Hiroshima Final Vocab Flashcards

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Distasteful

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Repugnant

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Feeling slightly sick

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Queasy

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Searched among rubbish

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Scavenged

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Important, noteworthy

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Significant

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To shed or cast off

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Sloughed

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Surrender, gave into

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Succumbed

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To fester, become pus-filled

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Suppurated

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Causing or bringing good luck

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Talismanic

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Lush and green

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Verdancy

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A whirling mass of air

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Vortex

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Prearranged meeting place

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Rendezvous

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Looking back

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Retrospect

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Altar or hallowed place

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Shrine

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Anxiety or showing of concern

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Solicitous

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Help in time of need

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Succor

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Covers in cloth and bandage

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Swathed

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A striking picture

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Tableau

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Harsh acts

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Tyrannies

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Energy , vigor

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Vitality

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Distrusting

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Xenophobic

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Battle cry

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Banzai!

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Japanese nickname for the B-29 bombers

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B-san

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Suicide

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Seppuku

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Religion

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Shinto

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Policy of bringing all eight corners of the world into one imperial Japanese roof

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Hakko ichiu

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Leader of the samurai

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Shogun

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Drive out and destroy

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Uchi harai

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Codes of ethnics

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Bushido

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Japanese pilots

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Kamikaze

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Explosion affected persons

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Hibakusha