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Countdown--Words With Numbers......
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| atonement: amends for wrong-doing; expiation. | |
| bicameral: composed of two houses, chambers or branches. | |
| Decalogue: the Ten Commandments. | |
| decimate: to destroy a great number or proportion of. | |
| dichotomy: division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions. | |
| double-tink: the belief in two contradictory ideas at the same time. | |
| millennium: a span of a thousand years; a period of general righteousness and happiness. |
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| nihilism: total rejection of established laws and institutions; total destructiveness toward the world and oneself. |
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| penultimate: next to the last. | |
| primeval: original; belonging to the first or earliest ages. | |
| protocol: forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of states; the first copy of a treaty or document. |
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| quatrain: a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. | |
| quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something; the purest or most typical instance. |
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| tessellated: like a mosaic; checkered. | |
| untrammeled: unhampered; unrestrained. | |