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46 Cards in this Set
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ailment
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slight sickness
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noun
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airy
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delicate, ethereal
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adjective
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akin
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of similar nature or qualities
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adjective
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alabaster
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a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
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noun
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alacrity
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cheerful willingness.
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noun
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albeit
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even though.
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conjection
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albino
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a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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noun
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album
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a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
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noun
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alchemy
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chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
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noun
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alcohol
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a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
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noun
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alcoholism
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a condition resulting from inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
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noun
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alcove
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a covered recess connected with or at the side of a large room.
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noun
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alder
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any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
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noun
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alderman
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a member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
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noun
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aldermanship
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the dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
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noun
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alias
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an assumed name.
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noun
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alien
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one who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
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noun
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alienable
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capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
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adjective
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alienate
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to cause to turn away.
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verb
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alienation
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estrangement
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noun
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aliment
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that which nurishes.
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noun
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alkali
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anything that will neutralize an acid, as linme, magnesia, ect.
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noun
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allay
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to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
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verb
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allege
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to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
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verb
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allegory
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the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
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noun
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alleviate
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to make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
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verb
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alley
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a narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
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noun
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alliance
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any combination or union for some common purpose.
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noun
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allot
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to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
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verb
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allotment
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portion.
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noun
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allude
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to refere incidentally, or by suggestion.
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verb
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allusion
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an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
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noun
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alluvion
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flood
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noun
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ally
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a person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
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noun
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almanac
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a series of tables giving the days of the week together with cetain astronomical information.
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noun
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aloof
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not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
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adverb
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altar
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a raised place or structure which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
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noun
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alter
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to make change in.
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verb
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alteration
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change or modification.
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noun
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altercate
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to contend angrily or zealously in words.
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verb
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alternate
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one chosen to act in the place of another, in the case of absence or incapacity of that other.
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noun.
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alternative
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Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
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noun
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altitude
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Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
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noun
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alto
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the lowest or deepest female voice or part.
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noun
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altruism
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benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
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noun
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altruist
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one who advocates or practice altruism.
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noun
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