A Long Way Gone chapters 18&19

Shellen R.
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  1. skepticism
    doubt about the truth of something
  2. repatriate
    send someone back to his homeland against his will
  3. jovial
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  4. reassurance
    the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
  5. convoy
    the act of escorting while in transit
  6. social action
    a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)
  7. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  8. casualty
    someone injured or killed in an accident
  9. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  10. anthropomorphic
    suggesting human features for animals or inanimate things
  11. liberation
    the act of freeing someone or something
  12. accustomed
    commonly used or practiced; usual
  13. redemption
    the act of purchasing back something previously sold
  14. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Created on Wed Oct 03 13:32:45 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Oct 16 08:21:34 EDT 2012)

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