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20 Cards in this Set
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1. slack
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(n.) negligent; weak
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2. inundation
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(n.) overwhelm or overflow
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3. arbitrating |
(v.) deciding a dispute
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4. shrift
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(n.) confession
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5. orisons
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(n.) prayers
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6. solace
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(n.) consolation; alleviation of grief or pain
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7. beguiled
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(v.) to lead by deception
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8. pestilence
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(n.) disease
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9. presage
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(n.) something that foreshadows a future event
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10.penury
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(n.) severe poverty
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11.beseech
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(v.) to beg for earnestly and anxiously
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12.apothecary
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(n.) one who sells and prepares drugs; druggist
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13.aloof
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(adj.) indifferent; removed or distant
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14.obsequies
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(n.) a funeral or burial rite
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15.haughty
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(adj.) disdainfully proud
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16.peruse
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(v.) to examine in detail; to study
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17.interred
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(v.) to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb
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18.inauspicious
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(adj.) not prosperous
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19.contradict
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(v.) to imply the opposite
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20.ambiguities
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(n.) uncertainty |
