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34 Cards in this Set
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Internment |
Noun an act of confinement |
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Censored |
Verb suppressed parts of media deemed unacceptable |
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Stigma |
Noun a mark of disgrace |
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Indefinite |
Adj without a fixed limit |
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Habeus corpus |
Noun law requiring a person to be brought before a court of law |
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Travesty |
Noun a literary work that is so inferior to the original in quality it is disgusting |
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Daunting |
To overcome with fear (intimidate) |
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Quirlay |
Having a peculiar nature |
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Congregate |
Verb to come together as a group |
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Flushed |
Verb rushing of water |
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Billow |
Surge of sea or any mass (smoke ) |
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Geta slippers |
Slippers on stilt legs |
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Assimilate |
Verb make the same |
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Ravenous |
Extremely hungry famished |
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Cease |
Verb to stop or end |
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Latrines |
Toilet in a camp area |
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Hirohito |
Proper noun emperor of Japan 1926-89 |
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Tamp |
Verb to force down with repeated light strokes |
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Hobbled |
Verb a limp |
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Hobo |
Homeless person |
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Oxfords |
Fancy leather shoe |
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Repatriated |
Verb to send or bring back |
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Plucked |
To pull off or out of place |
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Inscrutable |
Adj not easily understood incapable of being investigated |
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Ration |
Verb to control the amount of something Noun a fixed allowance of provisions |
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Throbbing |
Verb to beat with increased force |
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Trickle |
Verb to flow or fall by drops |
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Loamy |
Adj characteristics of a rich mixture of sand and silt soil |
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Severed |
Verb to cut from the whole |
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Idly |
Adverb Not kept busy |
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Frock |
Gown or dress |
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Fedora |
Soft velvet hat |
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Verb to utter a succession of small tremulous sounds |
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Heave |
Verb to lift with effort or throw Adj full of something or people |
