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95 Cards in this Set
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adolescent
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teenager
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precipice
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very steep overhang, cliff
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obsolete
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no longeri n use; out of date
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contemporary
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person who lives at the same time as another
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senile
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showing eakness of age
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apogee
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1. farthest point from earth in orbit
2. highest point |
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chasm
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deep breach; wide gap or rift
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dregs
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most worthless part
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kith and kin
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freinds and family
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earthy
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coarse; low
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posthumous
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1. published after hte author's death
2. occurring after death |
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filial
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like a son or daughter
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archaic
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no longer used, except in a speical context; old fashioned
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puerile
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foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish
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menial
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low; mean; subservient; servile
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ravine
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deep, narrowe gordge worn by running water
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progenitor
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forefather
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precipitous
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1. steep as a precipice
2. hasty, rash |
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puberty
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physical beginning of manhood (at about age 14) or womanhood (at about age 12)
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incense
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substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned
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aroma
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pleasant odor, bouquet
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mature
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1. full grown ripe
2. carefully thought out |
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malodorous
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ill-smelling; stinking; fetid; unpleasantly odorous
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preeminent
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standing out above others, superior
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rank
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1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; ofensively gross or coarse
2. extreme |
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noisome
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1. offensive smell; disgusting
2. harmful; noxious |
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putrid
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1. stinking from decay
2. extremely bad; corrupt |
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consummate
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perfect, superb, carried to the highes degree
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reek
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emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with
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olfactory
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pertaining to the sense of smell
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pungent
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sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating
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scent
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smell; perfume
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infantile
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of or like an infant or infancy; childish
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nonage
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lefal minority; period before maturity
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contemporary
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of the same period or duration
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unsavory
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1. unpleasant to taste or smell
2. morally offensive |
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rancid
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unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
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forebear
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forefather, ancesotr
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primeval
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1pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
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inveterate
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1. firmly established by age; deep-rooted
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matriarch
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1. mother and ruler of a faimly
2. highly respected elderly lady |
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patriarch
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1. venerable old man
2. frther and ruler of a family or tribe; founder |
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adolescent
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growing from childhood to adult hood; roughly, of the teenage period
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subliminate
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1. redirect the energy of a persons bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels
2 purify, refine |
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nonagenarian
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perosn in his or her 90s
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primordial
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1. existing at the very beginning
2. elementary; primary; first in order |
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sublime
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elevated, noble, exalted, uplifting
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defunct
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dead; deceased; extinct
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acme
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highest point, pinnacle
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ethereal
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of the heavens, celestial, airy, delicate, intangible
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juvenile
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1. of or for youth; youthful
2. immature |
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zenith
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1. highest point (career)
2. point in the heavens directly overhead |
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pristine
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in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted
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vertex
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farthest point oppostie the base, as in a triangle or pyramid, apex
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antediluvian
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antiquated; belonging to the time before Biblical Flood
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abject
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deserving contempt, wretched
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declivity
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downward slope
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volition
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will
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exalt
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1. lift up w/ joy, pride etc.
2. raise in rank, dignity, etc. |
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Alacrity
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cheerful willingness
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eminent
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standing out, noticible, famous
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abysmal
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deep, profound, immesurably great
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obsolescent
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going out of use; becoming obsolete
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involuntary
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not on one's own free will, spontaneous
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decrepit
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weakened by old age
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loath
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unwilling
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abyss
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bottomless, immesurably deep space
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anticlimax
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abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous, comedown, bathos
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climactic
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arranged in order of increasing force and interest
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aversion
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strong dislike
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loathe
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hate
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acclivity
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upward slope
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eminance
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highrank
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humble
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1. low condition
2. not proud, modest |
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humiliate
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lower the pride, position
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humility
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freedom from pride
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nadir
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lowest point
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plumb
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go to the bottom of
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profound
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very deep; deeply felt
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fraternal
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like a brother
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genealogy
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a person descendants, lineage
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gentility
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1. good manners
2. gentry; upper class |
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maternal
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like a mother
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nepotism
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favoritism by those in power
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paternal
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like a father
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progeny
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ofspring, children, descnedants
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sibling
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brother or sis
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aromatic
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sweet-scented, fragrant
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fragrant
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having a pleasant odor
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fusty
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1 stale smelling; musty; moldy
2. old fashioned |
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scent
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get a suspicion of
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callow
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young and inexperienced; unfledged
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crone
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withered old woman
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hoary
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1. white or gray with age
2. ancient |
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longevity
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1. long life
2. length of life |