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Desolate
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barren and abandoned
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unshod
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not having or wearing shoes or a shoe
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maize
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corn; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears
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laboriously
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with difficulty
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apartheid
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an official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and econimic discrimination against nonwhites
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Afrikaans
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a language that developed from 17th-century Dutch and is an official language of South Africa
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kloof
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a canyon or ravine
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veld
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African grasslands; any of the open graving areas of southern Africa
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Zulu
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a member of a Bantu people of southeast Africa, primarily inhabiting northeast Natal porvince in South Africa; the Nguni language of this people
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Tixo
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Great Spirit or God
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umfundisi
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pastor
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bracken
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a widespread, often weedy fern having large, triangular, compound fronds and often forming dense thickets
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forlorn
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appearting sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned
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Arum
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any plant that has small enclosed flowers
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Dell
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a small secluded wooded valley
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wattle
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a construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches, used for walls, fences, and roofs
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squatter
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one who settles on unoccupied land without legal claim
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agapanthus
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African Lily with violet funnel-shaped flowers
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ponder
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to reflect, consider, or think deeply with thoroughness and care
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hooligan
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a memver of a street gang
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dongas
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erosion channels; steep banked ravines
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kaffir
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originally an Arabic word meaning "heathen"; later a derogatory Afrikaans term for an dark-skinned person
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robot
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traffic signal
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habitations
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dwelling or living places
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constraint
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holding back of feelings
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warder
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a prison guard
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cunning
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artful subtleness and deceptiveness
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contrive
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to plan with cleverness or ingeuity; to plan with evil
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dwindle
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to become gradually less until little remains
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vagabond
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a person without a permanent home who moves from place to place; wanderer
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transfigure
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to alter the outward appearance of; transform
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symposium
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a meeting or conference for discussion of a topic. especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
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hessian
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burlap; A strong, coarsely woven cloth used to make bags
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petrol
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gas
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amendment
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improvement
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dejection
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deep sadness
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congenial
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friendly, easy to get along with
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indesposition
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illness
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ineluctable
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inevitable
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exploitation
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selfish or unfair use
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absolve
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to pronounce clear of guilt or blame
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assessor
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an official who evaluats property for taxation; an assistant to a judge or magistrastate
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implicate
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to involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly
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reverie
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dreamlike state
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incorruptible
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honest; impossible to corrupt
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kraal
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an animal pen or other fenced enclosure
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umnumzana
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sir
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tops
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high country; hilltops
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jubilant
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joyous
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expedient
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convenient; practical
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smote
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past tense of smite; to strike; inflict a heavy blow on
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resurgent
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tending to rise again
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reproach
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to rebuke; to express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in
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cogently
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convincingly
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complicity
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partnership in crime; accomplice
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subsidize
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to assist or support with financial assistance given by one person or government to another
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callous
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emotionally hardened; unfeeling
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indiscriminate
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not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective
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unscrupulous
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oblibious to or contemptuous of what is right or honorable
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inkosikazi
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mistress
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uSmith
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Mr. Smith
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escarpment
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steep cliff
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respite
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a period of relief
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flag
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to weaken; to droop
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nostalgia
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a wistful feeling
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wrest
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to take by force or persistence
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doggedly
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in a determined way
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absolution
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forgiveness of sins
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transmute
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to change; to transform
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tremulous
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trembling, quivering, or shaking; fearful
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transfix
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to render motionless, as with terror, amazement, or awe
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mumblety-peg
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a game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground
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mealies
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corn or cronmeal, the dietarty staple
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inkosi
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chief
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inkosana
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little master
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