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27 Cards in this Set
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Effulgence
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Shining forth brightly; radiant
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Fulcrum
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The support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body
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Enmity
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Hatred; animosity
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Fawn
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Light yellowish-brown color
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Furtive
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Taken by stealth; done in secret
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Suffusion
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To overspread with or as with a liquid
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Immured
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To shut in; confine
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Defiles
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Any narrow passage, especially between mountains
To march in a line |
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Ebullience
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Overflowing with enthusiasm
Boiling or bubbling up |
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Vicissitude
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Interchange or alternation, as of states or things; alternating changes
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Tacit
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Understood without being openly stated or spoken
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Susurration
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A soft murmur or whisper
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Detritus
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Debris
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Myriad
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An infinitely great number; innumerable
(Sometimes) Ten thousand |
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Festoon
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A string or chain of flowers
To adorn with a string or chain of flowers |
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Prefect
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A person appointed to any various positions of authority
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Derisive
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Ridiculing; mocking
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Fervor
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Great warmth and earnestness of feeling; ardor; intensity; passion
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Corpulent
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Obese; portly; stout; fat
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Torrid
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Oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, air, etc
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Barmy
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Frothy
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Antiphonal
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Pertaining to psalm, hymn, or prayer
Responsive |
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Ululation
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Loud, wordless, and shrill lamentation
(Ululate) To wail |
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Cordon
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To surround or blockade
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Crepitation
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A crackling
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Covert
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A covering or cover
Clandestine; surreptitious; done in secret |
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Utopia
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An ideal, perfect society
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