1603577072 | pelting | anything happening rapidly or in quick successive, beating against again and again | 0 | |
1603577073 | exchanged | changed for (replaced by) something different | 1 | |
1603577074 | hobo | a disreputable vagrant | 2 | |
1603577075 | recruited | to enroll or seek to enroll | 3 | |
1603577076 | decades | periods of ten years | 4 | |
1603577077 | inequality | lack of equality | 5 | |
1603577078 | eloquently | in an articulate manner | 6 | |
1603577079 | posse | a temporary police force | 7 | |
1603577080 | oblivious | failing to keep in mind | 8 | |
1603577081 | dilapidated | in deplorable condition | 9 | |
1603577082 | impoverished | poor enough to need help from others | 10 | |
1603577083 | destitute | Very poor, Deprived of the necessities of life; | 11 | |
1603577084 | sporadic | occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances, (adj.) occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order | 12 | |
1603577085 | vagrancy | the state of wandering from place to place | 13 | |
1603577086 | virtuous | morally excellent, Adjective: conforming to moral and ethical principles; | 14 | |
1603577087 | sullied | especially of reputation, made dirty or impure [opposite unsullied; sully (v)] | 15 | |
1603577088 | avenged | for which vengeance has been taken | 16 | |
1603577089 | deplorable | bad | 17 | |
1603577090 | lynchings | when small vigilante mobs or elaborately organized community events where an individual (typically black) was publicly hung due to a crime (true or perceived). Resulted from white supremacy or fear of black sexuality. | 18 | |
1603577091 | recant | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | 19 | |
1603577092 | disperse | scatter | 20 | |
1603577093 | contradict | To challenge, confront, counter, deny, or oppose | 21 | |
1603577094 | lurid | shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke | 22 | |
1603577095 | grotesque | art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | 23 | |
1603577096 | coalesence | union; a combination | 24 | |
1603577097 | balked | to stop short and refuse to proceed | 25 | |
1603577098 | vivid | (of color) having the highest saturation | 26 | |
1603577099 | unabashed | not embarrassed | 27 | |
1603577100 | fabricated | formed or conceived by the imagination | 28 | |
1603577101 | possess | To have or to own | 29 | |
1603577102 | conclusive | forming an end or termination | 30 | |
1603577103 | bayonet | a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon | 31 | |
1603577104 | condemned | officially and strongly disapproved | 32 | |
1603577105 | stay | continuing or remaining in a place or state | 33 | |
1603577106 | hesitant | uncertain or in doubt | 34 | |
1603577107 | stewards | People who are put in charge of managing, caring for, and protecting something, such as money or personal property. | 35 | |
1603577108 | inflammatory | characterized or caused by inflammation | 36 | |
1603577109 | adequate | (sometimes followed by 'to') meeting the requirements especially of a task | 37 | |
1603577110 | indiscretions | imprudent actions | 38 | |
1603577111 | anti semitism | prejudice against Jews | 39 | |
1603577112 | bigotry | the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | 40 | |
1603577113 | antagonism | (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | 41 | |
1603577114 | uncorroborated | unsupported by nother evidence | 42 |
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