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32 Cards in this Set
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Ali Baba |
A fictional character from medieval Arabic literatrue |
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Almshouses |
Charitable housing providing to enable people |
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Apparition |
Another word to describe a ghost |
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Benevolence |
A disposition to do good deeds |
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Bob |
Slang word for shilling |
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Christmas Pudding |
A traditional English desert served on Christmas |
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Covetous |
An intense desire for wealth |
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Dowry |
This refers to money, goods or estate that a wife would bring to her husband |
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Executor |
Person responsible for wealth of someone who is dead |
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Farthing, Shilling, Crown, Sixpence |
Units of currency in England |
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Fettered |
Chain or shackle placed around feet |
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Flamboyant |
A showy or dashing display |
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Forbearance |
Forgiveness |
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Girded |
Encircled with a flexible band or a chain |
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Humbug |
Referring to nonsense or rubbish |
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Incessant |
Continuing without interuption |
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"Jack Robinson" |
Short span of time |
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Millinery |
People who make and sew hats |
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Morose |
Gloomy |
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Odious |
This word means deserving of hatred |
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Ogre |
Hideous giant from fantasy tales |
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Palpable |
Capable of being touched or felt |
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Phantom |
A ghost or being without a body |
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Precepts |
A rule |
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Poor Law and Union Workhouses |
A system of regional workhouses |
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Reclamation |
Act of getting something back |
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Robinson Crusoe |
A book written in 1719 by Daniel Defoe |
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Situation |
Job or form of employment |
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Specter |
Another word for a ghost |
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Squalling |
A violent wind |
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"Straight from the bakers" |
Little people have ovens at this time, so you would have to pay someone to bake what you need baked |
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Treadmill |
A Victorian torture device |
