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20 Cards in this Set
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luminous
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radient
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diaphanous
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vague
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lugubrious
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mournful
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declivity
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downward slope (white men, forcing Africans downward)
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recrudescence
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awakening
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rapacious
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greedy (Kurtz and White men)
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wanton
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uncalled for; lack of moral (the white men)
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alacrity
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liveliness (whitemen and violence)
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prudence
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carefull
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moribund
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near death (Kurtz, Marlow)
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superciliousness
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haughty (white men in Europe)
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sepulcher
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tomb (Europe)
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beguiled
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cheat (the other men)
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prevaricator
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omitting important detail, deceit (Marlow and the brick maker)
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sententiously
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concise; expressing much in a few words (Kurtz doesn't say much in some places)
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immutability
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never changing (white men in Africa)
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indefatigable
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unable to be tired or weary
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primeval
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earliest of times
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altruistic
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unselfish, ethical
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evenescent
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vanishing (arrows in foggy attacks)
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