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155 Cards in this Set
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Abjectly
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Miserably
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Accomodate
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To adjust oneself to something
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Ambuscade
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Ambush
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Antagonist
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Adversary, Opponent
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Appalled
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Horrified, dismayed, or shocked
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Appeasingly
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In a manner to make calm or peaceful; to pacify with concessions
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Apt
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Quick to learn
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Arduous
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Difficult; hard to do; strenuous
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Articulate
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Spoken distinctly OR jointed
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Assailants
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Attackers
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Averred
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Declared to be true; asserted
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Bedlam
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Place or situation of noise and confusion
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Belie
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To misrepresent; to prove false
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Belligerent
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Quarrelsome; warlike
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Cadences
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Rhythm; beat; rhythmic rise and fall of a sound, especially of a voice
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Calamity
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Event causing widespread destruction and misery
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Callous
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Unfeeling; insensitive
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Callow
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Inexperienced
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Chronic
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Lasting a long time, or recurring over time
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Communion
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A time of talking together intimately
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Compel
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To force; to oblige; to get something by force
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Conciliate
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To gain the good will of; to placate
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Conjuration
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Something appearing by magic
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Conspicuous
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Plainly visible; attracting attention
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Consternation
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Terrified astonishment; paralyzing amazement; dismay
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Contagion
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The spreading of an emotion or idea
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Contemplation
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Intent thought
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Convalescence
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Time of getting better, healing period
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Conveyance
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Vehicle used for carrying
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Copious
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Plentiful; abundant
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Covert
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Hidden or disguised
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Coveted
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Greatly wanted
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Culprit
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Guilty person
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Cunning
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Sly; crafty; subtly deceitful
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Daunted
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Frightened or disheartened
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Deluge
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Flood
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Demense
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Manor house and the land around it
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Demonstative
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Showing feelings openly
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Din
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Loud, continuous noise
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Discomfited
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Frustrated
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Discomfiture
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Confusion; dismay; embarrassment
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Disconsolate
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Unhappy; desolate; without cheer or comfort
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Divined
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Guessed; found out by intuition
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Domesticated
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Tamed or adapted to live with and be useful to man
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Dubiously
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Done or said with doubt or skepticism
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Ebb
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To weaken, to decline
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Eloquent
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Vivid, forceful, and fluent speaker
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Equilibrium
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A state of balance between opposing forces
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Evince
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To show plainly; make clear
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Expediency
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Suitableness for achieving a purpose
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Exploit
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Daring act; bold deed
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Exquisi
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Highest quality; very intense, keen
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Famished
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Extremely hungry
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Fastidious
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Hard to please; very critical or particular
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Forbear
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To refrain; to keep yourself from doing something
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Forego
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To give something up; to do without
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Forlorn
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Lonely; neglected; deserted
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Formidable
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Causing dread, fear, or awe; hard to handle
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Futile
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Useless and hopeless
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Gaunt
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Thin and bony
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Harrying
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Tormenting or worrying
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Ignominiously
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Disgracefully; shamefully; humiliatedly
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Impending
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To be about to happen
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Imperative
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Not to be avoided; essential
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Imperiously
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Haughtily; masterfully
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Imploringly
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Beggingly; asking earnestly
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Incarnation
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Representing an ideal or principle
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Indescretion
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An unwise, not cautious, or heedless act
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Indispensable
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Absolutely necessary; essential
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Inevitably
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Not to be avoided; sure to happen; certain
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Inexorable
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Cannot be influenced by a person begging; unrelenting
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Innocuously
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Harmlessly
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Insidious
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More dangerous than seems evident; characterized by treachery or slyness
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Insubordination
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Disobedience; not submitting to authority
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Insular
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Detached; isolated
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Intimate
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To hint or imply
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Introspective
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Looking into one's own mind and feelings
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Latent
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Hidden; present but not active
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Leeward
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Side sheltered away from the wind
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Legion
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Very great number of persons or things
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Loathsome
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Detestable; disgusting
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Lugubriously
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Very sadly or mournfully, especially in an exaggerated way
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Lurking
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Hidden
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Malignant
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Filled with hate or malice; likely to cause death
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Malingerer
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Someone who pretends to be sick in order to escape duty
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Mandate
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An order or command
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Manifestly
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Plainly; obviously
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Ministrations
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Act of giving help or service
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Misdemeanor
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A minor offense
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Morose
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Gloomy; sullen
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Obdurate
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Stubborn
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Obscure
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Out of the way; remote
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Palpitant
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Throbbing, beating (as a heartbeat)
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Pandemonium
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Wild disorder or noise
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Paradox
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Statement that seems contradictory, but may be true
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Paroxysms
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Sudden outbursts
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Peculiarly
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Particularly, specially
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Pent
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Held in
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Perambulating
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Walking
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Peremptorily
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Undeniably
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Perpetual
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Lasting forever; constant; unceasing
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Pertinacity
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The attitude of holding firmly to a purpose or belief
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Pervade
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To spread throughout; to fill every part of
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Placatingly
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In a manner to calm the anger of or to appease
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Plethoric
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Overabundant; more than plentiful
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Plight
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A distressing situation
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Pompous
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Pretentious; self- important
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Populous
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Having many people; thickly populated
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Precipitate
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Hasty; sudden
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Preeminently
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In a manner surpassing others
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Primeval
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Belonging to the earliest times; primordial
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Promordial
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Of the earliest times; primeval; primitive
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Progeny
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Children; offspring
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Prone
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Lying face down OR inclined to do something
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Pursue
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To chase
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Quickened
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Revived; showing signs of life
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Rampant
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Going unchecked; widespread
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Recesses
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A space set back in a wall; a niche
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Recuperation
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Recovery; getting well again
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Remonstrance
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Objection; protest
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Rend
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To tear apart or split with violence
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Reproof
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Expression of disapproval; rebuke
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Repugnance
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Distastefulness; offensiveness
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Reside
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To live in or at a place, especially for a long time
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Resiliency
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Ability to recover quickly
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Resolutely
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Determinedly; in a manner firm in purpose
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Retarding
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Delaying, slowing something down
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Retrogression
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Opposite of progression; going back to a less advanced state
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Riddled
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Filled with many holes or punctures
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Salient
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Conspicuous; prominent; noticeable
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Sated
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Fully satisfied
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Score
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Set of twenty
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Slovenly
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Careless; untidy
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Solidarity
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Complete unity of purpose
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Soliloquized
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Talked to oneself
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Superfluous
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Unnecessary or excessive
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Swarthy
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Dusky color; dark skinned
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Taut
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Tightly stretched
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Tenderfoot
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A newcomer, unused to hardships
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Terse
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Free of superfluous words; concise; succinct
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Travail
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Very hard work
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Unpursued
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Not chased
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Unwieldy
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Hard to manage because of size or shape
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Unwittingly
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Not intentionally; not consciously
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Unwonted
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Not usual; not customary
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Vicarious
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Shared by imagined participation
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Vile
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Wretched; unpleasant
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Wantonness
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Maliciousness; recklessness
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Wax
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To grow; become increasingly
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Wizened
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Withered, shriveled
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Wont
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Accustomed; usual practice, habit
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Wraith
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A ghost
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Wrangled
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Quarreled noisily
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Wrath
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Intense or violent anger
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Zeal
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Intense enthusiasm
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