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40 Cards in this Set
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canonized
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to formally pronounce a saint
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galled
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to bruise and scratch
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mollified
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to pacify
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execrations
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a curse
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reproved
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to scold
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smite
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to allfict suddenly and powerfully
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sundry
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several, various
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succor
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assistance
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recompense
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reward/payment
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aforesaid
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previously mentioned
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beholden
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obliged
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skulking
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to move about stealthily
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prudence
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good judgment
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contrivance
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a device or plan
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abominable
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loathsome
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incensed
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to inflame or enrage
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omnipotent
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all powerful
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abhor
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to despise
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lamentable
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mournful
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pining
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to waste away through grife or longing
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dissuaded
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to persuade against an action
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admonishing
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to warn
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abate
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to reduce in amount or degree
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rectitude
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moral rightness
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avarice
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desire for wealth, greed
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precept
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a rule or principle
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procure
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to obtain
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eradicate
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to uproot/remove completly
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incorrigible
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incapable of reform
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posterity
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a person's descendants
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insidious
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working/ spreading harmfully in a subtle way
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subjugation
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to make slave of
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prostated
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fallen/ lying flat
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delusive
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flase
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extenuate
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to minimize the seriousness of
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perfidy
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willful betrayal of fidelity/trust
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incur
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to cause to happen to oneself
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redress
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compensation for an injustice
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magnanimity
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nobility of spirt
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prnury
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poverty
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