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29 Cards in this Set
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Front (Term) the grippe |
Back (Definition) flu |
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Front (Term) ostracize |
Back (Definition) to exclude from a group |
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Front (Term) chiffonier |
Back (Definition) dressed with drawers and a mirror |
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inane |
lacking sense or significance; empty |
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rostrum |
a raised platform for public speaking; a dais |
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sadist |
someone who enjoys being cruel; a tormentor |
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hound's tooth |
fabric for clothing with a small checkered design |
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"chew the rag" "chew the fat" |
talk small talk with; "shoot the breeze" |
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muffler |
scarf |
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sexy |
obsessed with sex; sex crazed; lustful; horny |
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rile |
to agitate; to make angry |
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racket |
a loud noise OR a rip-off or scam that earns money |
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"to give the time to" |
to have sex with |
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tiff |
a petty quarrel or small fit of anger |
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Canasta |
a card game |
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unscrupulous |
unprincipled; lacking morals or a conscience |
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Gladstones |
traveling bags; suitcases; valises |
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lousy |
a poor quality; inferior OR loaded with |
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incognito |
in disguise |
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highball |
a light alcoholic drink; a cocktail |
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yellow |
cowardly |
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clavichord |
early form of the piano |
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rubberneck |
person who slows does to look at an accident or crime scene |
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bourgeois |
belonging to the middle class; materialistic, smug, conventional |
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swanky |
luxurious; fancy |
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the Lunts |
a famous husband and wife acting team of the 1930s and 1940s |
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blaśe |
jaded and bored with life |
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flit |
male homosexual (flitty-gay) |
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Robert Burns |
Scottish poet (1759-1796) whose poem "Coming Through the Rye" was turned into a song that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s |
