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60 Cards in this Set
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Cluster
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A number of things of the same kind grouped together
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Gestured
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A movement of the hand, arm, body or head that expresses emotion
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Snarled
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Tangled
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confidently
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Excessively bold
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Scrawny
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Very thin
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Feeble
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Weak and frail
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Astonishment
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To cause amazement
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Glints
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Quick flash of light
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Accustomed
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Used to something
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Composed
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Be calm
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Loot
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Anything stolen; Money
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Capsized
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Turn bottom side up
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Toiling
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To move with difficulty
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Expanses
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Uninterrupted space
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Faint
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Dizzy, weak or exhausted
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Flushed
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To get red from heat
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Listless
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Having or showing no interest in something
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Tasseled
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A bunch of thread formed into a ball with things hanging from it
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Skittered
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To run rapidly
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Refugee
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People who flee their own country
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Dense
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Having parts placed close together
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Thicket
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Thick, dense growth of trees or shrubs
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Stinginess
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Not generous
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Scanty
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Barely sufficient
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Destination
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A place where a person is going
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Jolt
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To shake
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Hitched
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To tie by means of a hook or string
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Fury
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Violent anger
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Trudged
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A hard walk
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Gory
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Bloody
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Kindling
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Material that can easily be ignited
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Lumbered
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Struggle to get up; move clumsily
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Suburbs
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A place outside a city
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Provisions
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Supply of food and goods
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Withering
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Shrivel, fade, decay
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Dwindling
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To become smaller and smaller
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Glowered
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To look or stare at with dislike
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Serenely
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Calm, peaceful
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Veered
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Change direction quickly; to turn
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Lurched
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To roll or move suddenly
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Version
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A particular account of some matter
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Ancient
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Very old
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Logic
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Reason or sound judgment
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Myriad
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A very great number of things
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Thrust
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Push forcibly
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Trilling
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Sing in a succession of vast sounds
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Glimpses
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A very brief passing look
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Scrawled
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Write awkwardly, carelessly; Illegible
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Grudgingly
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Unwillingly
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Probing
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Search or examine through
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Sludge
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Mud or slush
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Encountered
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To come upon or meet unexpectedly
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Plagued
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To trouble or bother
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Ranges
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The distance of something that is located from another point
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Outcrops
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Something that emerges suddenly
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Jagged
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Having notches, points or teeth
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Daunted
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To overcome with fear
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Chaos
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Disorderly space
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Plunged
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To cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something
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Scrabbled
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Dig frantically with the hands
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