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15 Cards in this Set
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Benevolence
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(n) desire to do good
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usurper
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(n) someone who came to power by force
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presentiments
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(n) bad feeling about the future
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royalists
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(n) supporters of the monarch
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despotic
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(adj) complete control over something
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infamy
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(n) extremely bad reputation
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requiem
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(n) a mass prayer, song, chant, etc to repect the dead
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Misanthropy
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(n) hatred or diatrust of humankind
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conscription
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(n) military draft
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labyrinth
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(n) a maze
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ironical
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(adj) mocking
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probity
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(n) honesty
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repugnance
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(n) disgust
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insinuate
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(v) to suggest or hint slyly
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inertia
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(adj) sluggish
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