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| advocate | n. one that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender; one that pleads in another's behalf; a lawyer; v. to speak, plead, or argue in favor of; to support |
| alleged | adj. supposed; represented as being as described but not so proved; v. to assert to be true; to affirm; to assert without or before proof; to state (a plea or excuse, for example) in support or denial of claim or accusation: The defendant alleges temporary insanity |
| conspiracy | n. an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act; a group of conspirators; an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action; a joining together, as if by sinister design |
| culmination | v. to reach the highest point or degree; climax; to come to completion; end; v. to bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion |
| lethal | adj. capable of causing death; of, relating to, or causing death; fatal; extremely harmful; devastating |
| manipulate | v. to move, arrange, operate, or control by the hands or by mechanical means, especially in a skillful manner; to influence or manage shrewdly or deviously; to tamper with or falsify for personal gain |
| misconstrue | v. interpret in the wrong way |
| ominous | adj. menacing; threatening; of or being an omen, especially an evil one |
| preposterous | adj. contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; foolish |
| uncanny | adj. peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; eerie; weird; so keen and perceptive as to seem preternatural |
