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35 Cards in this Set
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affront
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verb to offend or insult someone openly or intentionally
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antic
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noun, amusing or eccentric behavior
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appurtenance
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noun, an accompart or feature of something; something added to another
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arras
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noun, a tapestry used as a wall hanging
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behoove
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verb to be right and proper for somebody
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circumscribe
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to draw a line around
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conjure
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verb to summon supernatural forces
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contrive
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verb, to devise a plan in a creative manner
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expostulate
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to express disagreement or approval
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extant
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adj, still in existence
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fetter
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noun, something that serves to restrict
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importune
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verb, to ask someone continually for something
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jocund
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adj cheerful and good humor
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judicious
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adj, showing wisdom, good sense of direction
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lewd
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adj, sexual in an offensive way
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libertine
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noun related esp,. to a man who acts immortal way
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molt
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to shed feathers, hair, feathers
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obsequious
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adj excessively eager to please
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offal
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noun something discarded as refuse;regarded as unpalatable
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orison
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noun a prayer
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preuse
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to read or examine something in a leisurely way
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portentous
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adjective very serious and signifigant; foreboding or ominous, esp in terms of future
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precept
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rules, instruction or principles that guides a person's actions
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primal
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adj, being first in time
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purgation
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act of purging, (to remove)
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rank
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noun status of relative to others (adj) to insult
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retrograde
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adj; moving backward in space or time
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sullied
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to spoil, tarnish, or detract
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surmise
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verb to infer something without sufficiently conluscive evidence
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tenable
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adj, with reasonable and sufficient evidence to support an assertion or arguement
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traduce
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verb to cause humilitation or disgrace by making malicious statements
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usurp
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verb to take possession without legal permission
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Wanton
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adj without restrain or inhibition without reason or porvocation
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wax
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verb to get into a particular or emotional state; to increase in power
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wont
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adjective; accustomed or likely to do something
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