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50 Cards in this Set
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To advance.
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Progression
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To dissolve or disappear.
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Disintegrate
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Carried out with intense violence and an apparent desire to inflict serious harm.
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Vicious
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Punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense.
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Vengeance
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To shake or tremble uncontrollably from a reaction such as cold, fear, or disgust.
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Shudder
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Sticking out.
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Protruding
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Tactful and sympathetic in relation to the feelings of others.
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Sensitive
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To move by argument.
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Persuading
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To make void (as an act) by action.
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Rescind
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A method of analyzing psychic phenomena and treating emotional disorders.
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Psychoanalysis
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The cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation.
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Vivisection
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To enroll into service by compulsion.
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Conscript
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Doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness.
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Ambiguous
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Amusement or laughter.
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Mirth
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To be covered or lost from sight.
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Submerge
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An abrupt rolling or pitching.
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Lurched
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Strong moral character or strength.
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Honor
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To cause somebody to feel lost or confused, especially with regard to direction or position.
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Disorientation
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Somebody who breaks away from or who is in favor of breaking away from a group, organization, or country.
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Separatism
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A list of computer data constructed and maintained on a first in, first out basis; a line of people.
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Queue
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Unable or unwilling to believe something or completely unconvinced by it.
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Incredulous
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Able to be shaped and bent; easily influenced.
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Malleable
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If something is opaque, it does not let light through. It is the opposite of translucent.
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Opaque
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A sacred word of friendship (peace be to you).
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Salaam
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The condition of being unknown.
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Obscurity
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Dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional.
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Contingent
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An agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
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Rendezvous
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Extremely strong and active, physically or mentally.
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Vigorously
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Incapable of being disentangled, undone, loosed, or solved.
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Inextricably
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To go around or bypass.
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Circumvent
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A wall-like construction on a vessel.
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Bulkhead
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Frail/weak.
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Feeble
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Companions.
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Cronies
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The tip, point, or vertex; summit.
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Apex
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Rowdy; disorderly.
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Raucous
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Having or exercising great power or influence.
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Potent
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A dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
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Vertigo
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A formal written request for something needed.
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Requisitioning
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Childishly foolish; immature or trivial.
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Puerile
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Dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever.
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Deftly
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Boldly resistant or challenging.
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Defiant
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To free or release from entanglement; disengage.
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Extricated
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A person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause.
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Martyr
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A breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
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Chasm
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To cause to die or lose consciousness by impairing normal breathing, as by gas or other noxious agents; choke; suffocate; smother.
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Asphyxiate
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Deserving to be despised; contemptible.
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Despicable
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Any enjoyment in being cruel.
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Sadism
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Just before, after, or facing.
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Adjacent
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To form. (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.)
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Conceive
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Not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted.
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Inexhaustible
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