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socialism 'a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government'
uphold 'to let stand'
due process 'a course of formal proceedings (as judicial proceedings)'
asylum 'protection from arrest and extradition given especially to political refugees'
insubordinate 'disobedient to authority'
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a simultaneous discharge of guns
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