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pernicious: Causing death or injury; deadly.

pedagogy: The profession of teaching.

replete: Abounding.

quixotic: Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.

motile: having the power to move spontaneously

munificence: The quality of being munificent; generosity

prescience: Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

mordant: Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

nebulous: In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

promulgate: To make known or public.

procrustean: producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means

incursion: An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.

moratorium: An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.

mendicant: Depending on alms for a living.

mellifluous: Flowing like honey.

meretricious: Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

loath: unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined

loquacious: Talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.

importunate: Persistent or pressing.

epistemology: The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?".

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