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Merriam Webster defines deceit (noun) as the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid .

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Tacit, also referred to as unexpressed, is what her parents did about the approval of borrowing money.

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“Some blame the Philippines’s corruption problem on the merging of Filipino traditions with American institutions. One Filipino political scientist told Smithsonian magazine, “Americans taught us the idea of honesty and integrity in civil service but local culture conflicts with the democratic model.”

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Bliss is like paradise or heaven in which someone feels complete happiness.

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Nautical sense of "leave of absence" is from 1758. Meaning "unrestrained action, conduct, or expression" (1550s) led to take liberties "go beyond the bounds of propriety" (1620s)

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Bullying occurs when someone uses his or her power or prestige to intimidate and terrorize another person. At times, the bully pushes someone around to get something specific from that person, but at other times, the bully simply is mean just to watch the other person squirm. Tormenting anyone for any reason is inappropriate and should not be tolerated.

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Once upon a time, bullying in schools only referred to the students who forced the smaller students to give up their lunch money or the ones who beat them up after school. In recent years, many schools have cracked down on bullying and have strict zero-tolerance policies.

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The Cornell University Law School website defines cruel and unusual punishment (noun) as "punishment that is extremely excessive in relation to the crime, shocking to ordinary sensibilities, or equivalent to torture."

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Many prisoners of war have been victims of cruel and unusual punishment; people were shocked and horrified when they learned of the water torture, temperature extremes, and sensory overloads that the prisoners were subjected to.

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Read and analyze the given stanza and try to formulate definitions of the word JUSTICE using the 3 types of definition.

Let us cry out in bittersweet,

how we slowly die in living,

living in death yet believing

that one day we will restore thee,

oh, good JUSTICE and liberty.