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Glossary of difficult words

carrion - the decaying flesh of dead animals;

predator - an animal that naturally preys on other animals;

Five Families - our expression for the five major Czech financial groups;

to scavenge - (of an animal) to search for (carrion) as food;

to prod - to poke someone or something with a finger, foot or pointed object;

unspeakable - not able to be expressed in words;

chatter - idle or trivial talk;

capo di tutti capi - the boss of all bosses;

quarry - prey, victim, target;

downtrodden - opposed or treated badly by people in power;

cause they fools - the present tense of the verb "to be" is often omitted in colloquial black speech.