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91 Cards in this Set
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Vitreous
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Resembling glass
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Vitriolic
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Easily shattered or angered lucrative
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Lucrative
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Profitable
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Indubitably
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Certainly, without a doubt
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Extortion
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To twist money out of someone by threat
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Vim
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A vital force
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Inference
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The act of carrying prior knowledge
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Infirmity
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A weakness or a sickness
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Centenarian
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Someone who lives past 100
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Vicinity
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Nearby area
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Preterite
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Past tense
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Preternatural
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Supernatural
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Sudorific
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Causing sweat
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Manumit
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To release slaves
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Capillary
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Hair like
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Amicably
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In a friendly manner
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Amicably
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Presidiary
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Providing protection
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Flocculent
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Wooly
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Sinecure
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An easy job which pays well
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Mercantilism
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A system which is regulated by the government
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Transmutation
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Changing from one thing into another
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Translucent
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Able to pass across
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Seeiculture
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Silk farming
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Denteification
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The act of making teeth
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Dandelion
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Lions tooth
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Insidious
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Treacherous
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Acrid
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Keen or bitter
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Acrimonious
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Prone to being bitter or sour
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Relinquish
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To let go
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Relic
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Something left behind
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Alate
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Having wings
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Unfulate
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Having hooves
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Nidifugous
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Prone to fleeing from the nest
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Accumulate
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To pile up
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Cumulonimbus
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To pile up
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Lapidary
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Stone carvers
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Effulgent
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Shining out
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Sic
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Thus
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Audacity
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Boldness
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Tergiversate
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To turn ones back on a cause
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Cadence
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The natural fall of your feet or voice
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Second triumvirate
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Lepidus, Marc Antony, Octavian
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Doctrine
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A learned document
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Dulcet
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Sweet melodious
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Dulcinea del toboso
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A literary figure
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Quarto
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1/4 of a big book
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Canister
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A vessel which holds things
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Recapitulate
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To go back to the beginning
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Decapitation
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The act of taking a head off
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Cellophabe
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Something protective that you can see through
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Peninsula
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Almost an island
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Status quo
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The way in which things stand
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Kaiser
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German dictator
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Czar
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A Russian dictator
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Tumultuous
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Prone to root and uproar
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Quondam
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One time
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Tenable
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Able to be owned
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Tenacoous
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Prone to holding onto things
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Tabernacle
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A church or temple
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Pluralism
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The practice of many different groups working and living together
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E pluribus unum
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Out of many there is one
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Ameliorate
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To improve
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Participle
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A part of a verb which acts as an adjective
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Trivial
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Common place
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Solicitous
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Worried, anxious, wanting to help
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Perilous
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Prone to being dangerous
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Defenestration
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Janus
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Pugnacious
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Prone to fighting
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Pugilist
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A fighter
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Septuaging
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The Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures
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Septjaginarian
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A person in their 70's
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Piety
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Respect for elders or gods
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Impeity
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disrespect for elders and gods
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Pious
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Prone to respecting
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Equanimity
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Fairness, calmness
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Consecrate
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To dedicate in a religious way
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Conjugal
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Having to do with marriage
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Conjuncture
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A point where things come together
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Putative
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Commonly thought but not necessarily true
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Vindicate
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To avenge
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Domicile
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A home
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Frangible
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Easily broken
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Incendiary
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Someone who sets things in fire
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Admonition
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A warning
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Admonish
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To warn or improve
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Sapient
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Wise
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Homo sapiens sapiens
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Wise wise man
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Abject
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Cast away or cast down
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eradicate
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To scratch out by the root
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Refectoon
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The act of making a new repairing ones soul
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Subpoena
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When you don't show up for a supina
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