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Who uses both his hands with equal skill

Ambidextrous

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Who believes in destruction of all forms of government

Anarchist

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Who leaves a religion or faith

Apostate

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Who is appointed to settle disputes between two parties

Arbitrator

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A place where birds are kept

Aviary

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Who loves books

Bibliophile

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Whose religious view is very narrow

Bigot

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An insult of God

Blasphemy

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An object which breaks easily

Brittle

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Blood relationship

Consanguinity

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Opposed to great or sudden change

Conservative

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Who doubts every good thing

Cynic

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Producing the desired result

Efficacious

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Someone leaving one's country to settle in another

Emigrant

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An official sent on a diplomatic mission

Emissary

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Killing someone suffering from incurable disease

Euthanasia

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A short journey for fun

Excursion

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Who spends without care and excessively

Extravagant

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One having excessive enthusiasm for a cause

Fanatic

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Very choosy and hard to please

Fastidious

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Who believes in faith

Fatalist

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Killing of one's own brother

Fratricide

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Given without charge

Gratis

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Killing of man

Homicide

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Who wastes his time without any job

Idler

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The policy of extending a country's empire

Imperialism

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Who poses himself as someone he is not

Imposter

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Which cannot be erased

Indelible

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Which cannot be done without necessary

Indispensable

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Which cannot be understood or realized easily

Inscrutable

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Examination of of one's one's thoughts or experience

Introspection

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Who travels from place to place

Itinerant

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Who dies for one's country

Martyr

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An attitude measuring everything in terms of money or profit

Materialistic

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Killing of one's own mother

Matricide

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Marrying with one person

Monogamy

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Hater of mankind

Misanthrope

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A drug causing sleep or intoxication

Narcotic

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Giving undue favours to one's relative

Nepotism

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Knowing everything

Omniscient

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Who speaks skillfully

Orator

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A story intended to reveal a moral or spiritual truth

Parable

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Killing of one's own father

Patricide

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Who has no taste for literature, art or music

Philistine

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Using someone else's ideas as own

Plagiarism

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Who knows many language

Polyglot

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Who live alone and avoids people

Recluse

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Murder of king

Regicide

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Habitually reserved and silent

Reticent

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Driving pleasure by inflicting pain on others

Sadism

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Who is made to suffer for another

Scapegoat

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Talking to oneself

Soliloquy

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Who walks in sleep

Somniloquist

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Who is indifferent to pleasure or pain

Stoic

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Very clear in meaning

Unambiguous

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Which can not be predicted before

Unforeseen

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A word to word copy

Verbatim

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Using too many word in writing or speaking

Verbose

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A battle or a match in which neither party wins

Drawn

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