Vocab Flashcard 4-1

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Favoring relatives or friends in jobs.

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Nepotism

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Momentous tragic event: utter failure, fiasco

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Catastrophe

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Desire to cause pain or distress; intent to commit an unlawful act without justification.

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Malice

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Behavior typical of a young person, often involving minor crime.

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Delinquent

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System where groups are ranked by status or authority.

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Hierarchy

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Official power to make legal decisions and judgments.

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Jurisdiction

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Unusually, a monarch who renounces the throne and fails to fulfill a duty.

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Abdicate

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Punishment or authority: permissive, merciful, tolerant

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Lenient

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An official in a government department focused on procedural correctness over people's needs.

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Bureaucrat

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Obscuring light from one celestial body by another's passage.

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Eclipse