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inveigled
v: to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements
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prescient
adj: having knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight
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inanity
n: lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silliness
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askance
adv: with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval
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usury
n: the lending or practice of lending money at an exporbitant interest
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malfeasance
N: the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing especially of an act in violation of a public trust
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matriculate
v: to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree
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jurispudence
n: the science or philosophy of law
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obfuscate
(obfuscation, obfuscatory)
v: to confuse, bewilder or stupefy
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contrivance
n: something contrived; a plan or scheme
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quiescent
adj: being at rest, silent, still; inactive or motionless
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asperity
n: harshness or roughness of temper
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aver
v: to assert as a fact
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avarice
n: passion for getting and keeping riches
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beatitude
n: any state of great happiness
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bedaub
v: to smear over, as with something oily or sticky
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