People sometimes equate provincial accents with provincial thinking. - to equate - to consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing;, We joined a club that promotes cycling for fun and fitness through advocacy and education. - Advocacy - public support for an idea, plan, or way of doing something;, For many women, the fulfillment of family obligations prevents the furtherance of their career - Fulfillment - a feeling of pleasure because you are getting what you want from life;, The government's policy of high interest rates is having a detrimental effect on industry. - Detrimental - causing harm or damage;, Corporate America quickly embraced the Web as a new vehicle for advertising. - To embrace - to accept something enthusiastically; to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone., The meat was clearly unfit for human consumption. - Consumption - the act of using, eating, or drinking something; the situation in which information, entertainment, etc, She has long been an adherent of the Communist Party. - adherent(n) - a person who strongly supports a particular person, principle, or set of ideas;, She decided to forgo flowers at the funeral and asked people to send money to a charity instead. - To forego - to not have or do something enjoyable;to give up, to do without; If you forego something, you decide to do without it, although you would like it., His health suffered from over-indulgence in rich food and drink. - Indulgence - an occasion when you allow someone or yourself to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you;, They charge shockingly high prices. - Shockingly - in a way that is offensive, upsetting, or immoral; in a way that is extremely bad or unpleasant, or of very low quality;, He begged her to stay, but she simply laughed and put her bags in the car. - To beg - to make a very strong and urgent request;, Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign. - To pervert - to change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way;,

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