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30 Cards in this Set
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adherents
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someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas
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appease
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pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands
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approbation
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approval or praise
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arduous
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involving or requiring strenuous effort
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atonement
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reparation for a wrong or injury
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audacity
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the willingness to take bold risks
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benevolent
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well meaning and kindly
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blaspheme
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speak irreverently about God or sacred things
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calamity
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an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress
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callow
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inexperienced and immature
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capricious
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given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior
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communal
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shared by all members of a community; for common use
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contemptible
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deserving contempt; despicable
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copiously
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abundant in supply or quantity
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deft
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neatly skillful and quick in one's movements
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degenerate
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having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline
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derisive
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expressing contempt or ridicule
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desecrated
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treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect; violate
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desolate
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deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness
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despair
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the complete loss or absence of hope
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discern
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perceive or recognize
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discordant
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disagreeing or incongruous
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dispatched
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send off to a destination or for a purpose
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enthralled
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To hold spellbound; captivate
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esoteric
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understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite
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exacting
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rigid or severe in demands or requirements: an exacting teacher
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expedient
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tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances
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feign
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to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of
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fermenting
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omething, such as a yeast, bacterium, mold, or enzyme, that causes fermentation
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ferociously
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savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel
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