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50 Cards in this Set
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Assauge
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To lessen or calm
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Piety
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Devotion to religious duties and practices
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Taciturn
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almost always silent
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Covey
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a group
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Entailment
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a legal situation regarding the use of inherited property
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Inddigenous
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belonging to a particular region or country
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Smilax
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a bright green twining vine, often used for holiday decorations
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Contemptuous
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having the feeling that someone or something is beneath you, that it or they are worthless
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Contentions
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always ready to argue or fight
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Diminutive
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smaller than ordinary
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Disapprobation
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disapproval
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Discernible
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understandable
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Dispensation
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a release from the obligation or promise
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Fractious
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mean or cross
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Haint
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a ghost or spirit; someone or something very scary
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Auspicious
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favorable
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Scuppernongs
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a sweet table grape, grown chiefly in the Southern US
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Asinine
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stupid; silly
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Edification
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education; instruction
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Quibbling
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a type of arguing where you avoid the main point by bringing up petty details
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Unsullied
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untouched or unused
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Collards
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a type of cabbage with very coarse leaves
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Kudzu
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a quick growing vine with large leaves, often found in the Southern US
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Waning
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becoming less bright, intense, or strong
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Cleaved
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stuck
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Whittle
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to use a knife to cut away thin shavings of wood
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Aberratuion
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a deviation or moving away from something that is normal
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Plaited
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braided
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Quell
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to overwhelm soomething until its powerless
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Ambrosia
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a dessert made up of a mixture of fruits, nuts and coconut
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Changelings
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a child secretly put in place of another
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Croon
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to sing in a low gentle town
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Donned
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put on
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Gallantly
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politely in the manner of a gentleman
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Gulie
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craftiness and cunning in dealing with others
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Hookah
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an oriental tobacco pipe with a flexible tube that draws smoke through a bowl of water
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Ingenuous
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simple; innocent
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Innate
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a natural part of something
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Obstreperous
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noisy and unruly
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Still
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an apparatus for making alcoholic liquors
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Tarried
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delayed; waited
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Trousseau
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all the new clothes a bride brings to her marriage
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Lineaments
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distinctive features or charachteristics
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Alist
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tilted to one side
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Corncribs
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small strictures used to store corn
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Gingerly
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carefully; cautiously
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Rudiments
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principles; elements; subjects to be learned
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Tartly
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sharply
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Apoplectic
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behaving as if one is on the verge of having a stroke
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Predilection
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a preference or a preferd way of doing something
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