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What is the word for someone who doesn’t follow the laws and governmental powers of their country [duplicate]
I’m currently trying to find the word one would describe a person that does not follow the governmental structure and laws of their country.
My example is the views some native maori people of NZ have ...
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What word (adverb, preferably) can we use to show that we need to study harder and cover more stuff than usual in a short amount of time?
"We need to study ___________(ly) in order to not fall behind."
Being a non-native speaker, I'm thinking of the words "compactly" and "compressedly" (whose translations ...
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Word for "under the support/help and protection of"
"Homes of a particular community vandalized by the goons under the support and protection of police."
How can I say this in a better way? The police was with the goons. Goons got full support and ...
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A word or words to describe the relationship between humanity and the natural world
It's a bit of a hard one to describe but i'll try my best, and give a little context too:
So my project is about the way that humans 'use' nature for their own gains. It's more about the feeling that ...
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How to better express "Dwayne Johnson has been given more footage than Jason Statham in the movie" [closed]
By footage I do not mean on screen time. I mean Dwayne Jhonson has been given scenes that show him to be better than Jason Statham. Although both were given roughly the same on screen time, Dwayne was ...
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What do you call a person who does not stand up for themselves [closed]
What do you call a person who does not stand up for themselves? I'm looking for a word to describe how a slave thought of his kind back before the Civil War started. The word have to be a synonym to ...
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How to describer "Checking with alliances/signed-agreements to see if something is permitted/lawful" in two or three words [closed]
If your boss asks you if we (that is, our company) can do something (like a particular import from a company in another particular country), and you say that we will have to check with the agreements ...
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Adjective for not knowing any better
I can't think of a word that would describe the feeling of not knowing any better.
The description is for a child, and the sentence would go like:
He was young and an adjective with this meaning ...
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Word or phrase for someone accepting a story completely & unquestioningly
If someone accepts a version of a story completely, without questioning any part of it, they ..... what?
I'm looking for a word or a phrase or a more elegant, eloquent way of saying it.
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Expression for "a place where you could settle and live without having to ask for permission, pay taxes, ..." [closed]
On the History Stack Exchange they were talking about “white spots”. Is there a proper expression, a single word, or a phrase for such a place?
By "white spot" I mean a place where you (if you ...
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A more elegant way of writing "attempt to replicate them" for Teaching Statement
I'm writing up my Teaching Statement for an Assistant Professor position in the sciences. Because all I do is read and write science, I have no elegance in my writing at all! I'm trying to make the ...
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One word for "Unseen but felt" or maybe a better expression to denote the exact meaning?
Romantic relationships and sexual activeness are also sensitive areas where competition among men is unseen but felt.
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Person who pretends to not understand unless one speaks in exactly the words they expect [duplicate]
I just realized there are some people around my workplace who
always try to correct me when using a certain word, saying that that's not how I should speak, and I should use other words (the ones ...
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Things saving the memory of gone people -- are called?
We all love to save things, collect items, items/things that remind us of departed souls or gone people. They're gone from life, but may or may not be dead. What are those things called?
They might ...
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Fear of asking girl out - is called ...?
Fear or phobia of asking girl out, fear of rejection(that she would say no or even worse).
Here, Soceraphobia (fear of her father/brother) is not involved.
Mostly guys are feared by most compelling ...
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