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| congenital | adj. present at birth but not hereditary; inborn; having a characteristic so strong as to be part of one's nature |
| consensus | n. a general agreement or opinion; a majority opinion |
| interminable | adj. endless; occuring over and over again indefinitely |
| sallow | adj. grayish yellow in color; sickly pale |
| repugnant | adj. contradictory; offering resistance; distasteful; disgusting |
| sortie | n. a sudden attack by troops from a defensive position; a single mission of a lone airplane against an enemy |
| betrothed | adj. engaged to be married; n. a person who is engaged to be married |
| intrepid | adj. brave or resolute; showing great courage |
| beneficent | adj. kind; charitable; doing good |
| ambivalent | adj. having mixed, conflicting, or changing emotions or thoughts toward a person or thing |
| supplication | n. the act of asking humbly and earnestly; a prayer; a petition; an entreaty |
| resilient | adj. easily springing back to an original form; flexible; recovering quickly; buoyant |
| factions | adj. causing disunity, dissension, or disputes; quarrelsome |
| autocrat | n. a ruler with unlimited pwer; a dictator; a domineering person |
| archives | n. a place where public records or historical documents are kept; the records or documents kept in such a place; v. to keep on store such records |
| frustrate | v. to prevent from accomplishing; to cause feelings of discouragement |
| adamant | adj. unbreakable due to hardness; unrelenting; unyielding |
| procrastinate | v. to put off until later; to delay without a good reason |
| antagonize | v. to make and enemy of; to oppose or counteract |
| peremptory | adj. arrogant; allowing no denial or refusal; absolute |
