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::: decapitate - behead
::: beneficent - kindly; doing good
::: ameliorate - improve
::: foresight - ability to foresee future happenings; prudence in providing for the future
::: milieu - social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor.
::: influx - flowing into
::: vie - contend; compete
::: dominant - exercising the most influence; high and easily seen; stronger than the other part of a system; not recessive
::: spectral - ghostly; N. specter: spectre; ghost; phantom
::: autocratic - having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial; N. autocrat, autocracy