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59 Cards in this Set
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Adhesive
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A substance that causes something to adhere, as glue or rubber cement.
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Agile
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quick and well-coordinated in movement
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Agitate
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disturb
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Amiable
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having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities
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Amorous
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showing or expressing love
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Audible
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Able to hear
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Auditorium
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A place to listen or hear
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Captivate
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to fascinate by special charm or beauty
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Captive
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one who is taken as a prisoner
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Captor
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One who takes a person as a prisoner
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Capture
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Take by force
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Careened
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To rush carelessly
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Cogitate
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To think deeply
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Cohere
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To stick together, be united
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Coherent
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logically connected; sticking together
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Congenital
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Born with
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Credibility
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Worthiness of belief
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Credible
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Believable
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Doggedness
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Persistence; stubbornness
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Eloquent
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having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech
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Emit
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Send out
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Exclaim
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To cry out or speak suddenly
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Exotic
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Excitingly strange
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Gender
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such a set; being grouped together
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Generate
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To bring into existence; cause to be
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Generation
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entire individuals born and living at the same time
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Genetic
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produced genes
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Habit
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something that holds us
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Habitat
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A special environment for living
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Habituate
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to accustom as to a particular situation
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Heresy
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Belief or theory; opinion
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Hibernate
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to withdraw or be in seclusion
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Homicide
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the killing of a person
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Imminent
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about to occur
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incision
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a cutting into
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Incisive
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Cutting
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Incognito
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In disguise
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Incredible
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not believable
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Infallibility
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An inability to make errors
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Inscribe
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write in something
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Inscription
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written into a surface
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Intercept
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to stop or interrupt the progress of
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Invalid
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Too ill to live a normal life
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Iridescent
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shining with shifting rainbow colors
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Precariously
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Insecurely; in a dangerous way
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Precede
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To come before in time
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Prescribe
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To set down as a rule or guide
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Proceed
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Go forward
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Procession
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the movement of a group in an orderly fashion
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Proclaim
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to announce formally
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Proclamation
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cry out; crying forth
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Pugilist
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Professional fighter
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Pugnacious
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Ready to fight
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Recede
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To go back
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Recognize
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Know by some detail
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Reiterate
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To repeat
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Submit
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send under; yield to another
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Suicide
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killing of oneself
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Transmit
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send across
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