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24 Cards in this Set
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When the plague was RAMPANT on the Island Dr. Arrowsmith's wife died
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Going on unchecked, widespread
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the spies thought their meeting was a CLANDESTINE one, but a throng of the F.B.I agents gathered outside the building.
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secret, undercover
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Especial management committee was asked to investigate business ETHICS
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code of principal
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Orville Wright was criticized for his INSANE desire to fly
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foolish
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If I can get my parents to CONCUR, I'll join the Peace Corps.
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agree
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Stock in trade
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The goods, tools, and other requisites ease of a profession
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the bank teller's EGREGIOUS error was difficult to correct.
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remarkably bad
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we tried to ignore her ACRIMONIOUS comments, but that took considerable restraint.
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bitter
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DUPLICITY is the shock in trade of all adroit counterspies
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cunning, trickery
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Although it was a creative writing class, the teacher complained about the PAUCITY of talent there.
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scarcity, lack
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The soldiers were DISTRAUGHT to learn that their furloughs had been canceled.
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Mentally confused, crazed
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To pass the buck
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To evade, avoid responsibility
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The CULPRIT was caught with his fingers in the cookie jar.
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The guilty person
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television sleuths are INEXORABLE in their pursuit of lawbreakers.
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inflexible, unrelenting
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The confession was signed under DURESS, the attorney claimed.
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compulsion, force
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I suspect that my father will ADMONISH me for coming home late.
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to warn, to reprove
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Parking in front of a hydrant is a FLAGRANT violation of the city's laws.
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Outrageous, glaringly bad
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To take down a peg
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to take the conceit,importance out of a braggart, bragger.
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the border guards allows the doctor to cross the frontier with IMPUNITY.
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freedom from punishment
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it isn't easy to ELICIT answers from a sleepy class on Monday morning.
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to draw fourth
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Dentists appreciate patients who can TOLERATE pain.
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to put up with, to bear
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She hoped that we would not CONSTRUE her decision to run for office as a thirst for power.
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To make a deduction, to infer
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The doctor's PERNICIOUS rules failed to intimidate the leaders of the underground
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harmful, causing injury
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to lionize a person
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to make a big fuss over someone
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