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  • Formal public speaking; typically more dramatic and passionate than everyday speech
    Oratory
  • To put off until a later time
    Postpone
  • Lack of flow, movement, or development
    Stagnation
  • Pesticide
    A toxic chemical used to kill insects that feed on crops or spread disease
  • Very different from the usual or traditional; favoring extreme changes in existing views, habits, conditions, or institutions
    Radical
  • Yearning
    A tender or urgent longing
  • A disastrous evil
    Plague
  • Adamant
    Unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion
  • Advocating
    To support or argue for a cause or policy; to plead in favor of
  • To be or become feeble; weak state of mind
    Languish
  • Overcome or defeated in a conflict
    Vanquished
  • Humanity
    Compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior
  • Delivery
    Manner in which a speaker gives a speech
  • Oppress
    To burden by abuse of power or authority
  • Unquestionable
    Absolute
  • To support or argue for a cause or policy; to plead in favor of
    Advocating
  • Cadence
    Rhythm and flow of language
  • Idly
    Without much thought, effort, or attention
  • Crusader
    A person who makes a passionate and lasting effort to bring about social or political change
  • Mindful or observant
    Attentive
  • Unraveling
    To cause to come apart
  • Complacency
    Self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers
  • Utter or pure
    Sheer
  • A tender or urgent longing
    Yearning
  • Lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
    Ignorance
  • Compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior
    Humanity
  • A toxic chemical used to kill insects that feed on crops or spread disease
    Pesticide
  • Without much thought, effort, or attention
    Idly
  • To burden by abuse of power or authority
    Oppress
  • Postpone
    To put off until a later time
  • Abandoned or mistreated
    Betrayed
  • Confrontation
    A face-to-face meeting, usually with clashing ideas
  • a person who uses or supports strong actions (such as public protests) in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue
    Activist
  • A person who makes a passionate and lasting effort to bring about social or political change
    Crusader
  • To make timid or fearful
    Intimidate
  • Attentive
    Mindful or observant
  • Stagnation
    lack of flow, movement, or development
  • Self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers
    Complacency
  • Sheer
    Utter or pure
  • Gesture
    Movement of the hands or body that conveys meaning
  • Causing death
    Fatal
  • Radical
    Very different from the usual or traditional; favoring extreme changes in existing views, habits, conditions, or institutions
  • Rhythm and flow of language
    Cadence
  • Ignorance
    Lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
  • Betrayed
    Abandoned or mistreated
  • Plague
    a disastrous evil
  • Manner in which a speaker gives a speech
    Delivery
  • A face-to-face meeting, usually with clashing ideas
    Confrontation
  • Exploit
    To make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage
  • Movement of the hands or body that conveys meaning
    Gesture
  • Absolute
    Unquestionable
  • Fatal
    Causing death
  • Languish
    To be or become feeble; weak state of mind
  • Vanquished
    Overcome or defeated in a conflict
  • Unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion
    Adamant
  • To cause to come apart
    Unraveling
  • Oratory
    Formal public speaking; typically more dramatic and passionate than everyday speech
  • Activist
    a person who uses or supports strong actions (such as public protests) in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue
  • To make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage
    Exploit
  • Intimidate
    To make timid or fearful
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