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15 Cards in this Set
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Adjacent |
near or next to: adjoining |
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Beset |
to surround or to attack repeatedly |
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Cede |
to give up or transfer, especially by treaty or formal agreement |
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Circuitous |
Roundabout: indirect |
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Desultory |
Proceeding or carried out in an aimless or random way |
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Galvalize |
to excite or arouse action |
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Implement |
a tool or instrument: to carry out |
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Inconsequential |
Lacking importance or worth; unable to make impact; trival |
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Magnitude |
greatness of size, power, or influence |
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Materialize |
to become real or actual; to appear in physical |
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Muster |
a gathering, usually of military forces; to summon or call forth; to gather |
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Prohibitive |
serving to restrain action or discourage use of |
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Reminisce |
(v)to think or talk about ones past (adj) suggestive of something else |
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Vanguard |
the leading or forward position in a movement |
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Visionary |
a person who is given to ideas that are not currently realistic; a dreamer; able to see what might be accomplished in the future. |
