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25 Cards in this Set
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Aberration
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Something that is unusual
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Aggrandize
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To make greater, to increase
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Ambivalent
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To have mixed feelings, opposing feelings about something
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Anathema
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Something hated or shunned
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Arbitrate
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To judge or decide a dispute
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Archipelago
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Group of islands
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Atrocity
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Something apaulling, savage, cruel
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Chancery
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Place, or office where records are kept
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Corollary
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Something we can infer; a proposition made from another proposition
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Crescendo
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To build, to appoint a great intensity
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Fiat
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To rule by arbitrary authority
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Gaffe
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A social blunder
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Jingo
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A person who supports a very belligerent policy
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Pandemic
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Epidemic that spreads over a wide area
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Philander
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To cheat on one's spouse
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Philanthropy
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Charitable aid
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Pragmatic
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Practical
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Proletariat
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The poorest class of working people who have no hope for improvement
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Rapprochement
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Re-establishing cordial, friendly relations
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Referendum
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Allowing public to vote on law; public support for issues
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Restitution
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To compensate for loss or damage
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Sultry
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Hot and very humid; aroused desire or passion
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Tumultuous
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Noise and disorderly
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Vehement
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To be forceful or intense in expressing an opnion
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Vestige
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A trace or sign of something that no longer exist
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