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20 Cards in this Set
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Adversary
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An enemy, opponant
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Against
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Alienate
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To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey
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An alien of our country
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Artifice
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A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery
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Coerce
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To compel, force
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COmpEl
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Craven
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Cowardly (adj.); a coward (n.)
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The raven is scared
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Culinary
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Of or related to cooking or the kitchen
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Delete
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To erase, wipe out, cut out
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Demise
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A death, especially of a person in lofty position
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Exhilarate
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to enliven, cheer, give spirit or livliness to
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Fallow
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(adj.) plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; (n.) land left unseeded; (v.) to plow but not seed
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Harass
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to disturb, worry, to trouble by repeated attacks
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Inclement
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Stormy, harsh, severe in a in attitude or action
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Muse
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To think about in a dreamy way
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Negligible
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So unimportant that it can be disregarded
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Perpetuate
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To make permanent or long lasting
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PERminant
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Precedent
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An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
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Punitive
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Inflicting or aiming at punishment
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PUNIshment
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Redress
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(v.) To set right, remedy; (n.) relief from wrong or injury
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Sojourn
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(n.) a temporary stay; (v.) to stay for a time
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Urbane
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Refined in a manner or style, suave
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UrbAnE
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