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20 Cards in this Set

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slack

(n.) negligent; weak
inundation
(n.) overwhelm or overflow

arbitrating

(v.) deciding a dispute

shrift

(n.) confession
orisons
(n.) prayers
solace
(n.) consolation; alleviation of grief or pain

beguiled

(v.) to lead by deception
pestilence
(n.) disease
presage
(n.) something that foreshadows a future event
penury
(n.) severe poverty
beseech
(v.) to beg for earnestly and anxiously

apothecary

(n.) one who sells and prepares drugs; druggist
aloof
(adj.) indifferent; removed or distant
obsequies
(n.) a funeral or burial rite
haughty
(adj.) disdainfully proud
peruse
(v.) to examine in detail; to study
interred
(v.) to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb
inauspicious
(adj.) not prosperous
contradict
(v.) to imply the opposite
ambiguities

(n.) uncertainty