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46 Cards in this Set
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peripatetics
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relating to Aristotle's philosophies
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intangible
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nonmaterial
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entourage
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people accompanying a VIP
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talismans
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good luck charm
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heretical
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against mainstream religious views
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sumptuously
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splendid, magnificent
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proletariat
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working class
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diffident
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reserved or restrained
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pragmatic
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practical
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bier
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stand for a casket or body
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suffuse
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to spread over something
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aborigine
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native; original inhabitant
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prodigious
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sizable, marvelous, ominous
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emaciated
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very thin
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reticent
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reserved
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imperative
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necessary commanding
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frenetically
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frenzied, frantic
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purveyors
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commercial supplier of goods
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precipice
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high cliff or crag
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didactic
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fond of instructing others
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transcendental
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philosophy; not experienced, but knowable, religious mystical
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ignoramus
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an ignorant person
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pestilence
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epidemic of disease
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amatory
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associated
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tenuous
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weak and unconvincing
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tenacity
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with determination
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epochs
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historically significant period
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patina
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surface sheen; green layer on copper
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inscrutable
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mysterious; hard to interpret
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ostentatious
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rich and showy
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anteroom
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entry room; waiting room
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propitious
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favorably, kindly
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conjugal
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relating to marriage
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prosaic
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straightforward, relating to prose
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cloistered
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secluded; in a monastery
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impunity
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freedom from unpleasant consequences
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squalid
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neglected and dirty
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mitigate
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party exclude; lessen something
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ignominious
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shameful; despicable
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vestige
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remaining trace of something; slightest amount
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pachyderm
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large, think skinned animal (elephant)
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treatises
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detailed written account
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macabre
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horribly gruesome
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complicity
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involvement in wrongdoing
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languid
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sluggish, without energy
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embodied
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made tangible, personify
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