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desperation
acedia, anxiousness, defeatism, despair, disconsolateness, foolhardiness, heedlessness, imprudence, no exit, pessimism, sloth
Definition
n.
a state in which all hope is lost or absent
Last update: September 12, 2015
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In
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She went straight before her in
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He wore an air of
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Pocket, in an outbreak of desolate
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Ranger drank sea water in
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He held on with
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, unnoticed now by the girls.
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Sonia cried aloud in
desperation
, as though she had been stabbed.
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The combat now assumed an air of
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The sight maddened Duncan to
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I'll try to git up a fire," said Dick, jumping up in
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