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10 Cards in this Set
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(n) a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often nused in plural); anything that confines or restrains; (v) to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent
(s) bond, restraint, bind, hamper (a) free, liberate, emancipate |
fett'er
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(adj) very wicked, offensive, hateful
(s) evil, odious, abominable, outrageous (a) excellent, wonderful, splendid |
he'inous
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(adj) not subject to change, constant
(s) unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable (a) changeable, inconcent, variable, fickle |
immu'table
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(n) one who rebels or rises against authority; (adj) rising in revolt, refusing to accept, authority, surging or rushing in or on
(s) revolutionary, rebllious, mutinous (a) loylist, loyal, faithful |
insur'gent
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(n) a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., fair in excess of reality
(s) delsions of grandeur (a) humiltity, modesty, self abasement |
megaloma'nia
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(n) a position requiring little or no workl; an easy job
(s) "no show" job, cushy job, "plum" |
si'necure
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(adj) steathly, secert, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
(s) furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed (a) open, frank, aboveboard, overt |
surreptitio'us
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(v) to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law
(s) overstep, exceed, trespass, err (a) obey, toe the line |
transgress'
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(v) to change from one nature, substancem or form to another
(s) transform, convert, translate, metamorphose (a) maintain, unchanged, perserve |
transmute'
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(adj) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
(s) surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand (a) real, actual, firsthand |
vicar'ious
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