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41 Cards in this Set
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Bombast |
puffed up; pompous |
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Preferment |
Promotion |
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Obsequious |
fawning; showing servile compliance |
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Lascivious |
lecherous |
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Deluding |
Deceiving |
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Promulgate |
officially announce |
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Beguiled |
diverted; taken away, charmed, or delighted |
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Surfeited |
fed to excess |
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Tempest |
violent storm |
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Base |
common; low in station |
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Satiety |
the condition of being overfilled or over gratified |
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Requisites |
requirements |
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Impediment |
something in the way; a hindrance |
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Egregiously |
conspicuously offensively |
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Perdition |
total ruin; damnation |
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Shrift |
confessional |
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Beseech |
earnestly request |
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Wooed |
courted, dated |
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Conspire |
secretly plot |
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Importunity |
repeated requests |
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Castigation |
punishment; criticism |
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Advocation |
A cause or path of actions |
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Suborned |
induced to commit a bad action or perjury |
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Mars |
damages; marks |
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Peril |
danger |
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Anon |
soon |
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Fie |
used to express distaste or disapproval |
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Linger |
to be slow in learning |
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Pernicious |
deadly; destructive |
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Gratify |
reward; indulge; satisfy |
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Trifle |
something of little importance or value |
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Dismayed |
having lost courage |
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Credulous |
guillible |
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Reproach |
criticism; disgrace; blame; shame |
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Wit |
intelligence; humor |
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Iniquity |
Sin(s) |
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Expostulate |
reason earnestly |
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Mandate |
command; official instruction |
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Bawdy |
vulgar; humorously coarse |
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Insinuating |
introducing an idea subtlety |
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Incontinent |
uncontrolled; unrestrained |
