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38 Cards in this Set
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A person who is very poor
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Pauper
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Coming after death
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Posthumous
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Relating to someone or something that foretells events
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Prophetic
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A group regarded as the best, most skilled, etc.
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Elite
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A likeness between different things
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Analogy
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Showing or feeling scorn
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Contemptuous
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Fame, usually in an unfavorable sense
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Notoriety
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Unable to speak clearly
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Inarticulate
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Insensitive; thick and hardened
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Callous
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To make a face showing pain or annoyance
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Grimace
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To express or state positively
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Assert
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To stoop to do something that you think is unworthy of you
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Condescend
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To develop greadually by process of growth and change
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Evolve
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Patient courage in facing danger
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Fortitude
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A wise and trusted teacher
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Mentor
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The quality of being ancient
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Antiquity
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All persons having the right to vote
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Electorate
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Pertaining to right and wrong
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Ethical
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A selected passage or scene from a larger work
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Excerpt
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A belief different from accepted doctrine
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Heresy
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Fatherly
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Paternal
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Friendly; good natured
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Amiable
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A marshy inlet or outlet of a river or lake
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Bayou
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Unconquerable; not easily overcome
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Indomitable
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Capable of being shaped by hammering or pressing
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Malleable
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Overly emotional
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Melodramatic
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To give in to an overpowering force or desire
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Succumb
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A face or appearance
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Visage
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Energetic; vigorous
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Vibrant
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Full of curious ideas or notions; unpredictable
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Whimsical
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A setting free by judgment of a court
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Acquittal
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Uneasy; fearful about the future
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Apprehensive
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Praiseworthy
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Commendable
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Inadequate
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Ineffectual
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Wise and careful; sensable
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Judicious
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A person who believes that truth can best be known through spiritual insight or experience
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Mystic
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A figure of speech in which something nonhumnan is given human qualities
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Personification
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Angered by the unfairness of something
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Indignant
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