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Name that government! Or something like that.
From 'hive mind' to 'sriracha'
Kafkaesque 'A nightmarish quality'
mike "microphone"
moron “a very stupid person”
terrorism “The use of violent acts to frighten"
dotage, dotard a state or period of senile decay
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to ease or reduce in intensity
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A game of winding words.
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