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29 Cards in this Set
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to manage cleverly
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contrive
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based on guesswork
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speculative
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wealth
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affluence
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an ingenious or artful trick
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artifice
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to degrade
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demean
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desire for wealth; greed
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avarice
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to uproot; remove completely
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eradicate
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happiness
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felicity
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a contract in which one person is bound to work for another for a specified period of time
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indenture
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to make easier
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facilitate
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incapable of reform
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incorrigible
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difficult; strenuous
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arduous
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to reduce in amount or degree
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abate
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unending; incessant
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unremitting
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a person's descendants
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posterity
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exiting as a characteristic quality; inborn
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inherent
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tyranny
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despotism
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treachery
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perfidy
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to refuse to support
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disavow
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impermanent; temporary
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transient
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to compel or force
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constrain
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to tempt
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allure
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to comply without protest
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acquiesce
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the act of taking possession by force
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usurpation
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to erase
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expunge
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an unjustifiable claim
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pretension
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to demonstrate plainly
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evince
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to give up officially
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abdicate
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nobility of spirit
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magnanimity
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