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27 Cards in this Set
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besmirched
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stained; sullied
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blunderbuss
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an old-fashioned gun
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cadaverous
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like a dead body
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capitulate
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to stop resisting
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contraband
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forbidden
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discompose
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to disturb
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doleful
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sorrowful
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eddying
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swirling
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emaciated
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abnormally thin
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epoch
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an era
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expeditiously
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promptly and efficiently
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expostulation
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an objection
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feign
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to pretend, to fake
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genial
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cheerful
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inscrutable
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hard to understand
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insensible
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emotionally unresponsive
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mutinous
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rebellious
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myriad
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a great number
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nondescript
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having no distinctive qualities
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postilion
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a driver of a horse-drawn carriage
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provender
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the provisions
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requisition
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a demand
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retinue
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the followers
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sagacity
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wisdom
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substratum
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supporting layer
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turnkey
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a jailer
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unfathomable
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impossible to see the bottom; impossible to imagine/comprehend
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