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29 Cards in this Set
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Usurp |
To seize and hold (a position, office, power, ect.)by force without legal right. |
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Moiety |
A half |
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Portentous |
Marvelous; amazing; prodigious |
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Harbinger |
Something indicating the approach of something or someone |
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Partisan |
A pipe with a long tapering blade with lateral projections |
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Hallowed |
Worthy of religious veneration |
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Auspicious |
Arguing favorable circumstances and good luck |
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Filial |
Relating to or characteristics of or befitting an offspring |
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Obsequious |
Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner |
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Retrograde |
Moving or directed or tending in a backward Direction |
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Jocund |
Full or showing high-spirited merriment |
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Discourse |
Extended verbal expression in speech or writing |
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Truant |
Absent without permission |
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Countenance |
The appearance conveyed by a person's face |
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Tenable |
Based on sound reasoning or evidence |
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besmirch |
Smear so as to make dirty or stained |
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prodigal |
Recklessly wasteful |
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Libertine |
A dissolute person |
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Unfledged |
Young and inexperienced |
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Censure |
Sexual acts between relatives in the same family |
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Husbandry |
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
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Parley |
A negotiation between enemies |
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Beguile |
Attract |
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Traduce |
Speak unfavorably about |
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Canonize |
Treat as a sacred person |
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Sovereignty |
Royal Authority, the Dominion of a monarch |
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Adulterate |
Mixed with impurities |
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Pernicious |
Exceedingly harmful |
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Antic |
Ludicrously odd |
