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20 Cards in this Set
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Pretense
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Noun - False Claim, unsupported by fact
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"Pretty tense"
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Indictment
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Noun - Charged with offense
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Dogged
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Adj - Stubbornly determined
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Assimilation
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Gives up culture to fit in with their new culture.
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Encapsulation
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Noun - submerge into and keep their own culture.
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Heathen
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Noun - unconverted member of a nation that doesn't acknowledge God of the Bible.
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Quizzical
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Adj - comically quaint, teasing
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Dumbfounded
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Verb - Astonished, amazed
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coquettishly
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Adv - flirtatiously
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enrapture
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To fill with delight
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Strident
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adj - harsh sounding, shrill
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Primly
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adv - stiffly formal, precise
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Prometheus
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A titan who stole fire from the Gods and gave it to man, and his punishment was chained to a rock where an eagle at his liver every day, and his liver grew back only to be eaten again.
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Idiom
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Noun - Language or dialect of people or class, a phrase with meaning different from the literal
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Sullen
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Adj - showing resentment by morose. Gloomy, sulking
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colonialism
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Noun - country that maintains foreign colonies.
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idealist
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Noun - one who has thoughts based on a conception of things as one thinks they should be
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Realist
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Noun - one who faces the facts and is practical
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Retrogression
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Noun - a move backwards, especially into a worse condition.
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aculturation
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Noun - Can maintain their culture and still live with another culture.
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