draconian
hard, severe, cruel
Pyrrhic
adjective: describing a victory that comes at such a great cost that the victory is not worthwhileGeorge W. Bush's win in the 2000 election was in many ways a pyrrhic victory: the circumstances of his win alienated half of the U.S. population.
gaoled
jailed
dynamism
continuous change, activity, or progress; vigor
proliferation
a rapid increase
Oligoploy
a type of competitive market with only a small number of firms who control the industry
California power crisis 2002
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currency speculation
Involves short-term movement of funds from one currency to another in hopes of profiting from shifts in exchange rates.
aggregate
Gathered into a whole; total
sacrosanct
extremely holy
sclerotic
becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt
philistine
a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
antipode
exact opposite
elucidate
to make clear
demarcation
the marking of boundaries or categories
extraneous
(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
beleaguered
troubled with many problems
opprobrious
disgraceful, shameful
aberration
something that differs from the norm
Pharonic
large grand