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Refusenik 

[noun] 
MEANING:

a citizen of the Soviet Union, especially Jewish, who is denied the permission to emigrate

Calumny

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. to disrepute or defame someone by false malicious statements
2. the act of disreputing a person with false statements

Epigram

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. a paradoxical or satirical poem or saying

Filch

[transitive verb] 
MEANING: 

1. to steal furtively
2. pilfer

Frond 

[noun] 
MEANING: 

1. a leaflike thallus
2. a large leaf, especially like that of a palm or fern, that has been divided finely