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53 Cards in this Set

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To give up throne voluntarily

Abdicate

A person who attacks first

Aggressor

A list of books

Catalogue

A person appointed by parties to settle the disputes between them

Arbirator

Celebration of a hundredth year, once a century

Centenary

Persons living in the same age

Contemporary

A person who really believes whatever is told to him

Credulous

A man devoid of any feeling and sympathy

Callous

A man with a broad international outlook

Cosmopolitan

Control

Curb

To go from bad to worse

Deteriorate

A political system in which a state is ruled by one person

Monarchy

A game which neither party wins

Draw

Free somebody from blame or guilt; free somebody from am obligation

Exonerate

Destroy or get rid of something completely; root out an evil or bad practice.

Eradicate

A person difficult to please

Fastidious

A person who believes that all events are pre-determined

Fatalist

A party which doesn't carry any salary

Honorary

Intense aggression or anger; state of antagonism

Hostility

Not applicable

Irrelevant

That which cannot be believed

Incredible

That which cannot be conquered

Invincible

Something that is essential and cannot be combined dispensed

Indispensable

That which cannot be avoided

Inevitable

That which cannot be avoided

Irrevocable

That which is considered wrong or unacceptable by prevailing social standards

Illicit

Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid

Insoluble

Somebody or something worth the same name as somebody or something else

Namesake

A person with an evil reputation

Notorious

One who is new to a trade or profession

Novice

Words which have the same meaning

Synonyms

A pardonable offense

Venial

Somebody who works or serves only for personal profit

Mercenary

A person who hates women

Misogynist

A person who knows everything

Omniscient

A supposed cure for all diseases or problems

Panacea

Fit for drinking

Potable

Allegory, fable

Parable

Following, chase

Pursuit

Take legal action against somebody

Prosecute

Inclined to fight or be aggressive

Pugnacity

A person who helps others, especially those who are poor and in trouble

Philanthropist

The time of a society by its wealthiest people

Plutocracy

Sleepwalking

Somnambulism

A person who is unaffected by emotions

Stoic

A drug or other substance that induces sleep

Soporific

Somebody who loans money to other people and charges then exorbitant or unlawful interest on it

Userer

A person who seizes something without the right to do so

Usurper

Corresponding word for translation

Verbatim

Somebody who is excessively concerned with his or her own health

Valetudinarian

Two counties, the borders of which touch each other

Contiguous

Something which is effective from some past time

Retrospective

That which cannot be taken back

Inexorable