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89 Cards in this Set
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Beholden
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Obligated, indebted
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Behoove
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be necessary or proper for; be incumbent upon
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Bellicose
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Warlike, pugnacious
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Bequalth
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leave to someone by the power of a will
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Besmirch
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Soil, Defile
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Billious
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ill humored
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Bivouac
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temperary encampment
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Blandish
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cajole, coax with flattery
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Blase
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bored with pleasure or dissipation
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Blighted
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suffering from a disease
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Bluff
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ADJ. rough but good-natured
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boon
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Blessing, benefit
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bowlderize
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expurgate
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Brandish
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v. wave around, flourish
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brazen
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insolent, diresepectful
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breadth
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width; extent
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brevity
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conciseness
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brindled
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tawny or grayish
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broach
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introduce, open up
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brocade
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rich figured fabric
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brook
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v. tolerate, endure
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brusque
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blunt
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bucolic
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rusty, pastoral
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buffet
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v. slap, batter, knock about
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bullion
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gold and silver in the form of bars
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burgeon
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v. grow forth
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burnish
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make shiney byr ubbing
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cabal
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group secretly united
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cacophonous
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inhamonious
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cadaverous
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like a corpse
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cadge
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v. beg, mooch
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callous
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hardened
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canard
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false or unfounded story
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cant
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insincere expresion of piety
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cantakerous
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irritable
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canter
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slow gallop
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canto
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division of a long poem
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canvass
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determine or seek opinions
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capillary
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having a very fine bore
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culpitulate
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surrender
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capricious
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unpredictable
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captious
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fault finding
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carapace
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shell covering back
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careen
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lurch, sway from side to side
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carillion
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set of bells capable of being played
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castigation
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punishment, survere criticism
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caustic
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burning, sarcastically biting
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cessation
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stoppage
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chaff
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worthless products of an endevour
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chaffing
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bantering, joking
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champion
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support milantly
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charlatan
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quack, pretender of knowledge
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chase
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ornament a metal
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cherubic
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angelic
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chicanery
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trickery deception
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chide
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scold
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chimerical
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fantastically improbable
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choleric
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hot-tempered
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chortle
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v. chuckle with delight
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cipher
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nonentity, worthless person or thing
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clamber
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climb by crawling
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clandestine
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secret
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clarion
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shrill, trumpetlike sound
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clavicale
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collerbone
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cleft
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split
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clime
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region, climate
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cloying
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adj. distasteful
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coagulate
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thicken, congeal, clot
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coalesce
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combine, fuse
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coddle
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treaty gently
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cogent
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convincing
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cognate
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related linguistically
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cohorts
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armed band
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coiffure
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hairstyle
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collation
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N. light meal
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colloquial
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pertaining to conversational speech
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colloquy
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informal discusion
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comeuppance
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rebuke
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comity
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courtesy, civility
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compendium
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v. brief
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complaisant
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trying to please, overly polite
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compliant
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yielding
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comport
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v. bear one's self
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condign
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appropriate
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condone
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overlook, forgive
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conflaration
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great fire
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conflate
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meld or fusse
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congeal
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free, goagulatate
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conjudal
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pertaining to marriage
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