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50 Cards in this Set
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Abbicated
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gave up one's responsibilities, steps down from one's position.
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Abolish
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get rid of
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Absolved
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get rid of
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Accomidation
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something that meets someone's needs
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Acquiesce
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to give in to someone or something, to go along with something, to accept.
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Alter
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to change
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Annihilation
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groupings, combinations, associations.
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Appropriations
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when a law making body gives money to a state, a group, an agency or when someone takes something for oneself.
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Arbitrary
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something done completely by individual choice than by reason or by law.
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Assent
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to agree a proposal, to go along with something.
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Barbarous
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being violently destructive and cruel.
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Boundary
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borders, lines separating two areas
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Brethren
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Religious term for brother
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Candid
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Honest, frank
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Conjured
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to bring something about or something up as if by magic.
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Consanguinuity
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related by blood or common ancestors, closely related or linked.
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Convulsions
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violent acts of turmoil, agitation, shaking things up.
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Denounces
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disapproves of, speaks out against
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Depository
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Put something away for safe keeping
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Dissolutions
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meltings, undoings, endings of something
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Despotism
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absolute power by one ruler
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Disavowed
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refused to recognized, denied,
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Disposed
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is apt to, is likely to
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Domestic
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having to do with one's home or one's homeland or country.
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Emigration
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leaving one's country to settle in a new country or land
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Endeabored
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tried or attempted to do something
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Endowed
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a great given to someone
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Evinces
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to show or demonstrate something clearly
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Formidable
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very strong, demanding, forbidding
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Impel
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move, propel
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Inestimable
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invaluable, to great to be counted or estimated
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Insurrection
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the act of revolting against authority
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Kindred
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a group of people sharing the same ancestors, people who feel or think the same or have similar views.
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Magnamity
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the act of being generous
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Naturalization
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the process of granting full citizenship to someone
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Perfidy
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unfaithfulness, not being trustworthy
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Petition
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To ask for, to apeal to
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Plundered
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to take wrongfully, to steal or rob
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Province
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an area of land or an area or topic of interest
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Prudence
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careful management
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Rectitude
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the quality of being correct or right
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Redress
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to make up for an injury or damage done
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Relinquish
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to give up something
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Render
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to give or make available, to provide
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Suffrance
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putting up with pain, suffering
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Tenure
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holding something in one's possession
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Transient
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passing in time, temporary
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Unalienable
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not to be given or taken away
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Usurpations
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an unlawful seizing of authority or power
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Unwarrantable
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having no justification or reason for happening
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