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20 Cards in this Set
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To release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free
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extricate
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of or suited to a servant; servile; a domestic servant; a servile person
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menial
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growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread
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rampant
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to persuade by plesant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle
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cajol
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a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a estructive or evil influence or factor
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pestilence
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the absence of government or law; political disorder
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anarchy
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the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point
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nadir
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the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures
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ethnology
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to make worse; to damage or weaken
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impair
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roomy; spacious
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commodious
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giving freely, extravagant; plentiful
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profuse
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very6 poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful
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virulent
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having or making a harsh sound; shrill
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strident
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to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place
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consign
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the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading
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elocution
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the overthrowing oor undermining of something established, such as a government
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subversion
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corpselike; pale and ghastly; thin and gaunt; haggard
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cadaverous
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a person who will not be reformed; incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad
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incorrigible
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to make known to the public, declare; to make widespread
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promulgation
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to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple
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maim
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