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29 Cards in this Set
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(v) to manage cleverly
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contrive
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(n) an ingenious or artiful trick
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artifice
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(n) a person's decendants
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posterity
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(v) to degrade
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demean
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(v) to make easier
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facilitate
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(n) happiness
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felicity
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(n) a contract in which one person is bound to work for another for a specified period of time
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indenture
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(v) to reduce in amount or degree
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abate
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(n) wealth
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affluence
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(adj) difficult; strenuous
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arduous
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(v) t uproot, remove completely
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eradicate
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(adj) based on guess work
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speculative
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(n) desire for wealth, greed
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avarice
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(adj) incapable of reform
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incorrigible
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(adj) existing as a characteristic quality; inborn
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inherent
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(v) to erase
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expunge
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(v)to refuse to support
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disavow
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(adj) impermanent; temperary
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transient
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(v) to give up officially
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abdicate
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(v) to comply without protest
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acquiesce
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(n) the act of taking possession by force
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unsurpation
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(n) trechery
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perfidy
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(adj) unable to be removed or transferred
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inalienable
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(v) to demonstrate plainly
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evince
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(v) to tempt
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allure
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(n) tyranny
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despotism
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(n) un unjustifiable claim
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pretension
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(v) to compel or force
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constrain
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(n) nobility of spirit
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magnanimity
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