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26 Cards in this Set
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contumacy
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to resist authority
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convivial
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to be good company,friendly, and agreeable
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indomitable
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not to be tamed or dominated;unconquerable
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millennium
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1000 years; a period of peace and prosperity
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emasculate
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to deprive of pride and masculine vigor and spirit
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digress
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to turn aside; ADD
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kaleidoscope
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optical instrument containing bits of colored object arranged in a slow moving tube
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jargon
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unintelligible and meaningless talk; vocabulary peculiar to a particular profession, trade, or group
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humor
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fluids; mood or frame of mind
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phlegmatic
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sluggish
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melancholy
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sad
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sanguine
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happy
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choleric
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grouchy; bad mood
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aberrant
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departure from normal or particular course
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aberration
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mental state
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animosity
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active display or ill-will or hatred
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antemeridian
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A.M.
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postmeridian
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P.M.
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ecumenical
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universal; christian church worldwide
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travail
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pain, anguish, suffering
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pernicious
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tending to cause serious injury or death
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nostrum
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cure for all ill; remedy; panacea
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epitaph
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written inscriptions found on gravestones
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feckless
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lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective,careless, or irresponsible
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splenetic
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ill tempered, peevish, spiteful, irritable, melacholy
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pusillanimous
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lacking in courage or resolution; cowardly
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