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27 Cards in this Set
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restive
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unable to keep still or silent. Difficult to control. Impatient.
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Anlage
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A genetic predisposition to a given trait or personality characteristic.
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Truculence
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eager or quick to argue or fight
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Anlage
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A genetic predisposition to a given trait or personality characteristic.
A fundamental principle; the foundation for a future development |
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Lucent
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glowing with or giving off light
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Querulously
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complaining in a whining manner
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Petulant
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childish/sulky
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Proprietor
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owner of a business or property
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Zygote
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initial cell formed when a new organism is produced
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Ostracism
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being expelled from a city or region. being excluded from a group of people.
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Specter
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ghost or something widely feared
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Morosely
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sullen. ill-tempered
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Imperiously
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assuming power or authority without justification. arrogant and domineering.
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Feral
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in a wild state.
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Sated
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to satisfy (a desire or an appetite)
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Exhortation
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empathetically urging someone to do something
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Shoat
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a young pig
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Titular
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holding a formal position or title without authority
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Supplication
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to ask or beg for something humbly.
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Lecherously
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having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire
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Lithely
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thin, supple, and graceful
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Pellagra
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deficiency disease often caused by eating too much corn. Lack of nicotinic acid
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Nebulous
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hazy; in the form of a cloud or haze
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Fallow
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farmland plowed and left unsown to restore fertility; part of crop rotation
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Communism
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property publicly owned. People work and are paid according to ability and needs.
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Socialism
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means of production, distribution, and exchange should be ruled by the government
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Capitalism
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countries trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
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