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20 Cards in this Set
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despondent
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feeling or showing profound hoplelessness, dejection
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Reciprocate
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To make a return, as for something given
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Supplant
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To take place of another as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like
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Scintillating
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Brilliantly and excitingly, clever or skillful
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Pertinent
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Pertaining or relating directky and singificantly to matter at hand
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Complacent
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PLeased, especially with oneself or one's merits
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Cajole
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To persude by fattery or promises
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Hamper
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To hold back: hinder: impede
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Adamant
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Refusing to be persuaded or to change
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Emulate
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To try to equal or excel; imtate with effort to equal or surpass
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Obdurate
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Evil or wickness
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Duress
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Threats, voilence, contraints or action brought to bear on someone to do something against their will
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Endurance
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THe fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or hard process
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Penance
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Voluntary guilty
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Penitent
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Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong
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Endemic
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(of a disease) regularly found among particular or in a certian area
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Demographic
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Relating to the structure of population
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Demagogue
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A political leader who seeks support by appealing desire to people
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Pandemic
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A widespread occurrence of an infection disease in a community at a particular time
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Epidemic
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(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world
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