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119 Cards in this Set
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Abscond
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to hide
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Parsimonious
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frugal with money [stingy]
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Romanesque
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before gothic architecture
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Puerile
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childish
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Virile
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manly, heroic
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Puericulture
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the art of raising children
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Ecclesiastic
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having to do with the church
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Cogent
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powerful, compelling
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Vocation
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a calling
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Avocation
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calling away from a vocation
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Convocation
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calling together
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Invocation
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calling inward [often in prayer]
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Pedagogy
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the art of teaching
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Impecunious
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having no money
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Equanimity
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fairness, impartial judgment, serenity
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Collaborate
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work together
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Hymen
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marriage, wedding song
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Obdurate
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persistent, casually evil, criminal
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Maecenas
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a patron of the arts
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Ludus Litterarum
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school of letters [elementary]
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Schola Grammatica
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school of grammar [learned how to write Greek & Latin]
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Schola Rhetorici
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school of rhetoric [college]
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Stygian
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having to do with the river Styx
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Edifice
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a building or structure
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Sepulchre
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a tomb or sorcophagus
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Scintilla
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spark, tiny, shred of...
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Duress
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forced to do something
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Risibility
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laughable, having the faculty of laughter
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Arable
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able to be plowed and formed [land]
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Fortitude
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moral strength
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Servitude
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Slavery like occupation
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Solicitude
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"motherly" care
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Lassitude
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weariness
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Vicissitude
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ups and downs of life
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Epistle
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letter [having to do with Catholicism]
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Epistolary
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letter stylized writing
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Conjugal
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having to do with marriage
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Lapidate
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to stone
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Lapidary
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hard; stone-like
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Insignia
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symbol
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Vulnerable
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able to be wounded
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Sinecure
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worry free, without care
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Riparian
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river side, bank of the river [adjective]
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Minutia
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small detail
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Patres Conscripti
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senators
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Miles Gloriosus
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the boosting soldier [Plautus, comic playwright]
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Culpability
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guiltiness
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Iniquity
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unfairness
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Infernal
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belonging to hell
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Infitesimal
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very small
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Mandamus
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an order issued by a court to a corporation to enforce performance of some public duty; form a superior tribunal [a writ or order]
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Tenet
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a principle, belief or doctrine generally held true
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Gratis
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Free of charge
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Ignormaus
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one who knows nothing
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Veto
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[I forbid] to disallow a lower from being passed
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Habitat
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an area in which one lives
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Portal
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gate,door
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Mundane
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worldly, of the world
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Post Prandial
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after lunch
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Prandium
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lunch
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Ientaculum
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breakfast
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Ibid
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in the same place
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Pejorative
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derrogatory
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Sacerdocy
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Priesthood [sacerdotal]
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Pontiff
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the Pope
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Rubicon
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the river of the Caesar crossed the Gaul
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Pythic
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nonsense convoluted statement
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Affidavit
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a sworn oath, written
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Conative
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striving, will to obtain power
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Conativism
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power of striving with necessity of a g oal
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Largesse
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to be acting with generosity
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Revere
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show highest respect for
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Reverence
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deep respect with element of fear
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Frumentacious
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having to do with grain
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Orient
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the east [rise]
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Occident
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the west [fall, set]
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Bis
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twice, repeat
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Bisextilis annus
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a leap year
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Biannual
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twice a year
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Biennial
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every two years
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Biennium
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couples groups of two years
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Lacrimose
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tearful
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Nubile
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applies to a woman of marriable age
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Vaticination
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a prophesideous
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Tristesse
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sadness, gloom
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Capillary
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tiny, hair-like
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Nuptual
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having to do with marriage
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Onerous
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burdensome
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Galvanize
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electrifying, conjure emotion
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Pulchritude
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beautiful
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Timorous
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fearful
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Debenture
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what is owed to a person [stocks]
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Mortuary
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a housing for the dead
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Ludicrous
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not to be believed, outrageous, absurd
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Reiterate
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to repeat for emphasis / clarification
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Exigency
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emergency; seriousness
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Telluric
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having to do with the earth
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Nihilist
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denies the existence of truth or moral principle
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Annihilate
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to destroy completely
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Conative
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having been tried
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Peregrination
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wondering, reaming
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Marmoreal
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resembling marble
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Hyperborean
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legendary race of Apollo worshipers living far north
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Confer
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to bring together for comparing [cf]
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Divagation
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a digression; wondering [vagor]
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Exhaust
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[haurio, ire] to draw from
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Aperture
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opening [Aperio]
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Velleity
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lowest degree of desire
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Imbibe
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to soak up
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Tergiversate
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to dodge an issue
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Gestation
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pregnancy/ conception [in the mind]
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Mithridatize
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build immunity to poison
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Verbosity
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wordiness
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Squalid
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filthy
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Incipient
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beginning
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Turpitude
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depravity
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Vesperal
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belong to evening
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Vespers
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evening prayer
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Rosier
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staff of a bishop
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