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12 Cards in this Set
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Plundered
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Took goods by force;looted
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Squall
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brief, violent storm
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dispatched
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finished quickly
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mammoth
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enormous
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titanic
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of great size or strength
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assuage
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calm; pacify
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bereft
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deprived
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ardor
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passion; enthusiam
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insidious
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characterized by treachery
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helium
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a light colorless inert gaseous element found especially in natural gases and used chiefly for inflating airships and balloons, in lamps, in cryogenic research, and as a component of inert atmospheres (as in welding)
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Trojan horse
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someone or something intended to defeat or subvert from within usually by deceptive means
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calypso
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a sea nymph in Homer's Odyssey who keeps Odysseus seven years on the island of Ogygia
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