rampant
(covid)
going unchecked, widespread
inane
foolish
ethics
code of principles
concur
agree
clandestine
secret, undercover
flagrant
outrageous, glaringly bad
admonish
to warn, to reprove
duress
compulsion, force
culprit
the guilty person
inexorable
inflexible, unrelenting; doesn’t give up
egregious
remarkably bad
distraught
mentally confused, crazed; really upset
duplicity
cunning, trickery
acrimonious
bitter
paucity
scarcity
to pass the buck
to evade responsibility
elicit
to draw forth (info)
pernicious
harmful, causing injury
tolerate
to put up with, to bear
construe
to make a deduction, to infer
impunity
act like you have freedom from punishment
illicit
illegal