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71 Cards in this Set
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Juncture
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A point or line where 2 things join
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Recumbent
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Lying Down
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Mottled
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Marbled; spotted or streaked with different colors
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skittering
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To move lightly
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morosely
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Gloomy
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Scowled
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To look angry or sullen
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Periscope
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An instrument that allows those in a submarine or trench to see a view of the surface
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Brusquely
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Abrupt in manner or speech;blunt
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Imperiously
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Arrogant;overbearing
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Jungle Up
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To camp out
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Bindle
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Luggage
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Thrashin
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Rowdy
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Jack
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Money
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An' live off the fatta land
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Live off the land whatever grows on it
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Ticking
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Thick dorable material usually used as a matress cover
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Mollified
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Soothe
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Pugnacious
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Combative in nature
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Flounced
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jerkily
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Contorted
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Twisted in shape
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Complacently
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Self-satisfied
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Bridled
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A toss of the head
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Pants Rabbit
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Lice
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Grayback Swamper
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Someone who lives in swampy areas
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Stable Buck
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Someone who works with the horses
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Rassel
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To handle something
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Handy
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Be able to fight
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Slough
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To fire
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Jerkline Skinner
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Drives the mules
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Rat-trap
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Louring into jail
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Derision
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Scorned, a laughing stock
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Receptive
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Ready to recieve ideas
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Solitaire
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A card game
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Scuttled
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Scamper
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Kewpie Doll
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A small fat-cheeked doll
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Reprehensible
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Worthy of blame
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Bemused
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Confuse
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Wryly
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Dry Humor
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Hoosegow
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Jail
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On the County
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Welfare
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Scrammed
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Go abruptly
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Welter
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Light weight boxer
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Hame
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An attachment on a horse
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Civil Code
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Law of peoples rights
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Aloof
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Distance physically or emotionally
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Meager
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Poor in quality or quanity
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Tattered
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Worn out
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Fawning
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Seek favor
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Boring
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stare a hole through someone
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apprehension
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dread
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sulleness
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somber, gloomy
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Averted
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to turn away
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Talon
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Similar to an animal's claw
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Woe
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wretchedness
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Ringer
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A horseshoe or quiot thrown so that it encircles the peg
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Earnestly
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Marked by showing deep sincerity
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writhed
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To twist in pain
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cringed
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Cower
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Lynched
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To hang
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Sniveled
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To complain tearfully
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Sulkily
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gloomy
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Tenement
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tournament
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lanced
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to lunge forward
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scudded
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to skim along easily
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gingham
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a cotton fabris
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haunches
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hind quarters
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snooker
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a game resembling billards or pool
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belligerently
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agressive
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crafitly
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sly, clever
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alfalfa
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colver-like plant
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luger
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a gun
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muzzle
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the forward, discharging end of the barrel of a gun
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