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10 Cards in this Set
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repertoire
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list of things you can preform
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By the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions
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vapid
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dry, dull, boring, barren
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By the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions
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malevolent
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evil, wishing evil to happen to others
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Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom
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predilection
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preference
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The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb
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concession
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giving in, an agreement to give in on a point
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Jem stood in thought so long that dill made a mild concession
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foray
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raid, invasion into another person's territory
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Jem slapped the house with the palm of his hand and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful
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condescended
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to do something beneath your dignity, to stoop
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Jem condescended to take me to school the first day
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indigenous
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native
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The class murmered apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region
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illicitly
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illegitimately, illegally
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I had never deliberately learned to read, but somehow i had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers
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scrip stamps
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paper money issued for temporary emergency use as a substitute for real money during the Great Depression
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The Cunninghams never took anything they can't pay back-- no church baskets and no script stamps
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