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90 Cards in this Set
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dignity
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respect, social class
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grudge
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hatred thats long lasting
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mutiny
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revoly or rebellion against authority
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civil
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within your country, within your territory
humane, gentle |
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toil
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hardwork, exaggerated acting
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bucklers
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small shields
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carry COALS
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suffer humiliation patiently
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colliers
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carriers of coal
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collar
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the hangmans noose
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moved
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provoked
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stand
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to stands one's ground
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quench
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to put out or extinguish
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pernicious
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causing harm or ruin, injuries, hurtful
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forfeit
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a fine penalty, something to which the right is lost
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adversary
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a person group or force that opposes or attacks the opponent, enemy, or foe
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augmenting
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to make larger, increase
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tyrannous
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characteristic of a tyrant
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oppression
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the exercise of authority of power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
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transgression
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an act of violation or a law/command (break the law)
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purged
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love being purged...
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assailing
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attacking, assualting, violence
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anguish
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acute of distress, suffering, or pain
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fortnight
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14 days and nights. or 2 weeks
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idle
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not working or active
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knaves
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a male servant
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quench
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to satisfy
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forswear
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to deny under oath (lie under oath)
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scorn
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to look down on, to think you are better than
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solemnity
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a formal occasion
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disparagement
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to look down on, embaress, humiluate
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endure
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to put up with, to tolerate
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profane
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to missuse somthing to put something/someone down. TO DISRESPECT
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shrine
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a statue of something holy
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pilgrims
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people who are travelnig for religous reasons
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palmers
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people who are returning from the religous place
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prodigious
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amazing, wonderful, huge
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loathed
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hated
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gapes
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desires eagerly
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beloved
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greatly loved, dear to the heart
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conjure
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raise up a spirit but invoking its proper name
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discourses
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communication of thought by words. formal discussion og a subject in speech or writing
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peril
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exposure to injury, loss, or destruction
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enmity
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hatred
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prorogued
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to post pone
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perjuries
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the willful giving of flase testimony under oath or affirmation
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idoltary
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the religous worship of idols
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procure
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to obtain or get by care, or the use of special means
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beseech
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to improve urgently. to beg eagerly
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feign
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act as if
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unwieldy
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not wieldy, wielded with difficulty, not readily handeled or managed
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triumph
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the act, fact, or condition of being victorious
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confounds
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destroys
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moderately
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kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits
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pheaton
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the son of Pheobus, allowed to drive the chariot of the sun but unable to control the horses
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amorous
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inclined or disposed to love, sexual love
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tedious
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long and boring
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deceit
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the act or practice of decieving
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lamentation
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which might have provoked ordinary mourning
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beguiled
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your hopes are cheated, decieved,
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blaze
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make public
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reconcile
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to cause a person to accept or be resigned to something not desired
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sojourn
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a temp. stay
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revel
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to take great pleasure or delight
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jocund
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cheerful, merry , glad
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venge
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to avenge
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abhors
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to regard with extreme repugnance
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wreak
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avenge
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prudence
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to be cautious with regard to practical matters
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forsworn
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ill not take back my words
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stealth
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secret, a future departure or entrance
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excels
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to be superior to
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absolved
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forgiven
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inundation
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to flood, to overwhelm
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pensive
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sad
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sucrease
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cease
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inconstant [toy]
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whim that interferes with your firmness of purpose
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defy
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to challenge the power of
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penury
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extreme poverty
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pestilence
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plague
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obsequies
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a funeral or ceremony
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haughty
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snobbish, arrogent
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peruse
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to through with carefullness
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ensign
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military flag or banner
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inauspicious
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boding ill, unfavorable
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sepulcher
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tomb, grave or burial place
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contagion
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a disease so communicated
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thwarted
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to oppse successfully
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betrothed
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engaged to be married
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scourge
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a whip or lash
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jointure
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the present given the to the bride by the grooms family
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