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30 Cards in this Set
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Permit
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An official document that allows you to do something or go somewhere.
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Sole
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The bottom part of a foot which touches the ground when you stand or walk, or the bottom part of a shoe which touches the ground, usually not including the heel.
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Mourner
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A person at a funeral.
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Bargain
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An agreement between two people or groups in which each promises to do something in exchange for something else.
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Bestow
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To give something as an honour or present.
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Bleak
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If weather or a place is bleak, it is cold, empty and not welcoming or attractive.
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Dismal
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Sad and without hope.
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To deceive
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To persuade someone that something false is the truth; to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage; to trick.
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Bedlam
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A noisy situation with no order.
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Desirable
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Worth having and wanted by most people.
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Abundance
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When there is more than enough of something.
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Decrease
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A reduction.
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Convenient
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Suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty.
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Melancholy
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Sadness which lasts for a long period of time, often without any obvious reason.
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To relinquish
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To give up something such as a responsibility or claim.
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Recumbent
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Lying down.
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Grasp
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When you hold onto someone or something.
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To clasp
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To hold someone or something firmly in your hands or arms.
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Conscious
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Awake, thinking and knowing what is happening around you.
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Odour
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A smell, often one that is unpleasant.
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To tremble
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To shake slightly, usually because you are cold, frightened, or very emotional.
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Cheek
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The soft part of your face which is below your eye and between your mouth and ear.
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Shaggy
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Having or covered with long, rough and untidy hair, or (of hair) long, rough and untidy.
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Crisp
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Describes cooked foods, such as pastry and biscuits, that are well cooked so that they are just dry and hard enough.
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Solitary
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A solitary person or thing is the only person or thing in a place.
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Thoroughfare
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A main road for public use or a passage through somewhere.
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Utterance
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Something that someone says.
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Rigid
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Stiff or fixed; not able to be bent, moved, changed or persuaded.
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Shutters
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The part of a camera which opens temporarily to allow light to reach the film when a photograph is being taken.
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To pant
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To breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth, usually because you have been doing something very energetic.
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