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Definition - Being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment.
Context - Paul is finally alone and devoid of any hope.
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Definition - The condition of being disenchanted.
Context - With the death of each friend, Paul and his comrades became more and more disillusioned.
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Definition - Completely ineffective.
Context - Millions died in futile attempts to win the war.
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Definition - A systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture.
Context - The young soldier’s longing for home was much more powerful than any ideology or belief.
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Definition - Depression of spirits.
Context - The young soldier, filled with melancholy, remembered scenes from home.
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Definition - A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.
Context - Nostalgia for home created very strong bonds among the young soldiers.
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Definition - Something that establishes or serves as a pattern.
Context - World War I set forth a template for the way violence would erupt in our century.
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Definition - The curve that a body in motion describes in space.
Context - The young soldiers found themselves helpless under a crisscross of shell trajectories.
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