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29 Cards in this Set
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indomitable
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not willing to accept defeat; brave
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swain
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a young man who is in love
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recidivist
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a person who continues to commit crime even after punishment
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fester
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to become badly infected; to become worse because of a past failure
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personable
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attractive to other people because of having a pleasant appearance and character
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verbiage
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excessive wordiness
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drab
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without interest and color; dull and boring
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pang
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a sudden strong feeling of physical or emotional pain
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beset
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to affect someone or something in an unpleasant or harmful way
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fleet
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moving quickly
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regimented
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involving strict discipline; arranged into strict groupd
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technocracy
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a social or political system in which people with scientific knowledge have a lot of power
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retribution
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severe punishment for something seriously wrong that someone has done
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drudgery
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hard boring work
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genealogy
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the study of family history
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pantomime
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the use of expressions to recount
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strew
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to cover a surface with things; to be spread or lying over a surface
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footloose
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free to go where one likes or do what one wants because one has no responsibilities; carefree
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infatuated
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having an unreasoning passion or attraction
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tendentious
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expressing a strong opinion that people are likely to disagree with; arrogant
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extremity
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the furthest point, end, or limit of something
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earshot
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too far away to hear someone or something or to be heard; near enough to hear someone or be heard
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compatriot
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a person who was born in, or is a citizen of, the same country as someone else
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basin
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a round bowl for holding liquids; a place where the earth's surface is lower than in other areas of the world
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cloister
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a covered passage with arches around a square garden; life in a convent or monastery
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revulsion
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a strong feeling of disgust or horror
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almanac
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a book annually published that informs
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gadfly
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a person who annoys or criticizes other people in order to make them do something
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corollary
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a situation, an argument or a fact that is the natural and direct result of another one
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