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15 Cards in this Set
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Achilles' heel
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weakness
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stentorian
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very loud, sonorous
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mnemonic
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assisting memory
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fathom
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understand, figure out, penetrate the meaning of
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serendipity
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ability to amke lucky discoveries by chance or accident
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desultory
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random, unmethodical, aimless, haphazard
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pariah
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social outcast, persona non grata
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tawdry
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showy and cheap; gaudy
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pecuniary
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relating to money; monetary
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impecunious
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having little or no money, poor; indigent
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monarch
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ruler of person who holds a dominant positioon; king, queen, emperor, or sultan
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anarchy
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absence of goverment or law; confusion, disorder
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hierarchy
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person of things arranged in a graded series of rank
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matriarch
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woman who rules a family
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patriarch
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father of leader of family; dignified old man
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