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45 Cards in this Set
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precluded
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prevented
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retribution
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payback
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accosted
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greeted in an aggressive manor
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afflicted
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suffering or sickened
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explicit
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clearly stated
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recoiling
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to shrink back, fear
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termination
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conclude
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subsided
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settle down
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impunity
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freedom from consequences
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motley
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multicolored
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abscond
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to leave secretly and hide, to avoid the law
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gesticulation
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am emphatic gesture
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implore
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to appeal to, beseech
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immolation
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destruction
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imminent
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likely to happen soon
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iridescent
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having shifting rainbowlike colors
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vortex
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center of a situation
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infallibility
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condition of being unable to fail
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vortex
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center of a situation
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infalibility
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unable to fail
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entrails
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internal organs
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entrails
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internal organs
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precariously
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insecurely
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evanesced
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faded away
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entrails
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internal organs
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evanesced
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faded away
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careen
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to rush headlong or carelessly
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blighted
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plant disease cause by bacteria air pollution, impares growth
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reiterated
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to say again or repeated
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lassoed
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to catch with a long rop
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formality
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the queality or condition or being formal
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pallid
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pale
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vanquished
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defeated
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fetic
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smelly
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impasive
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showing no emotion
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disconsolately
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unhappily
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unrequited
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not returned
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scruples
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uneasy feeling from conscience
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palpable
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capable of being touched, easily perceived
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indolently
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lazy
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bizarre
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odd
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naive
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simple
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blandly
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dull
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grotesque
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bizarre
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futile
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having no useful result
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