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15 Cards in this Set
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ascetic
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practicing great self denial
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august
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profoundly honored
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sedentary
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requiring sitting or little activity
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immutability
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being incapable of change
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sepulchre
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a chamber used as a grave
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emmisary
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someone sent on a mission for someone else
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sordid
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morally unethical
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lugubrious
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excessfully mournful
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drollery
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a quaint and amusing jest
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declivity
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a downward slope
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alacrity
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liveliness and eagerness
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rapacious
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excessively greedy
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insidious
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working in a hidden and harmful way
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moribund
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not growing or changing, on the point of death
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volubility
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being facile in speech or writing
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