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94 Cards in this Set
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Grat
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pleasant, thank, favor
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gracious
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pleasant
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gratify
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source of pleasure
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gratis
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free
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gratuitous
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free, unwarranted
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gratuity
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tip
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ingrate
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ungrateful person
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ingratiate
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establish oneself in favor of another
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mor, mort
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death
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moribund
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dying
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mortality
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death rate, mortal nature
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mortician
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undertaker
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mortuary
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funeral home
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rigor mortis
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stiffness of the body that sets in hours after death
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corp
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body
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corporal
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bodily
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corporation
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body auhorized to carryo on an activity with the rights and duties of a single person
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corps
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organized boyd of eprsons, branch of the military
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corpulent
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obese
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corpus
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general collection of writings
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corpuscle
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blood cell, minute particle
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corpus delicti
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facts proving a crime has been committed, body of the victim in a murder case
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esprit de corps
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groups spirit
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habeas corpus
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write requireing a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention, right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment
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duct, duct
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lead, conduct, draw
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conducive
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helpful
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deduction
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reasoning from the general to the particular, subtration
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duct
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tube for conducting
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ductile
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easily led, able to be drawn or hammered
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induce
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move by persuasion
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inductino
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reasoning from the particular to the general, initiation
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traduce
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vilify
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viaduct
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bridge for conducting a road over a valley
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secut, sequ
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follow
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consequence
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result, importance
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cur, curr, curs
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run
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concur
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happen together, agree
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concurrent
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occuring at the same time
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cursory
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running over hastily
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discursive
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wandering from one topic to another
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incursion
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raid, rushing into
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gress, grad
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step, walk, go
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egress
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exit
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gradation
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act of grading, change by steps
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gradient
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slope, rate of rising
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graduated
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arranged in regular steps
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retrograde
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becoming worse
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trasngress
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step beyond the limits, break a law
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ped
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food
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expedite
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facilitate, speed up
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pedestal
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support of statue, foundation
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pedestrian
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dull
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velocipede
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early form of bicycle
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tract, tang
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touch
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contiguous
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touching
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contingent
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depending on something esle, accidental
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tact
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sensitive mental perception of what's appropriate on occasion
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tactile
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tantgible, pertaining to sense of touch
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tangentail
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merely touching
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prehend, prehens
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seize, grasp
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apprehend
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seize, understand
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comprehensive
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including much
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prehensile
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adapted for seizing
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ject
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throw, cast
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abject
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sunk to a low condition
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conjecture
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guess
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dejected
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discouraged
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vert, verse
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turn
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diversion
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entertainment
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divert
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turn aside, entertiain
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incontrovertible
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not open to question
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obverse
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side turned towared the observer
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versatile
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able to turn w/ ease from one thing to another
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vertigo
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dizziness
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mis, miss, mit, mitt
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send
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demise
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death
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emissary
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person sent on a mission
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intermittent
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coming and going at intervals
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missive
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letter
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remiss
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careless
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remit
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send money due, forgive
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locut, loqu
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speak, talk
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circumlocution
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roundabout way of speaking
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colloquy
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conference
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elocution
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rt of speaking/reading in public
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grandiloquent
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using pompous words
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interlocutor
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questioner, participant in conversation
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loquacious
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talkative
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obloquy
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censure, public reproach
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fer, ferous
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bearing, yielding, producing
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auferous
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bearing goldpestiferous
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pestiferousinfected w/ disease, evil
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infected w/ disease, evil
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somniferous
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bearing or inducing sleep
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vociferous
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producing a loud outcry, noisy
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