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50 Cards in this Set
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What is Saga?
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Heroic Story
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What is Belated?
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Late, Delayed
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What is Decrepit?
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Broken down, Worn out
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What is Imperturbable?
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Calm, Steady, Serene
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What is Vacillate?
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Hesitate, Fluctuate
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What is Awesome?
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Inspiring Terror, Weird
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What is Debris?
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Ruins, Fragments
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What is Dispersed?
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Scattered, Spread, Broken up
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What is eruption
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Bursting Out
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What is Puny?
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Weak, Unimportant
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What is Abhor?
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To detest, To despise
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What is Absurd?
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Ridiculous
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What is Bigot?
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A person who is intolerant of other people of ideas
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What is Contemptuous?
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Expressing a feeling that something is worthless
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What is Universal?
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Present Everywhere
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What is Anthropologist?
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An expert in the study of the races, beliefs, customs, etc. of mankind
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What is an artifact?
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An object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature
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What is Bizarre?
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Odd, Peculiar, Strange, Weird
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What is a fetish?
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An object that is thought to have magic powers
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What is Inanimate?
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Lifeless
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What is Imperative?
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Urgent, Necessary, Compulsory
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What is Prohibition?
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The act of forbidding cerain behavior
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What is imprudent?
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Unwise, Not Careful
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What is Taboo?
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Forbidden by custon or relgious practice
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What is Taint
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Contamination, undesirable substance that spoils something
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What is Flagarnt?
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Outrageous, Glaringly Bad
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What is Admonish?
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To Warn, To Reprove
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What is Duress?
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Compulsion, Force
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What is Culprit?
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The guilty person
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What is Inexorable?
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Inflexible, unrelenting
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What is an egotist?
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A vain, Conceited person
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What is Humility?
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Humbleness, modesty, meekness
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What is Pugnent?
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Sharply stimulating, Biting
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What is Inveterate?
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Habitual, Firmly established
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What is Adamant?
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Unyielding, Inflexible
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What is Acute?
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Sharp, Keen, Severe
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What is Gist?
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Essence, Main Point
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What is Transient?
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Passing, Short-Lived, Fleeting
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What is Terse?
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Concise, Brief, Compact
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What is Cogent?
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Forceful, Convincing, Persuasive
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What is Constrict?
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Limit, Bind, Squeeze
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What is a Prodigy?
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Marvel, Phenomenon
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What is bereft?
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Deprived of
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What is Falter?
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Stumble, Hesitate, Waver
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What is Exulation?
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Triumphant Joy
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What is Pinnacle?
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Reach the Highest Point
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What is Array?
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Arrangment, System
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What is Obscure?
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Unknown, Lowly, Unclear
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What is Ardent?
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Passionate, Eager
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What is Culminate?
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Summit, Peak, Top, Crown
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