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From the front hallways to the back rooms
Some borrowed words don't get returned
Or, Why Pig Meat is Called 'Pork' and Cow Meat is Called 'Beef'
spurious of a deceitful nature or quality
righteous We provide an assortment of definitions
Kafkaesque 'A nightmarish quality'
mike "microphone"
moron “a very stupid person”
Name that government! Or something like that.
to speak evil of
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