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15 Cards in this Set
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Withdrawn |
detached from others,solitary,isolated. |
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sanitarium |
An institution for the care of people with a specific disease or other health problem. |
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diphtheria |
A serious infectious disease. |
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Settlement house |
In the late 19th and early 20th century, settlement houses provided services such as education,recreation, and health care to poor urban neighborhoods such as New York's Lower East Side. |
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Idealism |
The practice of forming ideals, or models to be imitated, and living under their influece. |
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Brooding |
Full of worry; troubled. |
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Combatant |
Fighter |
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Prominent |
Well-known;widely recognized |
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League |
organizations devoted to national improvement through political education or improvement of working conditions. |
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Depression |
The great depression(1929-1941) was a period of drastic economic decline, widespread unemployment, and poverty in the United States and the rest of the world. |
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Syndicated |
Sold many newspapers for publication |
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DAR |
Organization of women ancestors were in the Revolutionary War devoted to marking and preserving historic places associated with the Revolution. |
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Migrant |
Moving from place to place |
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Priority |
Something that must receive attention first. |
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Tenement Slums |
Parts of a city where poor people live in crowded, shabby buildings. |
