Unit 3: The Invisible Thread and "The Stories of Courage"

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  1. sabotage
    a deliberate act of destruction or disruption
  2. eviction
    the removal of someone occupying a home or land
  3. uproot
    move forcibly from a homeland into a new foreign environment
  4. degrading
    characterized by dishonor
  5. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  6. incarcerate
    lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  7. prejudice
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  8. hysteria
    excessive or uncontrollable fear
  9. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  10. adversity
    a state of misfortune or affliction
  11. detain
    deprive of freedom; take into confinement
  12. confined
    being in captivity
  13. typical
    conforming to a standard or kind
  14. willpower
    the trait of firmly controlling your own behavior
  15. treacherous
    dangerously unstable and unpredictable
  16. outspoken
    given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
  17. injustice
    an unfair act
  18. anonymous
    having no known name or identity or known source
  19. crisis
    an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
  20. ravaged
    having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
  21. extreme
    the furthest or highest degree of something
Created on Fri Mar 12 09:22:37 EST 2021 (updated Tue Mar 16 16:11:05 EDT 2021)

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