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Delineated

• to trace the outline of sketch or trace in
  outline represent pictorially He delineated the
  state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
• to portray in words describe or outline with
  precision In her speech she delineated the city
  plan with great care.

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Lionized lahy-uh-nahyz

• verb (used with object)
• 1. to treat (a person) as a celebrity to
  lionize the visiting poet.
• 2. British. to visit or exhibit the objects of
  interest of (a place).
• verb (used without object)
• 3. to pursue celebrities or seek their company.
• 4. British. to visit the objects of interest of
  a place.

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Utopia

• an ideal place or state.
• any visionary system of political or social
  perfection.

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Itinerant

• adjective
• 1. traveling from place to place, esp. on a
  circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales
  representative itinerating journeying.
• 2. characterized by such traveling itinerant
  preaching.
• 3. working in one place for a comparatively short
  time and then moving on to work in another place,
  usually as a physical or outdoor laborer
  characterized by alternating periods of working
  and wandering an itinerant farm hand.
• noun
• 4. a person who alternates between working and
  wandering.
• 5. a person who travels from place to place, esp.
  for duty or business.

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Nascent ney-suh nt

• beginning to exist or develop the nascent
  republic.
• Chemistry. (of an element) in the nascent state.

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Affiliate

• verb (used with object)
• 1. to bring into close association or
  connection The research center is affiliated
  with the university.
• 2. to attach or unite on terms of fellowship
  associate (usually fol. by with in U.S. usage, by
  to in Brit. usage) to affiliate with the church.
  
• 3. to trace the descent, derivation, or origin
  of to affiliate a language.
• 4. to adopt.
• 5. Law. to fix the paternity of, as an
  illegitimate child The mother affiliated her
  child upon John Doe.
• verb (used without object)
• 6. to associate oneself be intimately united in
  action or interest.
• noun
• 7. a branch organization.
• 8.Commerce.
• a. a business concern owned or controlled in
  whole or in part by another concern.
• b. a subsidiary.
• 9. a person who is affiliated associate
  auxiliary.

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Mete

• to distribute or apportion by measure allot
  dole (usually fol. by out) to mete out
  punishment.
• Synonyms1. deal, measure, parcel.

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Sovereign

• noun
• 1. a monarch a king, queen, or other supreme
  ruler.
• 2. a person who has sovereign power or
  authority.
• 3. a group or body of persons or a state having
  sovereign authority.
• 4. a gold coin of the United Kingdom, equal to
  one pound sterling went out of circulation after
  1914.
• adjective
• 5. belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign
  or sovereignty royal.
• 6. having supreme rank, power, or authority.
• 7. supreme preeminent indisputable a
  sovereign right.
• 8. greatest in degree utmost or extreme.
• 9. being above all others in character,
  importance, excellence, etc.
• 10. efficacious potent a sovereign remedy.

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Scathed

• verb (used with object)
• 1. to attack with severe criticism.
• 2. to hurt, harm, or injure, as by scorching.
• noun
• 3. hurt, harm, or injury.

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Opprobrium uh-proh-bree-uh m

• noun
• 1. the disgrace or the reproach incurred by
  conduct considered outrageously shameful infamy.
• 2. a cause or object of such disgrace or
  reproach.

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