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21 Cards in this Set
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Novel
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new; original
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renaissance
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a period of rebirth
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broach
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to bring up a subject
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beget
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to give birth to, to create
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spawn
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to produce a great number
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salmon spawn
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Visionary
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n. a dreamer, a person with impractical goals or ideas about the future;
adj: idealistic and usually impractical |
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Provident
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prepared for and providing for the future
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improvident
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negligent; wasteful; failing to provide for the future
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replenish
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to fill again
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replenishment
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a refill
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Vestige
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a last remaining trace
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vestigial
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like a vestige
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precursor
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a forerunner, a predecessor
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rustic
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rural, lacking urban comfort, primitive
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antecedant
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an earlier more primitive model
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Precedent
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an earlier, similar example of someone or something
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unprecedent
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not done or known before; entirely new
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conventional
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common, customary
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convention
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a custom, or practice
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rudimentary
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basic, crude; unformed or undeveloped
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adage
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an old saying, a familiar bit of wisdom
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