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38 Cards in this Set
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Horticultural
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The art of growing fruit, vegetables, and flowers
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Insular
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of or pertaining to an island
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Expatriate
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living in a foreign land
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Armament
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military equipment
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Gendarm
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French police
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Peculation
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to embezzle
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Amicable
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characterized by friendly goodwill
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Domino
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Lord
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Nautiform
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shaped like the hull of a ship
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Pullet
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young fowl
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Stellar
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of or pertaining to the stars
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Subservience
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a subordinate place of function
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Agragarian
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of or relating to fields or land
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Ciborian
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a goblet-shaped vessel
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Equid
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a four-footed animal
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Rosace
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rose-shape ornament
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Quintessance
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5th and highest element of medieval philosophy
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Amiable
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generally agreeable
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Constellate
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to unite in a cluster
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Sub rosa
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secretly
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Campestral
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of or relating to fields or open country
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Defenestration
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a throwing of a person or thing out the window
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Nonplus
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to cause to be at a loss as to what to say think or do: perplex
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Octothorpe
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a pound sign
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Terreplain
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the level space beyond the rampart where guns are mounted
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
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a new order of the ages (is created)
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Annuit Coeptis
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God has favored our undertaking
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caveat emptor
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let the buyer beware
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quid pro quo
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tit for tat
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carpe diem
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seize the day
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amicus curae
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friend of the court
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tempis fugit
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time flies
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exemplia gratia, or e.g.
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for example
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Anno Domini
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in the year of our Lord
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ave atque vale
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hail & farewell
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aqua vitae
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water of life
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ad infintum
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to infinity
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ad astra per aspera
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to the stars through difficulties
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