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60 Cards in this Set
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Alliance |
A joining together for some common purpose |
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Bewilder |
To puzzle completly, confuse |
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Buffon |
A clown: a coarse, stupid person |
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Controversial |
Arousing agrument, dipute, or disagreement |
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Dishearten |
To discouarge |
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Fruitless |
not producing the desired results: unsuccessful |
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Hostile |
Unfriendly ; unfavorable ; warlike, aggressive |
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Inflammable |
Easy to set on fire ; easily angered or aroused |
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Inflict |
To give or cuase somthing unpleasent, impose |
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malignat |
Deadly, extremly harmful, evil ; spiteful, malicious |
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Mortify |
To hust someone's feelings deeply : to cause |
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Orthodox |
In agreement with established or generally aceppted beliefs or ways of doing things, |
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Procure |
To obtain through special effort ; to bring about |
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Scurry |
To run quickly, scamper, hurry |
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Sodden |
Soaked with liquid or moisture ; expressionless, dull ; spirtless, listless |
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Spirited |
full of life and vigpr ; courageous |
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Virtual |
Having a certain forse or effect in fact but not in name ; so close as to be equivlent ot the real thing |
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Void |
Completly empty ; to cancel or nullify |
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Wayward |
Disobedinet, willful ; unpredictable, capricious |
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Wince |
To drw baclk suddenly, as though in pain or fear ; the act of drawing back in this way |
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Anecodote |
A short account of an incident in someone's life |
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Consolidate |
To combine, unit ; to make solid or firm |
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Counterfiet |
An imitation designed to deceive ; not genuine, fake ; to make an illigal copy |
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Docile |
Easily tought, led, or managed ; obdient |
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Dominate |
To rule over by Strength or power, control ; to tower over |
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Entreat |
To beg, implore, to ask earnestly |
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Fallible |
Capable of being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate |
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Fickle |
liable to change very rapidly |
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Fugitive |
One who flees or runs away ; wanadering |
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Grimy |
very dirty, covered with soot |
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Iota |
a very small part or quanity |
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Maul |
to beat or knock about, handle roughly ; a heavy hammer |
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Potential |
Possible to happen ; become a reality |
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Radiant |
Shining, bright ; giving forth light or energy |
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Rural |
relating to farm areas and life in the country |
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Substantial |
Large, imprtant ; mot imagenary, material |
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Tackful |
Skilled in handiling difficult situations |
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Tamper |
to inferere with |
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Ultimate |
Most iportant or extreme |
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Uncertainty |
Doubt, the state of being unsure |
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Anoymous |
unamed |
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Browse |
to graze |
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Dupe |
easily trick |
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Dynamic |
active |
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Eradicate |
get rid of |
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Frustrate |
To cause of discouragement |
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Grim |
Fierce ; stern |
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inmitable |
can not be copied |
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Makeshift |
Temporary ; subsitute for somthing else |
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Marginal |
large, edg of magin |
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Pending |
waiting to be settled |
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prescribe |
to order for medical puroses |
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Prewiew |
to view before hand |
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Prominent |
important, well-known |
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Quaint |
skillfuly made |
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Reluctant |
unwilling, holding back |
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Scrimp |
to handle very economicaly or stinglily |
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Snare |
to trap, catch |
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Utmost |
the extreme limit |
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Vegance |
punishment for wrong |