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hogwash 'nonsense, balderdash'
probity 'adherence to the highest principles and ideals'
sequacious 'intellectually servile'
inadmissible 'not capable of being allowed'
oligarch, pejorative 'a member a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes'
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