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35 Cards in this Set
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Apiary |
A place where bees are kept |
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Aviary |
A place where birds are kept |
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Badger |
To tease, annoy, or nag |
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Halcyon |
Calm, peaceful |
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Lionize |
Treat as highly important |
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Menagerie |
A place where animals are kept and trained; a collection of wild animals |
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Molt |
Shed feathers, skin, or hair |
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Ornithology |
The study of birds |
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Astringent |
Substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood |
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Astringent |
Severe; stern; causing contraction |
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Benign |
Not dangerous (ant: malignant); gentle or kindly |
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Convalesce |
Recover health after illness; recuperate |
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Convalescent |
A person recovering from a sickness |
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Fester |
Form pus; rankle; rot; putrefy |
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Hypochondriac |
one who is morbidly anxious about personal health, or suffers from an imaginary illness |
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Immunity |
Resistance to a disease; Freedom (from an obligation) |
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Immunize |
Make immune (resistance to a disease) |
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Parasite |
Animal, person, or plant living off of others |
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Parasitic |
Living at the expanse of others; Sponging |
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Parrot |
To repeat mechanically |
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Scavenger |
Animal or person removing refuse, decay, ect. |
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Antidote |
remedy for a poison or an evil` |
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Lesion |
Injury; hurt |
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Malignant |
Threatening to cause death (ant. benign); very evil |
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Morbid |
Gruesome; having to do with disease |
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Pestilential |
Morally harmful; pertaining to a pestilence (plague) |
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Regimen |
Set of rules, esp. to improve health |
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Salubrious |
Healthful |
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Sebaceous |
Greasy; secreting sebrum |
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Therapeutic |
Curative |
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Toxic |
Poisonous |
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Unguent |
Salve; ointment |
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Virulent |
Extremely poisonous; deadly; venomous; very bitter |
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Viral |
Caused by a virus |
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Virus |
Disease causing substance to small to be seen through a microscope; corruptive force |
