legislative body
assembly, commission, congress, court, diet, house, lower house, national assembly, parliament, soviet, town meeting, upper house
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earthwork - advanced work, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barrage, barricade, barrier, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam,
the power structure - Establishment, administration, authorities, bureaucracy, directorate, establishment, hierarchy, inner circle, ins, interests, management, ministry, officialdom, power elite, power structure,
vainness - conceit, ego trip, egotism, narcissism, self-admiration, self-content, self-esteem, self-importance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, smugness, snobbery, vainglory, vanity
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moral - Christian, adage, admonishment, admonition, alarm, analects, angelic, aphorism, apophthegm, assignment, axiom, behaviour, belief, blameless, byword,
enabling - authority, authorization, certification, clearance, countenance, fiat, ratification, sanction, warrant, warranty
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homelessness - beggary, deprivation, desertion, desolation, destitution, gripe, indigence, lack, mendicancy, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, pinch, privation,
put to shame - debase, deflate, defrock, degrade, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, eclipse, embarrass, extinguish, humble, humiliate, let down, mortify, overshadow,
single file - Indian file, array, articulation, bank, buzz, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, continuum, course, cycle, descent,
snuffling - asthmatic, blurred, breathy, cant, choking, effervescent, guttural, harsh, hawking, hissing, hoarse, hypocrisy, inarticulate, indistinct, lip service,
day letter - cable, radiogram, telegram, telegraph, telex, wire
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