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100 Cards in this Set

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Haggard

Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt

Plaintive

Expressing sorrow; mournful or

Mirth

Happiness or enjoyment, especially accompanied by laughter

Prowess

Extraordinary valor and ability in combat

Amiss

Incorrect, inappropriate, or not as it should be

Capricious

Tending to make sudden unexpected changes

Idleness

Laziness characterized by an unwilligness to do any work

Incipient

Beginning to appear or develop

Abomination

Something that is immoral, disgusting, or shameful

Mearge

Unsatisfactory in quality, substance, or size

Atone

To make reperation for a sin or a mistake

Provoke

Made to feel angry or indiginant

Repentant

Sorry; recognizing you have done something wrong

Deftly

Moving ir acting in a quick, smooth, and skillful way

Arduous

Requaring hard work or continuous physical effort

Poigant

Causeing a sharp sence if sasness, pity, or regret

Tentative

Said or done in a slow, hesitant, and careful way that reveals a lack of cinfidence

Subdue

To bring a person or group of peoplenunder control using force

Taunt

Pulled or stretched tightly

Miscalculation

A mistake or misstep in a plan

Kindled

Set something alight, or began to burn

Feign

People or things that foreshadow or anticipate a future event

Emissary

An agent or representitive sent on a particular mission

Rebuked

Criticized or reprimanded somebody, usually sharplyn

Harbingers

To make a show or pretense of something

Copiously

In large quantites

Expelled

Pushed or drove something out with force

Threshold

A doorway or entrance

Suitor

A man who is truing to persuade a woman to marry him

Haggle

To argue over something such as a price or contract in order to reach an agreement

Audacity

Darei mg or willingness to challenge assumptions or conventions or tackle something difficult or dangerous

Devoid

Completly lacking in something

Listless

Lacking energy, intrest, or the willingness to make an effort

Communal

Relating to communities or to living in communities

Pandemonium

A wild uproar; tumult

Esoteric

Intended for or understood by only an initiated few

Approbation

Approval or praise

Delectable

Having a delicious taste

Consolations

A source of comfort to somebody who is upset or disappointed

Vigor

Great physical or mental strength and energy

Tripods

Frames or stand with three legs that are usually collapsible, used for supporting something

Closefisted

Reluctant to spend money

Sediment

To cry of sorrow and grief

Lamentation

A cry of sorrow and grief

Tremulous

Shaking, trembling, or quavering, e.g. from fear to nervousness

Infirm

Lacking strength and vitality because of sickness or age

Rites

A solemn ceremony or procedure customary to a community, especially a religious group

Tumult

A violent or noisy commotion

Inadvertent

Done unintentionally or without thinking

Calamity

A disasteous situation or event

Refuge

A place, or sometimes a person, ofdering protection or safe shelter from something

Requisite

Necessary or appropriate for a specific purpose

Banished

Exiled from a place

Fugitives

Persons who flee from justice, enemies, or brutual treatment

Beckoning

Signaling to somebody to approach with a movement of the hand or head

Ominous

Suggestive or indicating that something bad is going to happened or be revealed

Converts

A place, or something a person, offering protecting or safe shelter from something

Benevolently

In a manner that shows kindness or goodwill

Enthralled

Fascinated and giving total attention to something

Parched

Completly lacking in moisture because of hot conditions or lack of rainfall

Perserved

Persisted steadily or in a action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite problems or difficulties

Sinister

Wicked, evil, or criminal

Infant

In a early stage of development

Impudent

Showing a lack of respect and excessive boldness

Perturbed

Disturbed or troubled

Miscreant

Somebody who behaves in a dishonest , malicioud, or otherwise contemptible way

Annihilation

The complete destruction of something

Degenerate

Withiut the strength or power to do anything effective or helpful

Impotent

Regarded as immortal or corrupt

Revered

Regarded with admiration and deep respect

Flourish

Of low social postion

Amends

Reperatiob or compensation

Resilent

Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions

Buoyant

Cheerful or optimistic

Arrogant

Feeling or showing self-importance and cintempt or disregard for others

Mean

In Christian belief, a divine ordering or managment of affairs and events in the world

Dispensation

A fanfare heralding the arrival of an important person

Restrain

To prevent somebody somebody or yourself from doing something

Expediant

Appropriete, advisible, or useful in a situation that requires action

Prestige

Honor,awe,or high opinion inspired by or derived from a high-ranking, influential, or succesful person or product

Sacraments

In Christianity, a rite that is considered to have been established by Jesus Christ to bring grace to those participating in or recieving it

Desecrated

Damaged, as something sacred

Uninitiated

Having no experiance or knowledge of something

Imminent

About to happen; threatening to happen

Discordant

Consisting ofnsounds, usually musical notes, that are harsh, unpleasent, or clashing

Pacified

Calmed, as somebody who is angry or agitated

Dominion

The lack governed by a ruler

Pauper

An impoverished person

Sonorous

Sounding with loud, deep,and clear tones

Appeal

An earnest or urgent request to somebody for soemthing

Astir

Involving great excitment, confusion, and emotional,agitation

Warder

A prison officer

Derived

Obtained from a source; came from a source

Orator

Somebody skilled in giving formal, ceremonial, or persuasive public addresses

Sacrilege

The disrespectful or irrevernt treatment of something other people consider worthy of respect ir reverence

Tumultuous

Awake and moving around, especially out of bed

Superflous

In excess of what is needed

Resolute

Possessing determination and purposefulness

Primitive

Crudely simple in design or construction

Pacification

The act of forcibly suppressing or eliminating a population considered to be hostile; the act of bringing peace to an otherwise unruly district