The Latin root "sper" (hope)

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  1. hope
    the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
  2. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
  3. desperado
    a bold outlaw
  4. desperate
    a person who is frightened and in need of help
  5. Esperanto
    an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages
  6. prosper
    make steady progress
Created on Wed Aug 01 16:15:45 EDT 2012

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