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a person who is filled with excessive enthusiasm about religious matters

Fanatic

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People or animals who live in groups

Gregarious

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A person who helps people a time of need or difficult times

Samaritan

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A long narrative poem

epic

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A person who is indifferent from pleasure and pain

stoic

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A person who is unable to pay debts

Insolvent

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A person who knows many languages

Linguist

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Vigrious campaign for political, social or religious changes.

Crusade

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An open revolt against authority

Mutiny

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one who has a long experience in armed forces

Veteran

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one who is new to any feild

Novice

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A person who doesn’t work for the sole of pleasure

Amature

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One who is careful about minute details

Fastidious

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To give unfair advantage to the family members

nepotism

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A general Pardon of offence

Amnesty

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A place where bees are kept

Apiary

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A place where birds are kept

aviary

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A place where aircrafts are kept for maintenance

Hangar

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A place where ships are kept for maintenance

Dockyard

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A crime of secretly taking money by someone who it was entrusted

Embezzlement

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marrying more than one husband

Polyandry

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marrying more than one wife

Polygamy

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An imaginary name assumed by the author

Pseudonym

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a group of three novels or place, each complete in itself

Trilogy

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one who does not care for literature or art

Philistine

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A person who believes in total abolition of wars

Pacifist

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A person part of fighting or is way eager to show aggression

Belligerent ; Bellicose

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Gov. by one

Monarchy

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Gov. by the officials

Bureaucracy

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Gov. by the people

Democracy

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Gov. by the rich / nobles

Aristocracy

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Gov by the rich and powerful class

Plutocracy

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gov by the few or small group of people having power over the state or orgs.

Oligarchy

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absence of gov. or law

Anarchy

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the crime of making a false statement that endangers the reputation of a person

Defamation

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One who is all-powerful

Omnipotent

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One who is present everywhere

Omnipresent

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One who knows everything

Omniscient

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the intro of the play or poem

Prologue

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the part at the end of the play or conclusion

Epilogue

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A person devoted for the welfare of the women kind

Feminist

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A man supporting only his own clan, person supporting his own group

Chauvinist

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A financial support that the person is ordered by the court to give to the spouse

Alimony

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a long speech in a play by the actor to himself

Monologue

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A poem of 14 lines

Sonnet

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the excessive regulation of formal rules and regulations that is considered reductant and hinders the action on decision making

Red tapism

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One who does not believe in the established institutions

Iconoclast

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The state of being unmarried

Celibacy

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An expert in the matter of taste

A connoisseur ; Gourmet

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A thing that can be easily broken

Fragile

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Lasting a very short period of time

Transient

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One who dies for a noble cause

Martyr

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An action or offence of speaking irreligious about God or sacred items

Blasphemy

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A stage of gradual recovery of health after illness

Convalescence

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A person who believes in fate

Fatalist

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An excessively greedy eater

Glutton

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A decision or opinion on which everyone agrees

Unanimous

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The act of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them as one’s own

Plagiarism

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An imaginary ideal society free from poverty and sufferings

Utopia

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A remedy for all evils, A universal cure

Panacea

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A list or record of items of the same type

Catalogue

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A collection of historical documents or records providing the info about a place or a group of people

Archive

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A person who spends money recklessly

Spendthrift

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A person who is careful in spending money

Frugal ; Pennypinching

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Not in accordance with the law

Illegal

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A trade or act that is prohibited by the law

Illict

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Which cannot be easily approached

Inaccessible

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Incapable of being corrected

Incorrigible

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That which is not believable

Incredible

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that which must happen

Inevitable

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That which cannot be explained

Inexplicable

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that which never fails

Infallible

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Beyond repair

Irreparable

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that which cannot be defeated

Invincible

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A decision which cannot be changed

Irrevocable

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Which cannot be read clearly

Illegible

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which cannot be burnt

Incombustible

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A written statement that accuses a person of a charge

Indictment

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A medicion to cure the effect of the poison

Antidote

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A man of odd habits

Eccentric

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A person whose attitude is to eat, drink and be merry

Epicurean

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Use of more words than needed to explain

Verbatim

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Atonement for one’s sins

Repentance

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decision made upon a political ques. by votes of all qualified persons

Plebiscite

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Said clearly in few words

Concise; Succinct

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A hater of man kind

Misanthrope

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A hater of marriage

Misogamist

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A hater of women kind

Misogynist

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A person who loves the mankind

Philanthropist

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lover of women kind

Philogynist

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The power of reading the thoughts of another

Telepathy

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One who is determined to achieve something

Tenacious

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Humour that describes the weakness

Satire

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Published after someone’s death

Posthumous

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People who are extremely poor

Destitute

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A soldier who fights for the sake of money

Mercenary

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Charging a politician with a serious crime

Impeachment

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One who is boot licker, a flatterer.

Sycophant

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