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40 Cards in this Set
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Skullduggery |
trickery; underhandedness |
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Ancillary |
helping; providing assistance; subordinate |
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Sedentary |
characterized by or requiring much sitting; accustomed to little exercise |
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Cursory |
rapid and superficial; preformed with haste and scant attention to detail |
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Predatory |
victimizing or destroying others for one's own gain; pillaging |
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Symmetry |
exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line |
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Tawdry |
gaudy and cheap in appearance or nature |
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Ambulatory |
of or for walking; capable of walking |
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Idolatry |
bling or excessive devotion to something |
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Pecuniary |
consisting of or relating to money |
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Panorama |
an unbroken view of a wide area |
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Saga |
a long story, often telling the history of a family |
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Plethora |
a state of excessive fullness; superabundance |
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Gradient |
a rate of inclination; a slope |
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Adherent |
a follower of a leader; supporter |
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Vent |
a means of escape or release; an outlet; a small hole |
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Armament |
military supplies and weapons; the process of arming for war |
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Presentiment |
a sense that something is about to occur; a premonition |
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Corpulent |
fat; obese |
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Circumvent |
to surround; enclose; bypass |
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Atone |
to make amends |
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Devoid |
entirely without; lacking |
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Replete |
full or supplied to the utmost; gorge |
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Mammoth |
huge; gigantic |
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Baleful |
threatening; hurtful; malignant; ominous |
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Diminution |
the act or process of diminishing; reduction |
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Purblind |
having poor vision; nearly or partly blind |
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Ethereal |
very light; airy; delicate; heavenly |
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Lackadaisical |
showing lack of interest; listless |
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Bland |
lacking flavor or zest; dull |
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Cascade |
a waterfall; anything resembling a waterfall |
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Palisade |
a fortification of timbers set in the ground; an extended cliff |
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Fusillade |
a rapid outburst or barrage |
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Parable |
a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson |
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Paradigm |
a pattern that serves as a model or example |
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Patriarch |
the leader of a family or tribe |
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Maladroit |
clumsy; inept |
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Malaise |
a vague feeling of bodily discomfort as at the beginning of an illness |
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Malice |
a desire or intention to harm others or see them suffer |
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Malodor |
a bad odor |
