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Unabated:
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Continuing at full strength or ability.
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Inconspicuous:
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Not prominent or readily noticeable.
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Prudence:
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Discretion in practical affairs.
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Perplexing:
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Lacking clarity of meaning, causing confusion.
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Consigned:
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Commit forever, hand over to someone.
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Entropic:
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Chaotic.
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Doctrines:
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A belief accepted as authoritative by a group.
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Venture:
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(undertaking) a risk that could be very profitable.
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Sustenance:
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A source of materials that nourish the body.
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Metaphysical:
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Very abstract, without any material form of matter.
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Hearten:
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Give encouragement to.
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Denominations:
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A class of some kind from a bigger (religious) group.
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Unitarian:
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One who believes in the freedom of belief, rejects Trinity.
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Evangelical:
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As preached in the Evangel, the word of Christ.
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Seismic:
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A very big (shift), being extremely large.
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Magisterium:
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Teaching authority.
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Infinitesimally:
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A very (infinitely) small amount / number.
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Dogma:
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Set of principles set by authorities.
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Progenitors:
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Biological ancestor.
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Primordial:
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Having existed from the beginning.
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Rivulet:
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A small stream.
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Quantum leap:
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An enormous step forward (in science/technology).
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Beguiled:
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To be tricked / fooled.
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Chimera:
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A mystical monster / evil creature.
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Shambling:
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Walking with a slow dragging motion.
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Remnants:
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The remaining portion of a gone bigger portion.
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Scott-free:
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Being without any consequences / punishment.
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Animadversion:
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Harsh criticism or disproval.
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Neolithic:
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from/in the Stone Age.
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Comprising:
 Definition
Be composed of.
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Recalcitrant:
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To be stubborn against the predominant order / rules.
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Contrivance:
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A device cleverly used for a single purpose.
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Ineffably:
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Incapable of being expressed.
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Aesthetic:
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Concerning (conservation) of beauty.
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Beneficence:
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Being beneficial, having a good / positive consequence.
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Stewardship:
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Being responsible for someone other’s future / belongings.
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Forebears:
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Persons from whom you are descended.
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Sylvan:
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A character that (mainly) lives / comes from in the woods.
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Happenstance:
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An event that, although might be arranged, actually was spontaneous. (Spontaan)
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Dichotomy:
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A division into two completely separate parts.
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Environ:
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To be around something or someone.
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Canopy:
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An area that servers as a roof, mostly against the weather.
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Precipitous:
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Done with a very great haste; very steep.
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People-permeated:
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The equal spread / permeability of people.
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Parsimonious:
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Excessively unwilling to spend.
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Vanguard:
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The group with the most advancement, leading army units.
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Retrograde:
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Moving in the opposite as the normal direction.
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Wobbly-headed:
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Something that shakes its head frequently / easily.
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Frenetic activity:
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Excessively agitated.
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Pharmacopeia:
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A book containing pharmaceuticals and formulas.
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Herbaceous:
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Characteristic of a non-woody plant or herb.
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Eradication:
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Total human induced extinction (of a social phenomenon).
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Circumspect:
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Heedful / aware / afraid of possible consequences.
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Gravamen:
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The point of the accusation that weight the most.
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Ubiquity:
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Present everywhere.
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Irrupted:
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Suddenly.
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Formicid:
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Concerning ants.
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Enigma:
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A hard study object.
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Regnancy:
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Having a great influence.
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Symbiont:
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Two organisms living of each other.
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Insidious:
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Proceeding in a gradual way, but with great effects.
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Homogenization:
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To make similar.
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Fastness:
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A remote or secrete place.
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Cognoscenti:
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Persons with superior knowledge.
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Idiosyncrasies:
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Something that is a characteristic.
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Quietude:
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A state of quiet.
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Innate:
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Present since birth.
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Ejecta:
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Matter that has been thrown out.
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Notorious:
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Having a bad name preceding you.
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Ravaged:
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Having violently been robbed or made inhabitable.
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Acronym:
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A word made from the first letters of a multi word term.
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Arable:
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Capable of being farmed productively.
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Transpiration:
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The emission of water vapor leaving plants.
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Salinity:
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The proportion of salt in a solution.
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Exacerbated:
 Definition
Make worse, irritate.
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Prosthetic:
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man-made, not natural, synthetic.
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Trajectory:
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Path, range, expected path.
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Exemptionalism:
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The believe that humans are placed above Nature, and that God exempts us.
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Crucible:
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A vessel made not to melt until very high temperatures.
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Substantiated:
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To strengthen or give form in a bodily way.
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Arboreta:
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A site where plants and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition.
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Capacious:
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Having a very big capacity.
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Homily:
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A sermon on a moral or religious topic.
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Abated:
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To decrease in
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Quixotic:
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Unrealistic, not making any sense.
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Desecration:
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Blasphemous behavior, depriving its sacred character.
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Fatuous:
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Extremely foolish, with bad consequences.
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Hot spots:
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Places of great biodiversity (decreasing) activity.
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Imperative:
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Requiring attention or action.
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Disputatious:
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Someone who likes to argue.
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Pandemic:
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Prevalent over the whole country of world.
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Epistemological:
 Definition
Study of Knowledge.
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Traverse:
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Extended across or though.
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Empirical:
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Verifiable by observation, rather than logic.
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Emulate:
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To imitate, to match.
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Immemorial:
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Beyond the limits of memory.
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Denizens:
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Inhabitant.
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Myopic:
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To be short-sighted in planning or thinking.
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Convergence:
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To move together.
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Herbaria:
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Collection of dried plants and mounted for scientific research.
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Sundry:
 Definition
Various, miscellaneous.
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Consortium:
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An association or partnership.
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Municipal:
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Having a local or self-government.
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Secularism:
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Not believing in a religion, when reviewing scientific questions.
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Autonomy:
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The ability to make decision by itself.
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Altruistic:
 Definition
Showing unselfishness concern for others’ welfare.
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