Test 2/11/15 Flashcards by kevin eaise | Brainscape

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Futile

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Having no useful result

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Nostalgia

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Bittersweet longing for something from the past

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Poignantly

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In a profound moving matter

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Ostensibly

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Seemingly to all outward appearances

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Retribution

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Something given as a repayment usually as a punishment

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Stoicism

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Not showing pain, straight face

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Perverse

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Stubbornly contrary

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Bravado

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False showing of courage or defiance

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Impotent

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Powerless

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Exuberance

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Conditions of unrestrained joy

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Degradation

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humiliation

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Squalor

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Shabby wretched because of poverty

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Beleaguered

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To surround with military forces

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Fanatic

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Being crazy about a subject or person

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Ascetic

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Extreme self denial

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Ruse

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A trick or distraction

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Imminent

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Definite

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Infallibility

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Inability to be wrong

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Doggedness

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Persistence or stubbornness

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Evanesce

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To disappear gradually

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Heresy

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A wrong ideal