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77 Cards in this Set
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athwart
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being against something
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avatar
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reincarnation of a deity on earth
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candid
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frank
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brusque
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rudly abrupt in manner; blunt
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irascible
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easily provoked to anger
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immanent
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remaining within; something within you
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insufferable
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intolerable
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augur
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prophet; omen
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indolent
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slothful; lazy; avoiding action
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mendacity
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lying
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vacuous
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empty
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consternation
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sudden amazement/dread that results in utter confusion or dismay
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meretricious
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alluring by flashy attraction; VEGAS
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fatuously
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silly; pointless
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myriad
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10,000; or very great number
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flaccid
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soft and limp; flabby; not firm
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evocative
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bringing strong images or feelings
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purloin
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stea
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chiaroscuro
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treatment of light and shade in art
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accrete
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grow by accumulation
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sultry
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hot and humid
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fecund
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producing an abundance of offspring
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defunctive
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having ceased to live; of the dead
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purlieus
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area near or surrounding a place
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expiate
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analyze and develop an idea in detail
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sentient
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able to feel things
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concomitant
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exists simaltaneously with something else
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sloth
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laziness
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redolent
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having pleasant odor
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abnegation
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self denial
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caricature
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exaggeratd piece of art
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soporific
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sleepy or drowsy
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flouted
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to insult
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excrete
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expel as waste
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adjure
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to command under oath
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abject
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wretched
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aggrndisement
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increase in power, wealth
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chidden
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scold or rebuke
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esoteric
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intended for a sall nuber of people
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parsimony
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etreme unwillingness to spend money, being stingy; ROCH
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demure
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modest and shy
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abasemment
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humiliation or dgredation
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cogitant
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knowing
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imbue
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saturate with (knowledge)
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celerity
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swifness of movement
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tryst
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a private, romantic rondevoo between lovers
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spurious
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false or fake
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catafalque
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where dead lies, raised
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disgorge
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to vomit
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moiled
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churned, swirled, confusion, turmoil
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unfastidious
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easy to please
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ascetic
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person leading simple life
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suffused
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to fill somehting (with fluid)
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nimbus
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a cloud etc. surrounding a GOD/GODDESS ON EARTH
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cozen
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to cheat
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diffidence
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shyness
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maculate
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sptted, impure, stained
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dessiccation
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to dry thoroughly
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slough
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to get rid of skin off snake, discard
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preclusive
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rule out in advance
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clotted
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to cluster
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supineness
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prone, inactive
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orifice
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opening
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morganatic
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man of high class marries woman low class and child gets low class
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apotheosis
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elevation to god state
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muse
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to think or meditate in silence
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tagend
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miscellaneous, random bit
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ratiocination
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process of logical reasoning
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subterraneous
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hidden
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catalepsy
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illness where lost control of limbs but others can move them and they stay- BARBIE
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ACHIMAERA
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FIREBREATHING MONSTER
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SUBIME
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SUPREME
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BRAGGADOCIO
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BOASTING PERSON
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cloitral
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like a convent
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anathema
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person or somehting detested- has a curse
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bivouac
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militaryy camp/temporary camp
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ramified
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to divide/spread out in to branches
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