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38 Cards in this Set
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Impel
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To drive or urge forward.
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Convulsion
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Violent agitation or disturb.
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Redress
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The setting of right and wrong.
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Denounce
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To condemn.
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Magnanimity
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The quality of being generous in forgiving.
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Endeavor
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To try, attempt.
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Evince
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To show clearly.
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Ursupation
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Wrongful seizure.
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Despotism
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The exercise of absolute authority.
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Kindred
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A group of related individuals.
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Transient
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Not enduring, permanent.
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Consanguinity
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Related by a common ancestor.
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Constrain
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To force.
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Tyranny
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Unfair rule by a dictator.
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Acqiesce
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To assent tactity.
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Arbitrary
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Willful, temporary.
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Annihilate
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To destroy completely.
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Hither
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To or toward this place.
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Sufferance
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Capacity to endure pain.
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Derive
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To get original origin.
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Institute
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To set up.
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Insurrection
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An act of rising rebellion against government.
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Assent
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To agree or concur.
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Inestimable
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Incapable of being estimated.
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Rectitude
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Rightness of principle or conduct.
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Sufferance
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Capacity to endure pain.
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Endowed
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To provide with permanent fund or source of income.
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Depository
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A place to deposit things.
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Dissolution
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The act of resolving/dissolving into elements.
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Transient
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Not lasting.
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Prudence
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The quality of being wise.
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Formidable
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Causing fear.
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Culture
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A set of rules or standards shared by members of a society, which when acted upon by the members produce behavior that falls within a range of variation the members cosider proper and acceptable.
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Society
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A group of people who ocupy a specific locality and who share common cultural traditions.
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Enculturation
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The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Ethnocentrism
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The belief that one's own culture is superior to all others.
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Cultural relativism
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The theory that one must suspend judgent on other people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms.
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Assimilate
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To make or become similar;to absorb into cultural tradition.
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