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55 Cards in this Set
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Entrepreneurial
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Has to do with organizing a business
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Anthologized
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Put in a collection of literary works
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Grist
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Grain, something for grinding
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Mercantile
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General store
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Predatory
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Preys upon other things
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Skate
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Wooden stake
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Retaliation
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Revenge
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Breach Ilium
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To accomplish a difficult task
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Alkali Plain
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Salt flats (area around Great Salt Lake)
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Grub Stake
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Supplies or funds furnished to a miner for a share of his discovery
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Prospecting
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Exploring for mineral deposits
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Lode
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Ore deposits
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Candor
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Freedom from prejudice, honesty
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Fistula
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Gross, puss-filled sores
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Brogan
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Ankle-high workboot
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Homesteading
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Living on a government land that they give to you for a few years
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Highway Man
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Sits at side of road & robs travelers
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Avarice
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Desire for money, greed
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Knickerbockers
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Loose-fitting, short pants gathered at the knees
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Ostentatiously
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Conspicuous
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Mange
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Skin disease, hair falls out
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Lithe
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Graceful, flexible
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Staple
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Something in constant demand/use
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Extrapolation
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to expand upon/direct
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Dray Wagon
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Strong, low cart or wagon with no sides
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Apothecary
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Pharmacy
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Animus
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Molevolent ill will, anger
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Corpulence
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Obesity
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Hollow-Flanked
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Thin, unhealthy looking
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Odyssey
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Adventurous journey
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Camaraderie
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Friendship, fellowship
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Pined
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Losing health/vigor from longing for something
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Speculator
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Someone who assumes a business risk
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Piety
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Being dutiful to religion
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Jockey Box
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Box for horsedriver to keep materials in (like a glove compartment)
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Circumvent
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Going around it
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Off Their Feed
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Not eating (because they're not feeling well)
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Caulking
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Filling cracks
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Flotsam
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Floating debree
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Sporting Lady
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Prostitute
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Plunger
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Reckless gambler
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Obstreperous
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unruly, resistant to control
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Lacerated
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deep, jagged cut
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Copious
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Plentiful amounts
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Poke
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Slang term for wallet or purse
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Hogleg
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Club or peice of wood
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Rattle Boned Paint
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Overly skinny horse
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Fissures
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Cracks
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Jettison
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Sacraficing cargo to lighten the load
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Superfluous
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exceeding what's necessary
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Malady
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Illness
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Supine
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Laying on your back
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Arroyo
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A deep gully covered by water
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Specter
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Ghost
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Pullet
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Young chicken
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