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29 Cards in this Set
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Ordered
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Transgress
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Overstep the bounds of, violate
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Rout
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A complete defeat
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Contentious
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Full of conflict
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Brazen
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Bronze
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Contingencies
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Unpredictable outcome of events
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Valor
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Courage and nobility
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Rite
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Ceremony
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Accosted
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Approach and speak first
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Betide
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Happen to
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Duly
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As is required
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Privy
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In on the secret
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Opportunely
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Fortunately
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Quarry
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The prey of a predator
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Impious
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Lacking respect for the gods
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Requite
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Repay
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Keel
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The ridge that runs along the underside of a boat that keeps it from sliding sideways in the water
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Scrupulous
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Careful to avoid doing the slightest harm or wrong
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Expiation
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Suffering that makes up for sin
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Havoc
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Unrestrained slaughter
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Hades, Acheron
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The god of the underworld, One of the four rivers that flow in his realm
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Persephone
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The wife of Hades and queen of the Underworld
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Lustral
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Purifying
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Divination
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The act of reading the future
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Glutted
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Saturated
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Impends
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Is about to happen
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Obstinacy
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Stubbornness
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Lamented
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Mourned
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Retribution
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Punishment
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