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38 Cards in this Set
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alacrity
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cheerful willingness, readiness, liveliness
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volition
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will
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apogee
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farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly being
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eminent
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standing out, notable, famous
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precipitous
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steep as a precipice
hasty, rash |
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abject
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deserving contempt, sunk to a low condition, wretched
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nadir
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lowest point
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plumb
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get to the bottom of, fathom
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filial
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of or like a son or daughter
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gentility
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good manners
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nepotism
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favoritism to relatives by those in power
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progeny
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offspring, children
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fusty
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stale smelling, musty, moldy
old fashioned |
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noisome
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offensive to smell, disgusting
harmful, noxious |
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rancid
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unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
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archaic
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no longer used, except in speical context
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callow
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young and inexperienced
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crone
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withered old women
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inveterate
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firmly established by age
habitual |
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matriarch
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mother and ruler of a family or tribe
highly resepected old women |
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nonage
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legal minority, period before maturity
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primordial
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existing at the very begining
elementary, primary |
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puerile
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foolish for a grown person to say or do, childish
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superannuated
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retired on pension
incapaciatated by age |
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venerable
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worthy of resepect because of advanced age
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking, abstinent
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sot
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person made foolish by excessive drinking
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doldrums
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calm, part of the ocean near equator
listlessness |
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flotsam
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wreckage of a ship found floating on the ocean
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jetsam
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goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
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carrion
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decaying flesh of a carcas
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dross
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waste, refuse
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offal
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waste parts of butchered animal
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sloven
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person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless in dress
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squalor
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filth, degradation
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contiguous
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touching, adjointing
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juxtapose
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put side by side, put close together
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propinquity
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kinship
nearness of place, proximity |
