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::: embargo - ban on commerce or other activity
::: tumid - (of a part of the body) swollen; distended; bombastic; pompous
::: sensitization - process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive
::: blasphemy - irreverence; sacrilege; cursing; bad language about God or holy things; V. blasphem; ADJ. blasphemous; CF. sacrilege
::: gadfly - animal-biting fly; irritating person
::: chicanery - trickery; deception
::: contention - assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition
::: defile - pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; N: narrow passage or gorge through mountains
::: nomadic - wandering; N. nomad: tribe who migrates from place to place
::: effeminate - having womanly traits