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- -->>:abeyance::suspension or temporary inaction
- -->>:altercation::noisy, heated, angry dispute
- -->>:archipelago::a group of islands
- -->>:brevity::shortness of duration; expressed in few words; concise
- -->>:chicanery::deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry
- -->>:crony::a close friend, especially of long standing
- -->>:divergence::going away in different directions; deviation
- -->>:fetish::an object of irrational reverence of obsessive devotion
- -->>:harbinger::something that foreshadows what is to come
- -->>:improvisation::the act of composing, reciting, etc., without any preparation; using whatever is at hand
- -->>:kilter::proper or working order
- -->>:malice::an intention or desire to injure another
- -->>:myriad::an immense number
- -->>:orbit::a path traversed by one body in its revolution around another
- -->>:perturbation::a disturbance of the regular course of a thing
- -->>:quidnunc::one who seeks to know all that is going on; a busybody
- -->>:repugnance::the state of feeling aversion or resistance; anti-pathy
- -->>:sophism::a false argument intentionally used to deceive
- -->>:travail::strenuous physical or mental labor; anguish or pain
- -->>:vertigo::a feeling of whirling around; dizziness