Devil's Highway Ch. 1

Churchill (United States of America)
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  1. desolation
    sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
  2. deception
    a misleading falsehood
  3. illuminate
    make free from confusion or ambiguity
  4. retribution
    the act of taking revenge
  5. noxious
    injurious to physical or mental health
  6. horde
    a vast multitude
  7. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  8. exclusion
    the state of being shut out
  9. nemesis
    a personal foe or rival that cannot be easily defeated
  10. apocalypse
    a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the powers of evil
  11. forensic
    used in the investigation of facts or evidence in court
Created on Tue Jun 25 08:03:08 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Jun 26 16:01:41 EDT 2013)

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