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75 Cards in this Set
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alacrity
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cheerful, readiness, promptness, willingness
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assegais
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slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people in Africa
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diaphanous
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sheer, light, hazy, gauzy, fine, see-through
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enigma
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mystery, bewilderment, question, problem
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indefatigable
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untiring, active, determined, persistant
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inscrutable
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hidden, mysterious, blank
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lugubrious
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dismal, melancholy
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prevaricator
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liar, cheat
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rapacity
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greed, avarice, frugality
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altruistic
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unselfish, benevolent, kind
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harlequin
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clown, buffoon, jester
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implacable
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merciless, cruel, relentless, not easily satisfied
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peroration
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epilogue, finale, final performance
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pestiferous
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annoying, harmful, diseased, bothersome
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recondite
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mysterious, obscure
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serried
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packed, full
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fecund
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productive, proliferent, fruitful
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guileless
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honest, candid, frank, genuine
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inexorable
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cruel, pitiless, adamant
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irresolutely
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doubtfully, skeptically
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languor
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lethary, apathy, dullness
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odious
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hateful, horrible
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tenebrous
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dark, ominous
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voracious
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very hungry, greedy
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aspirations
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a strong desire or aim
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bestiality
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brutish or beastly character or behavior
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catafalque
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a raised structure on which the body of a deceased lies
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flouted
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treated with disdain, scorn, or contempt
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roguery
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roguish conduct, rascality
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desecration
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divest of sacred or hallowed character
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desuetude
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the state of being no longer used or practiced
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iniquitous
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characterized by injustic or wickedness
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jaded
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dulled or satiated by overindulgence; worn out or wearied
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laggards
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lingerer, loiterer
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conflagration
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a destructive, extensive fire
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covetousness
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inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions
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engendered
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produced, caused, or gave rise to
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frowsy
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disheveled, disordered, slovenly
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parricide
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to murder one's parents
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acquiesced
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submit or comply silently without protest
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coronals
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a crown, coronet
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disingenuous
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lacking in frankness, insincere
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supererogation
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to do more than duty requires
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woodbegirt
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surrounded by woods
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abhor
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detest utterly, loathe
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circumfluent
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flowing around, encompassing
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decollation
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to behead, decapitate
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dogmas
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a system of principles or tenets
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ignoble
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of low character or aims, inferior
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icon
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a religious image or symbol; a small picture
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foppish
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foolish, silly, dandy in looks
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loquaciously
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given to excessive talking
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penchant
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a strong and continued inclination
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bilious
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pale, or sick, marked by suffering from disordered liver function; peevish, ill-natured
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casuistry
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overgeneral reasoning, deceptive, misleading
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charlatanism
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fraud, faker
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ingenuousness
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simplicity and candidness
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licentiousness
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lacking legal or moral restraint
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didactically
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designed or intended to teach, bookish, precise, constructively
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scofflaw
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a contemptuous law violater
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mountebank
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a boastful, unscrupulous pretender
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retrograde
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backward, reversely
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anomaly
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something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified
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ephemeral
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lasting only one day or a short period of time
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perspicacious
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observant, perceptive
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perfidy
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treachery, betrayal
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scrofulous
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morally degenerate, corrupt
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pettifogger
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imposter, beguiler, lawyer, unscrupulous person
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calumny
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slander, lie
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impunity
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freedom, security, immunity
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golgotha
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the place where Jesus was crucified
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sodom
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one of the cities God destroyed
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schiller
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Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller, work with aesthetics
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lazarus
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subject of a miracle of Jesus, brother to mary and martha
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ignoble
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of low character or aims, inferior
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