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::: impenitent - not repentant
::: aberrant - abnormal or deviant
::: transgression - violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong
::: hostage - person who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands
::: paraphrase - restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
::: gist - essence; main point; substance
::: poultice - soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body
::: impoverish - make poor; deprive of natural strength or something important; Ex. impoverished soil
::: bland - soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no trouble or offence
::: egotistical - egotistic; excessively self-centered(egocentric); self-important; conceited