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100 Cards in this Set

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Acropolis
The upper fortified part of an Ancient Greek city
Anarchy
Absence of government, a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of government
Beseech
To beg for urgently or anxiously
Consent
To give assent or approval; agree
Effulgent
Radiantly splendid: brilliant
Elegiac
Expressing sorrow often for something now past
Expatiate
To love about freely or at will; wander
Filch
To appropriate furtively or casually
Intuitive
Known or perceived by intuition
Labyrinth
A place constructed by intricate passageways ways. MAZE
Metaphysical
Of or relating to the transcendent or to reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses. SUPERNATURAL
Mortify
To subdue or deaden especially by abstinence or self-inflicting pain
Ominous
Being or exhibiting an omen
Penitence
Quality or state of expressing sorrow for sins or faults
Pilgrimage
A journey of a pilgrim
Pretext
A purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs
Progeny
A descendants, children
Prowess
Distinguishing bravery
Sovereignty
Supreme power especially over a body politic
Treble
The highest voice part in a harmonic music
Analogy
A similarity between like features of two things, on which comparisons may be based
Braggart
A person who does a lot of bragging
Brazen
Shameless or impudent
Celestial
Pertaining to the sky or visible heaven
Comrade
A person who shares in ones activities or occupations
Connoisseur
A person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in and art
Drivel
Saliva flowing from the mouth or mucus from the nose
Enervate
To deprive or force or strength
Exodus
A going out; a departure or emigration, usually large amount of people
Jeer
To speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudley
Kowtow
To act in obsequious manner; show servile deference
Martyr
A person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion
Nemesis
An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome
Nuptial
Pertaining to marriage or the marriage ceremony
Orb
A sphere or globe
Panoplies
A complete suit of armor
Promulgate
To make known by open declaration; publish
Refrain
To abstain from an impulse to say or do something
Resolve
To come to a definite or earnest decision about
Sanctity
Holiness, saintliness or godliness; A SACRED THING
Chastise
To inflect punishment on especially by whipping
Conceit
An excessively favorable opinion of ones own ability
Dissoluble
Capable of being dissolved
Doctrine
A particulate principle position or policy taught or advocated ad in a religion or government
Enmity
A feeling or condition of hostility
Enumerate
To mention separately as if in counting, name one by one
Epithet
Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe and actual or attributed quality
Essence
The basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significance individual feature or features
Ether
One of a class of compounds in which two organic groups are attached directly to an energy atom
Fallacy
A deceptive, misleading or false notion, belief
Gape
To state with open mouth as in wonder
Hemlock
A poisonous plant
Indolent
Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion
Libation
Pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity
Parricide
The act of killing ones father, mother, and other close relatives
Perish
To die or be destroyed through violent privation
Pious
Having or showing dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligation
Sophist
A person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly
Tunic
A how like outer garment with or without sleeves and sometimes belted
Wanton
Done, shown, used
Battalion
A ground force of unit composed of a headquarters and two or more companies or similar units
Bewilder
To confuse or puzzle completely; perplexed
Citadel
A fortress that commands a city and is used i the control of the inhabitants
Encompass
To form a circle about, surround
Gratitude
The quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful
Greave
A piece of plate armor fort eg leg between the knee and ankle
Lamenation
The act of expressing grief
Marshal
The military officer of the highest rank
Mull
To study or ruminate, ponder
Pell-mell
In disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner
Plunder
To rob of goods or valuables by open force as in war
Portent
An indication or omen of something about the happen
Revile
To assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language
Scabbard
A sheath for a sword or the like
Sinew
A tendon
Skulk
To lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason
Spate
Sudden, almost overwhelming
Summkn
A call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal
Tumult
Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance
Vaunt
To speak vaingloriously of; BOAST
Audacious
Intrepidly DARING
Cobalt
A silver-white metallic element
Conspicuous
Easily seen or noticed
Corselet
A piece of armor covering the trunk
Cumber
To hinder or hamper
Glade
An open space in a forest
Goad
A stick with a pointed or electrically charged end
Haughty
Disdainfully proud
Havoc
Great destruction or devastation
Hew
To strike forcibly with an ax
Mare
A female horse
Pitiless
Devoid of pity
Ponder
To consider something deeply and thoroughly
Preeminently
Eminent above or before the others
Quiver
To shake with a slight but rapid motion
Scion
A descendant
Supplicate
To pray humbly, make humbly; make humble or earnest
Tawny
Of a darkish yellowish or dull
Thicket
A thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees
Wit
A keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure