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28 Cards in this Set
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Quell
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To put down forcibly
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Rebuke
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To criticize
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Singular
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Unique or one of a kind
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Amendable
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agreeable
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Peremptory
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Imperative
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Efficacy
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Effectiveness
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Requital
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Return
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Retribution
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punishment
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Progenitor
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Forefather
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Sumptuary
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regulating personal behavior
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Plebeian
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Crude or vulgar
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Manifold
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Having many forms
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Sable
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Dark or somber
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Emolument
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Payment for services rendered
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Commiseration
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expression of sorrow for the distress of another person
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Superfluous
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Extra or unnnecessary
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Insidious
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treacherous
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Guise
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Outward appearence
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Imbue
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to saturate
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Mutability
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changeablility
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Prolific
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fertile
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Caprice
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an impulsive change of mind
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Scourge
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a whip used to inflict punishment
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Revile
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to use abusive language
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Emnity
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Hatred
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Dearth
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scarcity or lack of
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Deportment
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behavior
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Abyss
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a bottomless pit; hell
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