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20 Cards in this Set
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Tatting
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making handmade lace by looping and knotting a single strand of thread
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Sacheted
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scented by powdered perfume
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Impudent
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rude; disrespectful
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Construed
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interpreted or translated
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Baffles
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make helplessly puzzled
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Staid
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reserved; grave; sober
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Callow
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immature; inexperienced
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Oafish
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acing clumsily or stupid
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Petulant
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unreasonable irritable; peevish
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Cineast
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person who watches films
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Prima Facie
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at first sight
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Comportment
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bearing; deportment
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Exurbs
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community of exclusive homes usually owned by executives
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Prurient
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obsessively intrested in matters of sexual nature
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Insurrection
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an act of open revolt against the governement
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Pummel
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to beat
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Despotic
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a tyrant; an autocratic ruler
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Miry
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having deep, slimy soil or mud
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Supplant
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to take the place of
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Squalid
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having a dirty or wretched apperance
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