Collection 6: One Last Time

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  1. Gandhi
    political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
  2. Mexican Revolution
    a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911)
  3. ramble
    continue talking or writing in a purposeless manner
  4. foreman
    a person who exercises control over workers
  5. grope
    feel about uncertainly or blindly
  6. feeble
    pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
  7. madras
    a light patterned cotton cloth
  8. stoop
    bend one's back forward from the waist on down
  9. contractor
    someone who is hired to build things
  10. irate
    feeling or showing extreme anger
  11. clod
    a compact mass
  12. irrigation
    the act of supplying dry land with water by artificial means
  13. canal
    long and narrow strip of water for boats or for irrigation
  14. predicament
    an unpleasant or difficult situation
  15. saunter
    walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
Created on Fri Jul 18 12:33:48 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:16:53 EDT 2014)

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