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18 Cards in this Set
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concocted |
to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery: |
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appending |
to attach or suspend as a pendant |
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memoir |
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge ofthem and based on personal observation. |
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astute |
of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: |
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satiric |
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing,or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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lunatic |
(no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insaneperson. |
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constitute |
to compose; form: |
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demented |
crazy; insane; mad. |
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nomenclature |
a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particularscience or art, by an individual or community, etc. |
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purportedly |
reputed or claimed; alleged: |
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appalling |
causing dismay or horror |
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spurious |
not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, orproper source; counterfeit. |
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perjury |
the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before acompetent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry. |
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sodomy |
anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex. |
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brethren |
fellow members. |
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prudent |
wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet orcircumspect; sober. |
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abscond |
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid captureand legal prosecution: |
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reprise |
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid captureand legal prosecution: |
