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30 Cards in this Set
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Licorice |
a black chewy candy made from a bitter tasting root |
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archfiend |
A devil, a very evil person |
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devise |
Come up with, invent |
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dilemma |
a difficult choice you have to make between two things you could do:
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a whisker of |
Very close to... |
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in droves |
in large numbers |
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an intrusion |
involvement in a situation that people want to be private
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feel squirrely |
feeling restless and uneasy |
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Good grief! |
An exclamation of anger or hopelessness |
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Absolute Crap |
Something that it terrible, very bad |
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to piss away |
to waste |
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Ether |
A drug used to make patients go to sleep |
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a month in the country |
a pleasant experience, an easy time |
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to underplay something |
to make something such as a dangerous situation seem less important or dangerous than it really is:
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vailant |
brave courageous |
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stoic |
dealing with pain, problems, etc, but never complaining
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cardiomyopathy |
chronic disease of the heart muscle.
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Gotcha! |
1. I understand what you said 2. I caught you |
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resistant to |
not harmed or affected by something:
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to run thin |
Not many, only a few |
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risky stuff |
a dangerous thing |
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a holding action |
an action to slow down something or someone |
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on any terms |
Whatever the cost |
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rogue cells |
cells not behaving in the way that is expected or wanted:
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thrive |
to prosper to succeed |
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Screw it! |
I give up! |
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worst sort of folly |
the worst kind of foolishness, a stupid decision |
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to steamroll someone |
a person who forces other people to agree with them and prevents any opposition
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conflagration |
a large uncontrollable fire |
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to get juiced |
to get drunk |
