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20 Cards in this Set
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Amenity |
That is pleasant or agreeable; attractive features, custom, etc. |
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Aperture |
An opening, gap, hole; orifice |
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Dissidence |
A difference of opinion; discontent |
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Epicurean |
Devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating taste; a person with discriminating tastes |
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Improvident |
Not thrifty; failing to plan ahead |
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Iniquity |
Wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act |
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Inviolable |
Sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken, injured, or profaned |
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Mutable |
Open to or capable of change, fickle |
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Nascent |
Just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence |
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Obeisance |
A deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage |
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Panegyric |
Formal or elaborate praise; a tribute |
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Pillory |
A device for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule; to expose to public contempt or ridicule |
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Pittance |
A woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion |
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Presage |
To foreshadow or point to a future event; a warning or indication of the future |
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Progeny |
Descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples |
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Promulgate |
To proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide |
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Rectitude |
Uprightness, righteousness, correctness |
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Restive |
Restless, hard to manage, balky |
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Seraphic |
Angelic, heavenly, celestial |
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Subsist |
To have existence; to remain alive, mange to make a living or maintain life;to persist or continue |
