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30 Cards in this Set
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Aliennate
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to make hostile, to cause to feel unwelcome or estranged
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Aspire
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to hope to achieve, goal, dream
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Beget
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to give birth to , to create
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Blather
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to talk nonsensically
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Catapult
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slingshot
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Citadel
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a fortress overlooking a city, a stronghold physical or menal
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Congenial
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pleasant to be around, social, agreeable
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Consensus
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general agreement
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Craven
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cowardly
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Curtail
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to limit, abridge, cut away some, to lessen
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Doldrums
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a period of inactivity or depression
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Facilitate
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to make easier, help bring about
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Fjord
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a long narrow inlet from the sea going inward between hills or cliffs
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Glutton
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on who consumes a great deal
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Martyr
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one who suffers for a cause or one who pretends to to gain sympathy
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Mode
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a way of doing something; type, manner, fashion
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Muster
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to collect or gather- the art of inspection or critical examination
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Obtuse
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insensitive, block-headed, slow in comprehension
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Paranoia
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a mental illness of menal anxiety, believing someone is out to get you
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Scrutinize
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to study carefully, to examine in great detail
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logy
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science, study, account
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bio
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life
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tomy
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cutting, oper. of incisino
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pod
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foot
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homo
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one and the same, like
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hetero
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different
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hyper
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over, above
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endo
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within
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exo
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out of, outside
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hypo
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under, beneath
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