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Adjunct
(N.) something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; and assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; (adj.) added or connected in a subdorinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity.
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Bellwether
(n.) the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
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Caterwaul
(v.) to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; (n.) a harsh or noisy cry; a racket
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Chimerical
(adj.) absurd; widly fantastic; impossible
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Effete
(adj.) lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out-of-date
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Fait accompli
(n.) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
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Hidebound
(adj.) narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkably conservative
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Hierarchy
(n.) any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.
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Liturgy
(n.) a religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship
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Mirage
(n.) something illusory, without substance, or without a basis is reality; an illusion
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Morass
(n.) a patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
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