispersing, and (b) a specialized sense of scattering one's energy through immoderate pursuit of trivial pleasers, especially activites such as gambling, intemperate drinking, and sexual activity
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disefranchize
lose the right to vote
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forfeiture
(n) penalty, giving up of something in one's possesion
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denude
(v) trees losing leaves or vegetation, to make bare
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privation
(n) deprived of basic necessities or comforts
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divest
literally undress. "getting rid of"
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renounce
(v) giving up something formal
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elagiac
(adj) sadness from a loss-friends, love, youth
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bereave
(v) "to leave desolate, usually by death."
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