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27 Cards in this Set
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abhorrent
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inspiring disgust and loathing
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benefactor
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a person who gives money or other help to a person or cause
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disparagement
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of little work
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vicariously
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experienced in the imagination through the feelings of another person
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omnipotent
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having unlimited power
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apparition
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ghost or ghostlike image of a person
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execrating
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feel or expressing great loathing for
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disdainfully
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showing content or lack of respect
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pilfering
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steal
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exonerated
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release someone from a duty or obligation
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felicitous
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someones feelings
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fortuitous
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good fortune
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consolatory
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a person or thing providing such comfort
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ostenatious
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characterized by vulgar or pretentious display
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malevolent
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having or showing to do evil to others
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benevolent
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well meaning and kindly
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melancholy
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a deep, pensive, long lasting sadness
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disdain
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the feeling that sometihng or someone is unworthy of ones consideration or respect
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coarse
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rude, crude, vulgar
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insolently
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showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
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contemptous
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scornful
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penitential
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relating it, or expressing penitance of penace
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disconcerted
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thrown into confusion
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abberation
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the fact or an instance of being arrant, especially from a moral standard or moral state
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vanquished
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overcome in battle
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counterance
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calm facial expression
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conciliate
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to gain by pleasing acts
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