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27 Cards in this Set
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Besmirched
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(adj.) - stained; sullied
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Blunderbuss
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(n.) - an old-fashioned gun
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Cadaverous
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(adj.) - like a dead body
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Capitulate
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(v.) - to stop resisting
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Contraband
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(adj.) - forbidden
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Discompose
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(v.) - to disturb
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Doleful
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(adj.) - sorrowful
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Eddying
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(adj.) - swirling
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Emaciated
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(adj.) – abnormally thin
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Epoch
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(n.) – an era
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Expeditiously
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(adv.) – promptly and efficiently
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Expostulation
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(n.) – an objection
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Feign
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(v.) – to pretend, to fake
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Genial
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(adj.) – cheerful
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Inscrutable
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(adj.) – hard to understand
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Insensible
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(adj.) – emotionally unresponsive
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Mutinous
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(adj.) – rebellious
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Myriad
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(n.) – a great number
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Nondescript
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adj.) – having no distinctive qualities
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Postilion
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(n.) – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage
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Provender
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(n.) – the provisions
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Requisition
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(n.) – a demand
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Retinue
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(n.) – the followers
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Sagacity
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(n.) – wisdom
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Substratum
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(n.) – supporting layer
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Turnkey
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(n.) – a jailer
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Unfathomable
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(adj.) – impossible to see the bottom; impossible to imagine/comprehend
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