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52 Cards in this Set
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juxtapose
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to place side by side
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plight
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predicament, dangerous situation
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convert
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secret, hidden
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cope
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to be a match for, to be able to handle
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incompatibility
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quality of being mismated, lack of harmony
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incapacitated
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disabled, made unfit
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connubial
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related to marriage
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demur
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to object
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appellation
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a name
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escalation
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an increase, intensification
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indifference
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lack of concern
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potential
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possible
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cumulative
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accumulated
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recondite
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secret, hidden
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palliate
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alleviate, relieve without curing
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prelude
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introduction
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delude
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to fool
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chimerical
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visionary, imaginary, fantastic
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acknowledge
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admit
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heterogeneous
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dissimilar
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malajusted
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poorly adjusted, diturbed
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gamut
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range
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perspicacious
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acutelt perceptive, shrewd
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analogous
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comparable, similar
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mortality
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death
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susceptible
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easily afftected, unusually liable
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neurotic
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suffering from a nervous disorder
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pedagogue
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teacher
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enunciate
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to utter, proclaim
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inordinate
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excessive
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irascible
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irritable
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introspective
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looking into one's own feeling
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perpetuate
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to cause to continue
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mandate
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an authoritative order or command
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compensatory
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serving to pay back
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neutralize
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to counteract
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catastrophic
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disastrous
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anthropologist
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an expert in the study of races, beliefs, customs of mankind
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artifact
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an object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature
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fetish
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an object that is thought to have magic powers
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inanimate
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lifeless
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imperative
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urgent, necessary, compulsory
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imprudent
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unwise, not careful
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prohibition
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the act of forbidding certain behavior
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taboo
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forbidden by custom or religious practice
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taint
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contamination, undesirable substance that spolls something
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abhor
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to detest, to despise
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bigot
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a person who is untolerant of other people or ideas
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universal
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present everywhere
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vulnerable
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capaple of being injured
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entreaty
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appeal, plea
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inviolable
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safe from destruction
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