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Impunity

Freedom from unpleasant consequences: Exemption from punishment, harm, or recrimination.
When you have impunity, you could have done anything you would have wanted. There are no consequences.
by Jafje April 10, 2007
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Implementation

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1) Tool: a useful piece of equipment, usually a specially shaped object designed to do a particular task.

2) Law requirement: something needed in order to achieve something else.

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1. Carry out or fulfill something: to put something into effect or action.

2. To provide or equip somebody with the tools or other means to do something.
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1) Writing implements.
2) They still need to get that through implementation.

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1) The plan has yet to be fully implemented.
2) The thieves were given all necessary implementations.
by Jafje July 11, 2007
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Libel

1). Defamation: a false and malicious published statement that damages somebody's reputation.

2). Damaging one's reputaion.
1). Libel can include pictures and any other representations that have public or permanent form.

2). The making of false and damaging statements about somebody is libel.
by Jafje September 30, 2007
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Rearmament

Building up a new store of weapons, or replacing old weapons with better ones.
When you're preparing for war, you need to go through a rearmament.
by Jafje May 25, 2007
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Bodega

1. A small grocery store, often found in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

2. In a Spanish-speaking country, a wine shop or a warehouse for the storage of wine.
1. I'm off to a bodega to buy some groceries.
2. I'm off to a bodega to buy some wine.
by Jafje April 15, 2007
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Obscure

1. Hard to understand: Difficult to understand because of not being fully or clearly expressed.

2. Indistinct: Not able to be seen or heard distinctly.

3. Unimportant or unknown: not important or well-known.

4. Known to few people: Unknown to most people, e.g. because of being hidden or remote.

5. Dim: dark, shadowy, or clouded.
1. An obscure passage in the manuscript.
2. Its outlines are obscure, but the object seems roughly cigar-shaped.
3. An obscure portrait painter.
4. An obscure object.
5. An obscure corner of the hall.
by Jafje April 5, 2007
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Decay

1. To rot: To decompose and become soft, crumbly, or liquefied, or make something do this.

2. To decline in quality gradually and steadily, or make something do this.

3. To undergo spontaneous disintegration.

4. To decrease gradually in magnitude.

5. To decrease gradually in altitude.
1. The corpse is in an advanced decay.
2. Because they kept mixing their coke with sugar, the quality decayed.
3. The fosfor decayed.
4. Refers to a physical quantity or effect.
5. When in space, a satellite starts descending, orbit decays.
by Jafje April 15, 2007
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