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  1. abeyance        suspension or temporary inaction                                                                    
  2. Altercation     noisy, heated, angry dispute                                                                        
  3. Archipelago     A group of islands                                                                                  
  4. brevity         shortness of duration; expressed in few words;    concise                                           
  5. Chicanery       Deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry                                                         
  6. Crony           A clsoe friend esp. of long standing                                                                
  7. divergence      going away in different directions; deviation                                                       
  8. Fetish          An object of irrational reverence or              obsessive devotion                                
  9. Harbinger       Something that foreshadows what is to come                                                          
  10. improvisation   the act of composing, reciting, etc., without any preparation; using whatever is at hand            
  11. kilter          proper or working order                                                                             
  12. malice          an intention or desire to injure another                                                            
  13. Myriad          An immense number                                                                                   
  14. Orbit           A path described by one body in its revolution    around another                                    
  15. Perturbation    A disturbance of the regular course of a thing                                                      
  16. quidnunc        one who seeks to know all that is going on; a     busybody                                          
  17. Repugnance      the state of feeling aversion or resistance; anti-pathy                                             
  18. sophism         a false argument intentionally used to deceive                                                      
  19. Travail         strenuous physical or mental labor; anguish or    pain                                              
  20. Vertigo         a feeling of whirling around; dizziness                                                             
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