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43 Cards in this Set
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Limpid
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Clear; Transparent; Free from obscurity; Lucid
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Lucid
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clear; easily understood; distinct; evident
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Turbid
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Not clear; Thick/dense; Confused; disturbed
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Pneumatics
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Branch of physics that deals with mechanical properties of air and gas
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Esker
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A ridge formed by glacial stream
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Brass
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Alloy; Consists of copper and zinc
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Pewter
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Alloy; Consists of tin and lead
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Cowcatcher
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Immediately precedes a locomotive
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Denouement
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Outcome or resolution; Climax immediately precedes denouement
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Catamaran
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Raft
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Termagant
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Shrew; Violent
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Sycophant
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Brown-noser, flatterer, parasite
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Contumacious
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Rebellious; inflexible; defiant
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Renegade
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One who rejects lawful or conventional behavior
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Obsequious
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Subservient; Submissive; Subordinate
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Dowser
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Divines the presence of water or minerals by means of a rod
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Geomancer
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Divines by means of geographical features or configurations
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Safari
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Swahili ;Means journey
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Salaam
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Arabic greeting
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Pedestal
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Architectural support or base that raises something up from the ground
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Stalagmite
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Deposits of calcium corbonate formed by the dripping of calcareous water in a cave
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Bona Fide
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In good faith (Latin)
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In Toto
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In Full (Latin)
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Carte Blanche
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Blanket Permission (French)
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Avant-Garde
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Pioneer (French)
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Forbear
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To hold back or abstain; refrain
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Adumbrate
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predict; forecase; foreshadow
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Piscatorial
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meaning of or relating to fish
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Roman Numerals
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X(10)
M(1,000) I(1) C(100) |
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Diligent
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Unremitting; constant hard working
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Diametric
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Opposite
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Pallid
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blanched; pale
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Veracity
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Accuracy; truth; genuiness
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Amelia Earhart
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First women in aviation
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Nellie Bly
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First women journalist
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Newton
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Science
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Copernicus
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Science
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Minerva
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Daughter of Jupiter in Roman mythology
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Athena
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Daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology
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Puccini
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Created operas
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Balanchine
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Created ballets
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George Orwell & Aldous Huxley
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Wrote novels with heavy political content set in the future
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Garry Trudeau & Thomas Nast
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Gained fame as political cartoonists
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