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Hackers Lesson 46-49 Flashcards

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eulogy

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an honorific speech at a funeral

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despondent

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lacking hope

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doleful

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filled with grief

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anemic

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feeble; characterized by oxygen deficiency in the blood

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malady

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a disease

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anguish

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extreme suffering

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dirge

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a funeral song

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blight

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a diseased condition

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affliction

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a disorder causing suffering

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elegy

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a poem or song relating to death

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epitaph

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an inscription found on a gravestone

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doldrums

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the blues; persistent unhappiness

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adversity

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hardship

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etymology

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the study of the origin of words

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archaeology

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the study of past cultures

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anthropology

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the study of human cultures

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ethics

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the study of and philosophy of moral choice

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semantics

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the study of the meanings of words and symbols

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theology

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the study of religion

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pathology

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the study of disease

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sociology

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the study of human social behavior and social institutions

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entomology

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the study of insects

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genealogy

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the study of ancestry

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demographics

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the study of statistics relating to human populations

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oncology
the study of tumors
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paleontology
the study of fossils and ancient life
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neurology
the study of human brain and nervous system
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hermit
one who prefer to live alone
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ostracize
to exclude from a group
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exile
a banishment
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expel
to force to leave
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recluse
one who like live alone
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isolate
to place something apart from everything
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solitude
isolation; the quality of being alone
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banish
to force to leave an area
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outcast
an individual who has been excluded from a group
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seclusion
privacy
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pariah
an individual who has been excluded from a group
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relegate
to banish. To demote in rank
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quarantine
a period of isolation for someone infected with a contagion
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disseminate
to spread information
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diverge
to go apart
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proliferate
to group rapidly
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amass
to accumulate; to gather together
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distend
to swell; to increase in size
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propagate
to cause to multiply; to publicize; to travel through a medium
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inundate
to flood
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diffuse
to spread, as a gas
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germinate
to sprout; to grow
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disperse
to spread apart
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rampant
growing out of control
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dissipate
to scatter
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saturate
to fill completely, as with a liquid or solute
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annex
to attach; to acquire land to expand an existing country
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addendum
something added; a supplement to a book
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postscript
a message added after the completion of a letter
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epilogue
an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel
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append
to affix something; to add on
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adjunct
added in a subordinate capacity
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augment
to add onto; to make greater
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cession
to act of surrendering or yielding
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affix
to attach
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appropriate
to take another's work or possessions as one's own
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encore
an extra performance at the end of a show
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appendix
supplementary material at the end of a text
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supplement
to add something to complete or strengthen a whole
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circumscribed
having distinct boundaries or limits

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