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10 Cards in this Set
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rift - noun
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an opening or break caused by a split
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after a huge tsunami conquering the city of honolulu, giant _____ appeared all over the sidewalks
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rifts
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farraginous (pho-ra-gin-us) - adj
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varied with no fixed arrangement
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when i was in japan - trying to score a new camera - i went to the lost & found in the subway station. told them i lost my camera, and they showed me a box fill with a _______ set of cameras -- different brands and sizes.
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farraginous
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antediluvian (an-tii-dilu-vian) - adj
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super old / antique
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wow, your great-great-great-great-grandpa's house is filled with so many _______ belongings - like that steering wheel from the titanic, or the bones of that t-rex
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antediluvian
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macabre (muh - ka - brah) - adj [sounds like cobra / imagine a cobra in front of you]
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horrific / gastly
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as i walked down the stale tunnel, long as a football field, a _______ set of ______ feelings raced through my mind.
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farraginous - macabre
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taciturn (tas - i - turn) - adj
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not inclined to talk
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i myself am usually a _____ person - where I am often the one that remains quiet during discussion sections at yale
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taciturn
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