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15 Cards in this Set
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Accost
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confront boldly
to approach with a greeting, question, or remark |
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Adamant
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Utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urging
Too hard to cut, break, or pierce |
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Bastion
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a fortified place
anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition |
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Cloister
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A place of religious seclusion, as a monastery or convent
an quiet secluded place |
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Destitute
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without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter
deprived of, devoid of, or lacking of |
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faction
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a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization or the like
party strife and intrigue, dissension |
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flotsam
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the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water
material or refuse floating on water useless or unimportant items; odds and ends a vagrant, penniless population |
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glib
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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so
easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners |
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misgiving
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to give doubt or apprehension to
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plethora
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overabundance; excess
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Prosaic
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common place or dull; matter of fact or unimaginative:
of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry |
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Skirmish
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a fight between small bodies of troops, advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies
any brisk conflict or encounter |
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straggle
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to stray from the road, course, or line of march to wander about in a scattered fashion; ramble to spread or be spread in a scattered fashion or at irregular intervals
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wraith
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an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
a visible spirit |
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zenith
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the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer
the upper region of the sky highest point above the observers horizon attained by a celestial body |
