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Assuage

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to make an unpleasant feeling less intense; to calm or pacify.

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Engendered

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to cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition.

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Sequester

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to isolate or hide away; to keep a person or group apart from others.

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Reproach

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to address someone in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment.

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Apropos

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with reference to; concerning.

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Benighted

–

in a state of moral or intellectual ignorance; unenlightened.

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Indigent

–

lacking the necessities of life; impoverished.

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Obloquy

–

strong public criticism or verbal abuse.

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Depredation

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the act of attacking or plundering; robbery.

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Interposed

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placed or inserted between one thing and another.

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Every accomplishment starts with the…

Gail Devers

A successful man is one…

David Brinkley

A man’s worth is no…

Marcus Aurelius

Everything comes to him who…

Thomas Edison

People rarely succeed unless they…

Dale Carnegie

There is only one way…

Aristotle

It is by going down…

Joseph Campbell

Intelligence without ambition is a…

Salvador Dalí

Twenty years from now you…

Mark Twain

Those who don’t believe in…

Roald Dahl

At one point in Earth’s history, it rained…

The phrase ‘running amok’ originates from the Malay…

The first recorded use of ‘OMG’ as an…

Stomach acid is capable of dissolving materials like…

Studies show that a single McDonald’s beef patty…

Bottled water has an expiry date due to…

Japanese railway platforms saw an 84% drop in…

The phrase ‘paint the town red’ likely comes…

Food tastes different on a plane than on…

A man named Joel Burger married a woman…