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25 Cards in this Set
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Compassionate |
having or showing sympathetic consciousness of others distress together with desire to alleviate it |
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Entice |
to attract artfully by arousing hope or desire; tempt |
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Unfathomable |
Impossible to comprehend |
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Pious |
divine to worship; deity and devotion |
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Raiment |
clothing; garments |
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Devastating |
bringing to ruin,desolation,disorder helplessness |
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Reluctant |
feeling or showing aversion, hesitation, or unwillingness |
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Lofty |
superior; elevated in status; at a great height |
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Barren |
incapable of producing offspring; desolate; fruitless |
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Appeal |
to make an earnest request; to arouse a sympathetic response |
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Chasm |
a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (as the earth) |
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Tyranny |
oppressive power; a government in which absolute power is vested is a single person |
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Devour |
to eat up greedily or ravenously |
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Melancholy |
(adj) dismal; rejected; sad; (n) depression of mind or spirit |
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Ecstasy |
a state of being beyond reason and self-control |
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Perpetually |
continuing forever; everlasting; occurring continually |
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Disgorge |
vomit; to discharge by throat or mouth |
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Incalculable |
uncertain; not capable of being calculated |
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Garland
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a circular of spiral arrangement of intertwined material (as flowers or leaves) |
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Exultant |
filled with or expressing great joy or triumph; elated; jubilant |
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Reveler |
one who engages in noisy partying or merrymaking |
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Intolerable |
unbearable; nor capable of being endured |
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Luxuriant |
of the finest and richest kind; lush |
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Abundant |
marked by great plenty; amply supplied |
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Inflict |
to cause something unpleasant to be endured |
