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83 Cards in this Set
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Plundered
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to seize by force
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hallowed
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to ake holy
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heralds
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messengers, messages
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lyre
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stringed intrusment
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bard
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poet
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thrawt
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to prevent an occurence
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uncanny
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unsettleing or errie
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shroud
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cloth used to wrap body abroad
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omens
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sign of good or evil
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cunning
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skilled in deception
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libations
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a beverage; pouring of liquids
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citadel
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a fortress
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sacked
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capture an d rob
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wrath
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forcefull anger
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smith
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metal worker
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whetted
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to sharpen
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reveling
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to engage in delightful activities
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illustrious
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well known; shinning
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craven
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cowardly
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tact
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sensitivity to properness in dealing with others
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zealous
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enthusiasm
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chide
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to scold mildly
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suppliant
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asking humbly
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quarry
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stone pit
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beguile
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to decieve
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insolent
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insulting
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spurn
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to reject cotemptuosly
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languish
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to become weaker; feble; or pine away
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shackle
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metal fasceninn; somehting that holds your back
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diehard
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cling to a hopeless cause
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borne
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to carry from plac to place; to support
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unscathed
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unharmend
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brooding
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to be depressed or focus attention
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malinger
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To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work.
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ignominious
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shameful
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ardent
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passionate
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fallow
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plowed, left unseeded
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heady
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intoxicating, rash
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prowess
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superior skill or ability
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daunt
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discourage
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wrought
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ohsical or mental effort to accomplish something
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harangue
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long pompass speech or tyraid or harass
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patrimony
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inheritence from father
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vagabond
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a person without a peranent address
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vagrant
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a wanderer a public nuissance
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insatiable
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impossible to satisfy
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affronting
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to insult intentionally
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denounced
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to condemn openly as being evil
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thronged
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a large group of people gatherd together
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sodden
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throghly saked (expressionless; depressed)
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sodden
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throughly soaked
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jeered
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to speak or shout derisively; mock
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ultimatum
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final set of demands
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forsake
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to give up; renounce
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gnarled
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knotty or mishapen
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wily
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full of wiles or cunning
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to pronounce
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to provoke or urge on
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rove
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to wander about at random
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qualm
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an usteady feeling
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yeanr
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to feel deeply for in longing and sympathy
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contrive
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to plan with cleverness and intrigue
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reproach
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to express disapproval of
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squalid
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dirty wretched
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distraught
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deeply agitated from emotional conflict
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hermetic
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airtight seal
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elysian
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causinng happiness, blissful delightfull
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jovial
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Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer
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labyrthine
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maze like
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lethargic
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unusually tired or lazy
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mercurial
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Quick and changeable in temperament; volatile
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procrustean
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Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means.
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pyrrhic
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a war dance
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saturine
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Melancholy or sullen
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stygian
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Gloomy and dark
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terpsichorean
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realating to dance or a dancer
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thespian
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a person involved in theater
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titanic
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Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal
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xenophobia
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someone affraid of foreigners or strangers
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philogyny
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fondness for women
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philology
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study of language and literature
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misanthrope
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hater of humanity
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misogamy
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hatred of marriage
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misogyny
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hatred of women
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