| A | B |
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| Nepotism | Is the practice of showing favoritism to relatives or close friends in business or politics. |
| Cogent | Persuasive, convincing, pertinent. |
| Rustic | Rural, countrified, lacking the comforts or the sophistication of a city. |
| Doctrinaire | To be dogmatic, to espouse a theory, doctrine, or belief system whether or not it is practical, to be inflexible. |
| Vitiate | Pollute, to spoil, to impair, corrupt, or pervert. |
| Uniform | Consistent, standard, without variation. |
| Coherent | To be understandable, to make sense. |
| Transgress | To violate a law, to offend, to sin. |
| Stagnation | Lack of movement that also implies staleness, a lack of progress or growth. |
| Onerous | Burdensome, oppressive, distasteful. |
| Covert | Secret, hidden, concealed, disguised. |
| Adulation | Excessive praise, adoration, hero worship. |
| Discern | To distinguish, to differentiate from something else, to perceive. |
| Genteel | Refined, polite, aristocratic, well bred, cultivated. |
| Demagogue | A rabble-rouser, a leader who tries to stir up others by playing on their emotions, rather than appealing to their reason, someone who uses people's prejudices and fears to move them to action. |
| Comprehensive | To be complete, to be inclusive, to cover a large scope, to leave nothing out. |
| Integral | Essential, in the sense of being inseparable from. |
| Obtuse | To be dense, slow to catch on, unobservant, not tuned in. |
| Decimate | To destroy most of, to annihilate. |
| Lethargy | Sluggishness, laziness, drowsiness, indifference. |
| Provincial | Simple and unsophisticated. |
| Relinquish | To release, to let go of, to surrender, to stop doing. |
| Noxious | Poisonous or very harmful. |
| Desiccate | To dry out, to remove the moisture from. |
| Peccadillo | A minor offense, a meaningless fault, a petty violation. |
