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68 Cards in this Set
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Innards |
Internal Organs |
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Adept |
Thoroughly Proficient, Highly Skilled |
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Libation |
The Pouring of a Liquid Offering |
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Delving |
Making a careful or detailed search for information |
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Rashly
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Marked by or proceeding from undue haste or lack of deliberation or caution
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Harangued |
Addressed a ranting speech to a public assembly |
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Comply |
To conform or adapt one's actions to meet another's wishes |
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Seething |
Churning or Foaming as if boiling |
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Wily |
Full of tricks or strategems |
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Craven |
Lacking the Least bit of Courage |
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Broached |
Pierced in order to draw contents |
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Lustral |
Intended to Purify |
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Wheeted |
Sharpened by rubbing on or with something |
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Impetuous |
Marked by force and violence of movement |
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Swilling |
Drinking great amounts of |
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Squandered |
Spent Extravagently or Foolishly |
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Mortified |
Subjected to severe embarrassment |
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Reparations |
The Act of Making Amends |
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Guile |
Deceitful, Cunning |
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Shroud |
A Burial Gament |
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Ultimatum |
A Final Proposition |
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Portent |
Something that Foreshadows a coming event |
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Fraught |
Well Supplied or provided with |
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Codger |
an often mildly eccentric and usually elderly fellow |
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Goading |
Inciting or Rousing as if with a pointed Rod |
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Doddering |
Trembling or Shaking from weakness or age |
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Pernicious |
Highly Injurious or Destructive |
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Suave |
Smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
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Supple |
Capable of being bent or folded without creases, cracks, or breaks |
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Burnished |
made shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
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Staid |
Marked by settled sedateness
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Lavish |
to expend or bestow with profusion |
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Bard |
A tribal poet-singer |
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Prelude |
an introductory performance, action, or event |
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Thwart |
To oppose successfully |
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Carousing |
Engaging in drunken or wild merrymaking |
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Brazen |
Marked by contemptuous boldness |
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Chafing |
Feeling Irritated |
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Misgivings |
Feelings of doubt or suspicion |
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Conscientious |
Meticulous, careful, and painstaking |
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Ravines |
Small narrow steep-sided valleys |
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Illustrious |
Notably or brilliantly outstanding |
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Ewes |
Female Sheep |
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Relentless |
Showing or promising no no abatement of severity |
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Pondered |
Weighed in the mind |
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Shrouding |
Cutting off from view |
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Indulge |
To give free rein to |
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Mulled |
Wine: Mixed Thoroughly Thought: Considered at Length |
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Ardor |
An often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
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Insolent |
Insultingly Contemptuous in speech or conduct |
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Overweening |
Arrogant, Presumptuous |
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Slaked |
Lessened the Force of |
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Tact |
A keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense |
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Circumspect |
Careful to consider all circumstances |
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Entranced |
Put into a trance |
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Anguish |
Extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
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Fortified |
Made Strong |
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Indignation |
Anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
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Intrigue |
A secret Scheme |
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Pine |
To Yearn Intensely and Persistently |
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Tempered |
Having the elements mixed |
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Adze |
Cutting tool that has a thin arched blade |
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Brine |
Water of a sea or lake |
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Pell-Mell |
In confused haste |
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Esteemed |
regarded highly and prized |
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Chaff |
The seed coverings |
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Flayed |
Stripped off the skin |
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Suppliant |
One who makes humble entreaty or request |