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39 Cards in this Set
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Ambled
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To Walk Slowly
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Amiable
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friendly
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Apothecary
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early form of a pharmacist
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Assuaged
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to lessen or calm
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Auspicious
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favorable
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Beadle
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a minor city official
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Bretheren
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members of a church
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Compromise
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an agreement where each person agrees to give up something
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Contemptuous
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to feel that someone is beneath you
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Contentious
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always ready to argue or fight
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Corset
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a ladies undergarment
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Chattels
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slaves
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Dictum
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a formal statement of principle
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Diminutive
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smaller than ordinary
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Dissaprobation
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dissaproval
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Discernible
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understandable
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Dispensation
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a release from an obligation or promise
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Domicile
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place where a person lives
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Eaves
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lower edges of a roof
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Erratic
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irregular
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Fractious
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mean or cross
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Foray
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to go somewhere unusual
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Impotent
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powerless
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Malevolent
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evil
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Melancholy
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sad or gloomy
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Onslaught
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a violent attack
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Piety
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devotion to religious duties
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Predilection
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a preferred way of doing something
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Persevere
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to carry on in spite of difficulties
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Strictures
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conditions or rules
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Taciturn
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almost always silent
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Tranquility
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peacefulness
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Unsullied
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Untouched or unused
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Veranda
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a portico or porch with a roof
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harbored
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to hold in the mind
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tentative
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to be hesitant or unsure
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alist
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tilted to one side
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trosseau
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all the new clothes a bride brings with her into a new marriage
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tarried
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delayed; waited
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