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  1. infrequently
    not many times
  2. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  3. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent
  4. tsunami
    a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave
  5. Sri Lanka
    a republic on the island of Ceylon
  6. ethnic
    distinctive of the ways of living of a group of people
  7. Syria
    an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization
  8. daunting
    discouraging through fear
  9. beset
    assail or attack on all sides
  10. insurgency
    an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a government
  11. Nepal
    a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China
  12. Guatemala
    a republic in Central America
  13. Zimbabwe
    a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
  14. Myanmar
    a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
  15. Burma
    a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
  16. Basque
    a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain
  17. Singapore
    an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula
  18. economic
    of or relating to production and management of wealth
  19. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  20. terminology
    a system of words used to name things in a discipline
  21. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  22. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  23. objectionable
    causing offense or disapproval
  24. inferiority
    the state of being lesser
  25. excessive
    beyond normal limits
  26. optimism
    the hopeful feeling that all is going to turn out well
  27. optimistic
    hopeful that the best will happen in the future
  28. economy
    the system of production and distribution and consumption
  29. Congo
    a major African river
  30. Haiti
    an island in the West Indies
  31. normative
    relating to or dealing with typical standards or patterns
  32. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  33. bloc
    a group united for a particular purpose
  34. communist
    relating to socialism that abolishes private ownership
  35. residual
    relating to or indicating a remainder
  36. socioeconomic
    involving social as well as economic factors
  37. Kuwait
    an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
  38. Taiwan
    an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
  39. affluent
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
  40. Afghanistan
    a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia
  41. Yemen
    a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990
  42. Malawi
    a landlocked republic in southern central Africa
  43. Barbados
    easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
  44. instability
    a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
  45. repression
    control by holding down
  46. manifestation
    a clear appearance
  47. imprecision
    the quality of lacking precision
  48. precision
    the quality of being exact
  49. paraphrasis
    rewording for the purpose of clarification
  50. clarification
    the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
  51. Winston Churchill
    British statesman and leader during World War II
  52. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  53. conceptual
    being or characterized by ideas or their formation
  54. commonality
    sharing of common attributes
  55. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  56. communism
    a theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
  57. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  58. comprehensible
    capable of being understood
  59. repetitious
    characterized by doing or performing again
  60. usage
    the act of employing
  61. alternately
    in an interchanging sequence or position
  62. interchangeably
    in an interchangeable manner
  63. interchangeable
    permitting mutual substitution without loss of function
  64. substantial
    real; having a material or factual existence
  65. vulnerability
    the state of being exposed to harm
  66. vulnerable
    capable of being wounded or hurt
  67. aspect
    a characteristic to be considered
  68. Botswana
    a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
  69. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  70. modernization
    the act of making up-to-date in appearance or behavior
  71. correlated
    mutually related
  72. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  73. domestic
    of or relating to the home
  74. per capita
    relating to each person individually
  75. infrastructure
    the basic features of a system or organization
  76. consumption
    the act of using something up
  77. connote
    express or state indirectly
  78. inadequate
    lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
  79. impoverished
    poor enough to need help from others
  80. substantive
    having a firm basis in reality and therefore important
  81. mired
    entangled or hindered
  82. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  83. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  84. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  85. equitably
    in an equitable manner
  86. Thailand
    a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula
  87. Indonesia
    a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
  88. Bangladesh
    a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
  89. Saharan
    of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert
  90. Mozambique
    a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975
  91. Rwanda
    a landlocked republic in central Africa
  92. Tanzania
    a republic in eastern Africa
  93. spectrum
    a broad range of related objects, values, or qualities
  94. Lesotho
    a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa
  95. Namibia
    a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa
  96. Sierra Leone
    a republic in West Africa
  97. agrarian
    relating to rural matters
  98. Czech
    of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language
  99. Mongolia
    a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia
  100. egalitarian
    favoring social equality
  101. predominantly
    much greater in number or influence
Created on Sun Apr 19 09:07:13 EDT 2009

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