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| Ambiguous | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations, of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify |
| Ambivalent | uncertainty, inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things |
| Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt |
| Grizzled | having gray or partly gray hair |
| Heresy | any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs, customs, etc. |
| Ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group |
| Ipso Facto | by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed |
| Sabotage | any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute |
| Totalitarian | of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life |
| Unorthodox | Breaking with convention or tradition |
| Compromise | a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands. To expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize |
| Denounce | to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in a court |
| Entrails | the intestines |
| Hedonist | person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification |
| Inarticulate | lacking the ability to express oneself, esp. in clear and effective speech |
| Mysticism | a doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation or ecstasy |
| Reverie | a daydream |
| Torpid | slow; dull; apathetic; lethargic |
| Truncheon | the club carried by a police officer |
| Cynical | bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic |
| Demography | the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations |
| Equivocal | allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, esp. with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous |
| Expropriate | to take (something) from another's possession for one's own use |
| Indefatigable | incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring |
| Indoctrinate | to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view |
| Ingrained | firmly fixed; deep-rooted; inveterate |
| Meager | deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate |
| Oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few |
| Paraphernalia | equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity |
