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16 Cards in this Set
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Blighted
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preventing growth' withers hopes and ambitions
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derisive
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mocking or jeering
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deleterious
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harmful effect; destructive
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efficacious
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producing or having desired effect
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emaciated
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extremely thin
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emissary
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someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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effluence
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emotions that comeout or cause things to occur
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impalpable
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intangible
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lurid
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horrible; shocking; glowing or shining
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malignant
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deadly; pernicious
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locuacity
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talkative; garrolous
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penitential
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book used by priests hearing confession
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presentiments
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a feeling of evil to come; foreboding
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propinquity
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similar in nature
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sedulous
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constant; perservering
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scurrilous
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volgur; coarse
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