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90 Cards in this Set
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Proffer
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to offer, extend, suggest
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Incredulous
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doubtful, suspicious, undecided
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pliant
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flexible, soft, limber
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fulcrum
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swivel, pivot block
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pallid
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drab, colorless, pale, lifeless
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furtive
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secretive, sly, underhand
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effulgence
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brightness, brilliance, glare, gleam
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suffusion
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glow
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decorous
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honest, respectable, decent
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specious
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seeming, apparent, possible
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strident
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shrill, piercing, high
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indignation
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anger, offense, resentment
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motif
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repeated figure in a design
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bastion
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armor, defense, guard
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efflorescence
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flower, bud, blossom
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gesticulate
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to make gestures
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errant
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roving or wandering, especially in search of adventure
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vicissitudes
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life's ups and downs
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festoon
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a curved garland of flowers
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contrite
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deeply sorry for having done wrong; repentant
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belligerent
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ready to fight, quarrelsome
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impalpable
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too subtle to be easily understood
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myriad
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a great many of persons or things
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tacit
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unspoken; silent
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lament
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to feel or express deep sorrow (for); mourn
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incantation
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words chanted in magic spells
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traverse
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to travel or pass across, over, or through
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brandish
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to wave or flouish menacingly
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corpulent
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excessively fat
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propitiate
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to bring peace to, to soothe
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talisman
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an object marked with magic signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection
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jackie chan adventures
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acrid
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unpleasantely sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell
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ululation
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to howl, wait or lament loudly
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inimical
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injurious or harmful in effect; adverse
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cordon
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a line of people, military posts, or ships stationed in an area to enclose or guard it
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elephantine
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enormous in size or stength
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encumber
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to burden
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divinity
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a being that is holy or considered to be of God
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Talmud
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the body of early Jewish civil and religious law
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mysticism
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belief in the possibility of attainging direct communion with God of knowledge of spiritual truths, as by meditaion (2) obscure thinking or belief
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deportee
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one who has been expelled from a place
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lorry
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a motor truck
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ghetto
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a secton of a European city to which Jews were restricted
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Gestapo
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the terrorist secret police force of Naze Germany
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dreg
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the most worthless part
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truncheon
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a policeman's stick or billy
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hermetically
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airtight
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monotonous
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having no variety
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pestilential
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likely to cause death
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unremittingly
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not stopping, relaxing; persistent
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lucidity
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clarity
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countenance
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facial expression
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automaton
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an automatic device; a robot
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semblance
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resemblance
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livid
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full of rage
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argosy
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a large merchant ship
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edifice
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a building, especially one of imposing appearance or size
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exhortation
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a speech or discourse that urges by strong, often stirring argument, advice, admonitioni, or appeal
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reputed
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generally supposed to be as such; considered or supposed
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presage
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an indication or a warning of a future occurrence; an omen
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superfluity
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overabundance; excess
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virtuous
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having or showing great moral excellence
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dote
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to show excessive love or fondness
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impute
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to charge with the fault or responsibility for something
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demurely
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done in a modest or reserved manner
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tedious
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tiresome by reason of legth, slowness, or dullness; boring
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peruse
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to read or examine, typically woth great care
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vile
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loathsome; disgusting
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heresy
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an opinion or a doctrine at variance with established religious beliefs
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prolixity
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tedious long-windedness; wordiness
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beshrew
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to invoke evil upon; curse
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amity
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peaceful relations; friendship
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visage
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the face or facial expression of a person
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wanton
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immoral or unchaste; lewd
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surfeit
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to feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust; to overindulge
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beseech
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to request earnestly; to beg
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shrewd
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marked by keen awareness, sharp intelligence, and often, practicality
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impervious
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impossible to penetrate or affect
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forfeiture
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something that is surrendered
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malice
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a desire to harm others or see others suffer
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abject
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being of the most miserable kind; wretched
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abhorrent
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disgusting, loathsome, or repellent
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inexorable
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incapable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
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impugn
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to attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
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precedent
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an act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
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contrive
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to plan with evil intent; to scheme
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recant
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to make a formal retraction or disavowal of (a previously held statement or belief)
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trifle
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something of little improtance or value
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paltry
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lacking in importance or worth; trivial
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vehement
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forceful or intense in expression, emotion, or conbiction; fervid
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