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Question	Answer
If you describe an action, rule, or decision as arbitrary, you think that it is not based on any principle, plan, or system. It often seems unfair because of this. Example: The committee had arbitrary rules.	ARBITRARY
Spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely. Example: The French propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards.	PROPAGATE
A set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions. Example: Liberalism was more than a political creed.	CREED
To express your ideas or feelings in spoken words. Example: She has one great fear to which she will never give utterance.	UTTERANCE
The act of piloting an aircraft or ship/The money paid to a pilot for taking a ship in or out of port, etc.	PILOTAGE
A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces. Example: Serving in the Japanese Army as agent or spy and participating in the raid of guerrilla hideout. (People vs. Munoz - Article 114 Treason)	GUERRILLA
To prevent something from being expressed or known. Example: He was accused of suppressing evidence.	SUPPRESS
The criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property. Example: Police are treating the fire as arson.	ARSON
Evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation. Example: There is no independent corroboration for this.	CORROBORATION
Betrayal of trust; deceptive action or nature. Example: His resignation was perceived as an act of treachery.	TREACHERY
The action of planning something (especially a crime) beforehand. Example: The defendant said there was no planning or premeditation.	PREMEDITATION
The quality of being fierce or cruel. / KALUPITAN. Example: A crime of the utmost savagery.	SAVAGERY
In fact, or in effect, whether by right or not. / Correct in Fact but not by Law. Example: He island has been de facto divided into two countries.	DE FACTO
Constraint illegally exercised to force someone to perform an act. Example: Confessions extracted under duress.	DURESS
The quality or fact of being very determined; determination. Example: You have to admire the tenacity of these two guys.	TENACITY
defiance of authority; refusal to obey orders. Example: He was dismissed for insubordination.	INSUBORDINATION
An open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers. / PAGHIHIMAGSIK. Example: A mutiny by those manning the weapons could trigger a global war.	MUTINY
Block (an opening, path, road, etc.); be or get in the way of. Example: She was obstructing the entrance.	OBSTRUCT
Keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, especially secretly. Example: She started to harbor doubts about the wisdom of their journey.	HARBOR
A house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context. Example: Business/School premises.	PREMISES
An act of damage or injury against an enemy in reaction to an act of damage or injury done to you. Example: Employees didn’t speak out about the company’s pollution for fear of reprisal.	REPRISAL
Urge or persuade (someone) to act in a violent or unlawful way. / PAG-UUDYOK. Example: He incited loyal subjects to rebellion.	INCITE
Unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. Example: So long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial.	IMMATERIAL
Communication by exchanging letters with someone. Example: Correspondence with the hostile country. (Article 120 - RPC 2)	CORRESPONDENCE
A secret or disguised way of writing; a code. Example: He was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.	CIPHER
Without being aware; unintentionally. Example: Any users unwittingly expose their personal details to strangers online.	UNWITTINGLY
Unfriendly; antagonistic. Example: A hostile audience. / Correspondence with a hostile country. (Article 120 - RPC 2)	HOSTILE
Lose or be without hope. Example: We should not despair.	DESPAIR
Pretentious, fancy highfalutin people. Example: He invited one of his highfalutin buddies, the president of Credit Default Swaps-R-Us, to come along.	HIGHFALUTIN
Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. Example: They are a pretentious bunch of women who think that wearing expensive clothes is the only way of showing off social status.	PRETENTIOUS
To cause or aid the development of. / NAGKUKUBLI. Example: Treason may be incubated when peace reigns. (Article 114 - Treason)	INCUBATE
Carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action). Example: Treasonable acts may actually be perpetrated during peace, but there are no traitors until war has started. (Article 114 - Treason)	PERPETRATE
The period of time during which someone or something is the best or the most important, powerful, etc. / NAGHAHARI. Example: Treason may be incubated when peace reigns. (Article 114 - Treason)	REIGN
Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless. / WALANG SAYSAY. Example: A futile attempt to keep fans from mounting the stage.	FUTILE
Impose (a tax, fee, or fine). Example: Any Filipino citizen levies war against the Philippines. (Article 114 - Treason)	LEVY
To take possession of by force or at will. Example: To seize enemy ships. (Article 122 - Piracy in General)	SEIZE
Something that completes. / So, that means if something complements something else, it completes it, enhances it, or makes it perfect. Example: A shirt can complement the color of someone’s eyes, or a wine can complement a meal.	COMPLEMENT
The intent to steal. Example: It is robbery or forcible depredation on the high seas, without lawful authority and done with ANIMO FURANDI. (Definition of Piracy - Article 122)	ANIMUS FURANDI
Someone who appeals for a legal or official decision to be changed. Example: Accused-appellant argues that in order... (People vs. Catantan / Article 122 - Piracy)	APPELLANT
in a direct and uncompromising manner; without equivocation; directly. Example: They placed the blame squarely on the president.	SQUARELY
The scope of the influence or concerns of something. Example: Such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.	PURVIEW
The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint. Example: The payment was made under compulsion.	COMPULSION
Steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder. Example: Looters moved into the disaster area to plunder stores.	PLUNDER
Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats. Example: In order to coerce the Government to give in to an unlawful demand. (Article 123 - Qualified Piracy)	COERCE
Indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated. / (of a person) living in a way that other people strongly disapprove of. Example: He led a dissolute life, drinking, and womanizing till his death.	DISSOLUTE
Dissolute behavior. Example: Mutiny under Article 122 thereby SOWING and creating a condition of extraordinary fear and panic among populace. (Article 123 - When Piracy and Mutiny considered as Terrorism)	SOW
If you're lacking the basic necessities of life — food, water, political freedom, and so on — you're suffering from privation. / a state of extreme poverty. Example: Ramseyer, his wife and infant son (the child died of privation shortly afterwards), and Mr J.	PRIVATION
Give assistance or aid to. Example: But after 11 days of hardship and privation they were succored. (People vs. Lil-lo / Article 123 - Qualified Piracy)	SUCCOR
In the middle of. Example: In the midst of pandemic.	MIDST
The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. / KALAYAAN. Example: Compulsory retirement would interfere with individual liberty.	LIBERTY