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35 Cards in this Set
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a room for cleaning and storing dishes and cooking utensils for doing messy kitchen work
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scullery
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to walk with short steps in a prim affected manner
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mincing
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oppressive power
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tyranny
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expressing dissent
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dissentients
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positive, active and typically mutual hatred of ill will
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enmity
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having paramount rank, dignity or importance
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pre-eminent
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to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail
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expounded
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a small wood with undergrowth
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spinney
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not capable of being altered or changed
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unalterable
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done, given, or allowed unwillingly, reluctantly , or sparingly
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grudging
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something that resembles a biological parasite independence on something else for existence or support without making auseful or adequte return
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parasitical
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not easily subdued, remedied, or removed
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obstinate
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having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning
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cryptic
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capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled
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tractable
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impossible to repress, restrain, or control
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irrepressible
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marked with or charaterized by disgrace of shame
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ignominious
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following or occurring after death
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posthumously
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a purpose of motivation alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs
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pretext
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a collector of taxes or tribute
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publican
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easily understood or recognized by the mind
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manifestly
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a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking
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factions
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the quality of forceful or persuasive expressiveness
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eloquence
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wretched, squalid
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sordid
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able to speak
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articulate
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to take out of the grave or tomb
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disinterred
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involving or characterized by hard or toilsome effort
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laborious
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fit for or used for the frowing of crops
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arable
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a state of resting after exertion or strain
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repose
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a staff on which a flag is hoisted
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flagstaff
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an instance of malignant or malicious behavior or nature
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malignity
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the killing of an infant
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infanticide
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to surrender often after negotiations of terms
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capitulated
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to be astonished
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stupefied
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involving, according with, or considered with respect to specific categories
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categorically
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look, expression
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countenance
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