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60 Cards in this Set
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Abscond |
To run of and hide |
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Access |
Approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v.) to get at, obtain |
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Anarchy |
A lack of government and law; confusion |
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Arduous |
Hard to do, requiring much effort |
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Auspicious |
Favorable; Fortunate |
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Biased |
Favoring one side unduly; prejudiced |
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Daunt |
To overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage |
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Disentangle |
To feee from tangled or complication |
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Fated |
Determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
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Hoodwink |
To mislead by trick, deceive |
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Inanimate |
Not having life; without energy or spirit |
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Incinerate |
To burn to ashes |
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Intrepid |
Very brace, fearless, unshakeable |
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Larceny |
Theft |
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Plaint |
Bending readily; easily influenced |
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Pompous |
Overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious |
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Precipice |
A very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster |
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Rectify |
To make right, correct |
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Reprieve |
A temporary relief or delay (v.) to grant a postponement |
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Revile |
To attack with words, call bad names |
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Accomplice |
A person who takes part in a crime |
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Annihilate |
To destroy completely |
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Arbitrary |
Unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness |
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Brazen |
Shameless, impudent; made of brass |
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Catalyst |
A substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change |
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Exodus |
A large-scale departure or flight |
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Facilitate |
To make easier; to assist |
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Incorrigible |
Not able to be corrected; beyond control |
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Latent |
Hidden, present but not realized |
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Militant |
Give to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause (n.) an activist |
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Morose |
Having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable |
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Opaque |
Not letting light through; not clear or lucid, but I still find the author's |
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Paramount |
Chief in importance, above all others |
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Prattle |
To talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; (n.) babble; baby talk |
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Rebut |
To offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute |
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Reprimand |
To scold; find fault with; (n.) a rebuke |
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Servitude |
Slavery, forced labor |
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Slapdash |
Careless and hasty |
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Stagant |
Not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull |
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Succumb |
To give way to superior, yield |
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Atone |
To make up for |
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Bondage |
Slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
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Credible |
Believable |
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Defray |
To pay for |
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Dilligent |
Hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
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Doleful |
Sad; dreary |
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Ghastly |
Frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
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Hamper |
To hold back |
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Hew |
To shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
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Improverished |
Poor, in a state of poverty; depleted |
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Incessant |
Never stopping, going on all the time |
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Intricate |
Complicated; difficult to understand |
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Lucid |
Easy to understand, clear; ration, sane |
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Posthumous |
Occurring or published after death |
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Prim |
Overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish |
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Sardonic |
Grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
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Superfluous |
Exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
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Supplant |
To take the place of, supersede |
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Taunt |
To jeer at, mock; (n.) an insult or mocking remark |
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Tenacious |
Holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent |
