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20 Cards in this Set
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Emulate |
Match or surpass, typically by imitation
"Thereto picked on by a most emulate pride," |
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Heraldry |
The system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are devised, described, and regulated.
"Well ratified by law and heraldry,"
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Compulsatory |
Required by law or a rule
"And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands"
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Harbingers |
a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
"As harbingers preceding still the fates" |
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Extort |
obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means.
" Extorted treasure in the womb of earth"
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malicious |
characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm
"And our vain blows malicious mockery." |
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auspicious |
conducive to success; favorable.
"With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,"
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impotent |
unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless.
"Who impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears"
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obsequious |
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
"To do obsequious sorrow"
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truant |
a student who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
"Against yourself. I know you are no truant"
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canonized |
to make canonical; place or include within a canon, especially of scriptural works:
"Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death"
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tenable |
able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
"Let it be tenable in your silence still"
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countenance |
a person's face or facial expression.
" A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
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disposition |
the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude
"To put an antic disposition on,"
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requite |
make appropriate return for (a favor, service, or wrongdoing.
"I will requite your loves."
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prodigal |
spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
"When the blood burns, how prodigal"
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calumnious |
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes." |
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censure |
strong or vehement expression of disapproval
"Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement"
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entreatments |
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg
"Set your entreatments at a higher rate."
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ambiguous |
open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal
"Or such ambiguous giving out, to note"
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