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The wordepisode: (1)an incident in the course of a series of events, in the life or your experience(2) Movies, radios .and television. Any one of the separate productions in a serial.Mistrial: (1) an inconclusive trial, as where the jury cannot agree.Trigger: (1) a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuate the mechanism that discharges the weapon. (2) Anything,as an act or an event, that serves as the stimulus and initiates or precipitates a reaction or a series of reaction.Contradict: to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.Perennial: lasting for an indefinitely long time, enduring.Hinder: to cause a delay, interrupting, or difficulty in. hamper, impede, encumber. To prevent from doing or acting.Slick: smooth and glossy. Sly, ingenious.Authenticity: the quality or the condition of being authentic, trustworthy, genuine.Poignancy: profoundly moving; touching. Physically painful. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings. Neat, skillful, to the point relevant, astute or pertinent. Sharp or sour to the taste or to the smell. Disseminate: to scatter widely, as in sowing seed. To spread abroad,promulgate.Erudition: knowledge acquired by study, research. Deep, extensive learning.Arcane: known or understood by very few. Mysterious, secret, obscure, esoteric.Autonomy: independence or freedom. A self –governing community.Cosmopolitan: pertinent or common to the whole world. Having constituent elements from all over the world.Condemn: to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on,censure. To pronounce to be guilty, sentence a punishment. To declare incurable. Idiosyncrasy: a characteristic, habit, mannerism, that is peculiar to an individual.Castigate: to criticize or reprimand severely. To punish in order to correct.Potentate: a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch.O