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32 Cards in this Set
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cease-fire
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temporary end to fighting
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delectation
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delight
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adjournment
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a temporary suspension
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excoriation
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a bitter denunciation
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hostilities
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warlike activites
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quarantine
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to isolate
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proceedings
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activites or events
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ration
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share
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artillery
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firearms
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rapt
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fascinated
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reckoning
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estimation or calculation
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derisive
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mocking
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convent
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place where nuns live
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unscrupulous
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having no morals
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impudence
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cockiness
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flurry
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quick sprinkling of snow
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fecundity
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the ability to reproduce
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innovative
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highly original
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cloister
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to cut off from the world
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deviation
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departure from norm
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unfeasible
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impossible
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altercation
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noisy, angry agrument
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maniacal
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frantic, characterized by madness
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diatribe
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a long, bitter speech
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delineation
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outline or sketch
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glut
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oversupply
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refutation
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act of proving something wrong
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sequester
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to set apart
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interlocutor
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someone who takes part in a conversation
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emendation
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a correction
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disputant
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someone who argues
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putrefaction
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state of being rotton
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