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60 Cards in this Set
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ADAPT
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to adjust or change to suit conditions
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ATTEST
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to bear witness, affairm to be true or genuine
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DOVETAIL
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to fit togetjer exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; a carpentry figure resembling a dovetail
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ENORMITY
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the quality or exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size; immensity
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FALTER
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to hesitate, stumble,lose courage;to speak hesitatingly;to lose drive, weaken,decline
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FOREBODING
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a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, ominous
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FORLORN
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totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely;wretched or pitiful;almost hopeless
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HAUGHTY
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chilingly proud and scournful
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IMPEDIMENT
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a physical defect; hindreance,obsticle
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IMPERATIVE
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necessary, urgent; aform of a verb expressing a command;that which is necessary or required
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LOITER
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to linger in an aimless way; hang around, dawdle, tarry
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MALINGER
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to pretend illness, to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job
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PITHY
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short but full of meaning and point
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PLUNDER
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to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; property stolen by force
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SIMPER
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to smile or speak in a silly, forced way
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STEADFAST
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firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing
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VAUNTED
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much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way
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VILIFY
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to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously
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WAIF
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a person without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stay bit
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WRY
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twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous
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AMPLIFY
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to make stronger, larger, greater, louder,or the like
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ARMISTICE
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a temporary peace, halt in fighting
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ARROGANT
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haughty, too convinced of one's own importance
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BLAND
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gentle, soothing,mild; lacking interest and taste
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DISCLAIM
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to deny interest in or connection with; to give up all claim to
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EPOCH
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a distinct period of time, era, age
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ESTRANGE
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to drift apart or become unfriendly; to cause such a seperation; to remove or keep at a distance
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GRATIFY
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to please, satistify; to indulge or humor
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INFINITE
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excedingly great, inexhaustible, without limit, endless; preceeded by an incalcuable number, infinity,God
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IRASCIBLE
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easily made angry, hot tempered
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KINDRED
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a person's relatives; related by blood; like similar
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NAIVE
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innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience
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NICHE
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a decorative recess in a wall, a suitable place or position for a person or thing
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OBLITERATION
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to blot out completely, destroy utterly
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RAMSHACKLE
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appearing ready to collaspe, loose, and shacky
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RANSACK
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to search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder
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ROTE
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unthinking and routine, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something
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SOLVENT
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able to meet one's financial obligations; having the power to disolve other substances, something that solves, explains, eliminates, or softens
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TEDIOUS
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long and tiresome
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VENDOR
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a person who sells something
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ABYSS
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a deep bottemless pit
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BEFALL
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to happen, to occur
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CRUCIAL
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of supreme importance, decisive, critical
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DREGS
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the last remaining part; the part of least worth
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EMBODY
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to give form to; to incorporate; include; to personify
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EXASPERATE
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to irratate , annoy, or anger
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FIASCO
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the complete collaspe or failure of a project
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GARNISH
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to adorn or decorate, especially food
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HERITAGE
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an inheritance; a birthright
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INERT
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lifeless, unable to move or act; slow, inactive
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MERCENARY
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acting or working for self-gain; a hired soldier, soldier of fortune
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NEGLIGENT
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marked by careless or indifference; failing to do what should be done
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OBLIVION
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forgetfulness, disregard; a state of being forgotten; an amnesty, general pardon
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OPUS
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an impressive piece of work, especially a musical composition
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PALLID
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pale, lacking color, weak, lifeless
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PARABLE
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a short narritive designed to teach a moral lesson
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RATIONAL
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based on reasoning; able to make use of reason; sensible; reasonable
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RECIPROCAL
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shared; involving give and take between two people or things; working in both directions; gives 1
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STRICTURE
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a limitation or restriction; a criticism; a narrowing of a passage in the body
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VENEER
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a thin outer layer, a surface appearance or decoration; to cover with a thin layer
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