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12 Cards in this Set
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leech
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(n) - a bloodsucking worm, or a person clinging to another with a view to gain
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avarice
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(n) - excessive greed for wealth or possesions
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rapacity
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(n) - excessive greed, or a dispostion to carry off.
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dissipate
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(v) - to waste or be intemperate; or to scatter or cause to disappear
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perpetrate
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(v) - to commit, carry through, or be guilty of
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pander
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(v) - to supply material or opportunity for vices, or to act as a go between in love intrigues
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orgy
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(n) - wild and riotous merrymaking, or an overindulgence in some activity
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defile
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(v) - to make dirty, tarnish, or pollute
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desecrate
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(v) - to profane, treat irreverently, or to violoate the sanctity of
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unregenerate
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(adj) - wicked, sinful, unrepentant
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sloth
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laziness, idleness or sluggishness
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shrew
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(n) - a quarrelsome, scolding, nagging woman
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