English vocab Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Archipelago

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Any sea, or sheets of water, in which there are numerous islands

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Astounded

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Shocked/Amazed

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Conscripted

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Forced to enlist into the army

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Compulsory

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Mandatory/Forced †o

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Cataclysm

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A great flood; A political/social upheaval

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Displacement

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The removing of something from it’s original location

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Gasp

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A sudden inhale or exhale

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Gulag

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A prison camp, primarily for political prisoners

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Tenacious

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Not easily giving up

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Bleat

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To cry as a goat, sheep, or calf

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Omnipotent

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Having infinite power

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Zek

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A prisoner held in a soviet camp

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Article 58

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Allowed for soviet officers to arrest anyone who they deemed suspicious/guilty

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13th Amendment

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Forbade slavery

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Pretense

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A false claim made to seem true

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15th Amendment

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Guaranteed that anyone could vote

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Carceral

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Relating to prison

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Purporting

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Impotent

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Relegate

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To force a person to do something meaningless

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Virulent

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Possessing venomous or poisonous qualities

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Bestial

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Relating to animals

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Stringent

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Peonage

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Being forced with servitude until your debt it payed; forced labor of prisoners

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Apparatus
A particular machine
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Exploitation
Deriving value from natural sources by harvesting; taking advantage of someone
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Harbinger
A person who indicates something; Anything that foreshadows a future event
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Pathology
The study of disease
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Corpus Delicti
Evidence; body of a victim
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Clemency
Mercy
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Vagrancy
The state of roaming abroad from place to place
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Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that Provided assistance to former slaves
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Eradicate
To get rid of
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Disenfranchise
To deprive of voting rights
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Espousal
To support a cause, party, opinion
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Disproportionate
Un-even
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