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20 Cards in this Set
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marionette
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puppet
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thimble
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1. a small cap, usually of metal, worn over the fingertip to protect it when pushing a needle through cloth in sewing.
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distill
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to concentrate, purify, or obtain
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drench
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1. to wet thoroughly; soak.
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apprenticeship
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3. a learner; novice learning under a master
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obligate
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4. necessary; essential.
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salamander
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a tailed amphibian
a mythical lizard thought to live in fire |
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exotic
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strikingly unusual
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capillary
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pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike. Anatomy. one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins. |
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phoenix
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a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope.
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proclivity
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natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition:
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ignite
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to set on fire
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asylum
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) an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill,
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odious
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. highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
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tamp
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to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
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cacophony
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harsh discordance of sound
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centrifuge
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an apparatus that rotates at high speed
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pantomime
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to act out
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cymbal
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a brass plate played with drums
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incinerator
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furnace
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