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AQWF Flashcards

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Voracity

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Quality of having a huge appetite

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Ostracized

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To exclude from a group by common consent

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Obliterate

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To remove from existence

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Esprit de corps

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Common spirit existing in members of a group; comradeship

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5
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Revile

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To subject to verbal abuse

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Uncanny

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Beyond what is normal

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Decorum

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Conventions of polite behavior

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Fallible

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Liable to be wrong

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Swoon

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To faint

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Insatiable

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Incapable of being satisfied

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Unscathed

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Not injured

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Apparitions

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A ghostly figure

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Remote

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Far removed in space

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Solace

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Comfort during grief

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15
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Sultry

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Very hot and humid

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Docile

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Easily led or managed

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Affably

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Characterized by ease and friendliness

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Zeal

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Will to do something

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Ludicrous

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Deserving laughter or scorn

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Furtively

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Quietly and secretively

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Detains

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To hold or keep as if in custody

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Placate

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To soothe or appeases by concessions

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Fastidious

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Having high and often difficult to please standards

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Surreptitiously

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In a stealthy way

25
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Melancholy

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A depression of spirits

26
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Reproach

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An expression of rebuke or disapproval

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Despicable

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Deserving to be despised

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Iillusion

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The state or fact of being intellectually deceived

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Superflous

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Marked by wastefulness

30
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Solidarity

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Unity of a group based on common interests, objectives, and standards.

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drafted at

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18

32
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Wounded

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5 times

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Published in

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1928

34
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Created controversy in

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Germany

35
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Didn’t

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Justify German POV

36
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Died in

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1970

37
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Became US citizen in

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1947

38
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Neorealism

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Matter-of-fact

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Universality

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Applies to every soldier in every war

40
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Man vs

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Himself

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Setting

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1915-1918 France

42
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QA

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Questioning of Authority: doubting those in authority; defiance

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ID

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Internal Destruction: Man vs. Himself; conflicted on own opinion based on sights sounds and actions

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HW

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Horrors of War: Graphic details; friends dead

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C

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Comradeship: Close bond between soldiers

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