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50 Cards in this Set
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The act of taking possession of something
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Acquisition
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Something unusual
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Anomaly
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With awareness of one's actions
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Consciously
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To reduce in value or strength
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Degrade
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Opening; a big difference in amount or quality
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Gap
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Beyond doubt; unquestionable
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Indisputable
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To come between
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Intervene
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By means of a natural sense about things that are hard to observe
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Intuitively
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To move back or away from
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Recede
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To bring or get back
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Retrieve
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Believing that humans cannot know whether there is a god
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Agnostic
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The belief that the natural objects, such as trees, have souls
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Animism
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One who does not believe in the existence of a supreme being
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Atheist
- Atheistic (adj.) |
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To favor an opinion or a course of action
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Be inclined to
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To consider thoughtfully
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Contemplate
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To worship as a god
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Deify
- Deity (n.) |
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To praise or honor
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Exalt
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Having or exhibiting religious reverence
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Pious
- Piety, piousness (n.) |
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Anything offered to a deity as a religious thanksgiving; giving up something in order to have something more valuable later on
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Sacrifice
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Relating to church
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Ecclesiastical
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To make worse; to anger or intensify
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Aggravate
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Weakened or worn out because of age, illness or excensive use
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Decrepit
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an unhealthful condition caused by an infection or a long term physical problem
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Disease
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Causing death or disaster
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Fatally
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The use of science and technology to investigate fact in criminal cases
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Forensics
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To continue to exist; to hold to a purpose, despite any obstacle
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Persist
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An educated guess of how something will develop, espcially a disease
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Prognosis
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Locatied at an end; approaching deatch
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Terminal
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Any of the tubes that form a branching system, especially those that carry blod to the heart
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Vein
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To inflict an injury on
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Wound
- Wound (n.) |
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Techniques for reducing sensation and feeling, especially to control pain
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Anesthesia
- Anesthesia and anesthetic are often used interchangeably |
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To make bigger or better by adding to
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Augment
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In manner that is officially recognized
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Certifiably
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A factor that makes something more difficult or complex
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Complication
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To restore health
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Cure
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To set in firmly; to insert in the body surgically
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Implant
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To insert a liquid by means of a syringe
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Inject
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Excessively overweight
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Obese
- Obesity (n.) |
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A specific way of performing or doing something
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Procedure
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A mark on the skin left after a would has healed; a lasting sign of damage
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Scar
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Related to the study of the position of stars, the sun and the planets in the belief that they influence earthly events
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Astrological
- Astrology (n.) |
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Foretelling the future by finding patterns in physical objects
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Divination
- Devine (v.) |
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To continually appear (in the form of a ghost) in the same place or to the same person
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Haunt
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Strong fear mixed with disgust
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Horror
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Acting as an agent between people or things
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Intermediary
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To call on for support
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Invoke
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To reflect; to think quietly and deeply for a long time
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Meditate
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A dimly visible form, usually thought to be the spirit of a dead person, a sunken ship etc.
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Phantom
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Relating to the supposed ability of the human mind to sense things that cannot be observed
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Psychic
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Having the power to renew oneself for an indefinite period of time
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Self-perpetuating
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