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amity
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friendship; peaceful harmony.
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icily
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in an icy manner:
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serene
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calm, peaceful, or tranquil; unruffled:
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tacit
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understood without being openly expressed; implied:
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evitable
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capable of being avoided; avoidable.
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a popular public key encrption package
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PGP
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surreptitious
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obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine:
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vindictive
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disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful:
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sated
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to fill to excess; surfeit; glut.
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Where is Silicon Valley located?
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San jose, California
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obscure
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(of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain:
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perjury
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the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
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extrapolate
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to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
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appall
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to fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear; dismay:
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ennui
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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:
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huzzas
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(used as an exclamation of joy, applause, appreciation, etc.) hurrah!
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What is the manufacture of machines on a scale of a few billionths of a meter referred to as?
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naotechnology
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palpate
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to examine by touch, esp. for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
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trifle
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an article or thing of very little value.
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malady
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any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or deepseated.
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Which cat4egories of drugs are considered sedatives/hyponotics?
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1. Barbiturates2. Thiazine derivatives
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felicity
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the state of being happy, esp. in a high degree; bliss:
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a procedure in which the key for coding is general
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public -key encryption
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What are various types of ethical guidelines?
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informed consent, higher ethic, most restrictive action
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By what routes can anticholinergic drugs be administered?
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IV, IM or SC with IV used in emergency situations. SC & IM dosages are generally higher than IV dosages
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crestfallen
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dejected; dispirited; discouraged.
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misanthropist
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a hater of humankind.
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vicarious
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performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another:
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innocuous
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not harmful or injurious; harmless:
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What is another name for CPU?
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Microprocessor
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arrogant
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making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud:
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odious
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deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
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dissonant
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disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
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abash
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to destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed:
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What is RAM also known as?
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Primary Storage
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dissemble
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to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of:
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laconic
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using few words; expressing much in few words; concise:
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coquettish
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a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
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acquiesce
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to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent:
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meticulous
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taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough:
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when you can remove and replace devices without turning off your computer
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hot swap
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too many reports! Too many Printouts! this feeling is known as what?
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Information Overload
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interlope
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to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
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croupier
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an attendant in a gambling casino who rakes in money or chips and pays winners at a gaming table.
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facilitate
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to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.):
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a method of communication in which a dedicated con
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circuit switching
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When a student posts a clip from a recent movie on her Web site, what is the ethical issue involved?
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Copyrights violated
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diurnal
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of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily.
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What are several examples of pattern recognition?
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Face ID, fingerprint ID, handwriting ID, data analysis, weather forecasting, bio slide analysis, surveillance, expert systems, voice recognition, robot vision
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benevolence
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kindheartedness
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catholic
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universal; wide-ranging
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Duplicity
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(n.) treachery, deceitfulness
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pacify
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to calm down
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conversion
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to convert (change)
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effusive
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emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative
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Gnarled
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(adj.) knotted, twisted, lumpy
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acrophobia
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morbid dread of heights
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Malevolent
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(adj.) spiteful, showing ill will
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martial
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warlike; relating to the military
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Discern
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(v.) to see clearly, recognize
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monomania
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obsession in a single area
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hoodwink
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v. to trick or deceive
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Altruistic
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(adj.) unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others
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irrevocable
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impossible to retract or revoke; irrevocable
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monogamy
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one who has only one spouse
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incessant
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adj. never stopping, going onsyn. ceaseless, constant, uninterruptedant. occasional, sporadic, intermittent
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Disperse
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(v.) to scatter, spread far and wide
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nemesis
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someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy
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weltschmerz
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weariness of life; sadness for the world
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parallelism
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the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea.
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Harass
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(v.) to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks
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bane
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the cause of ruin, harm, distress, or death
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that makes a comparision between two seemingly unlike things w/o using a connective word such ad "like" or "as".
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Invulnerable
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(adj.) not able to be wounded or hurt; shielded against attack
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apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
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