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27 Cards in this Set
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aver
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assert or affirm with confidence
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gossamer
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a fine filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air
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loon
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a crazy or simple-mided person
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prow
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the forepart of a boat
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sheen
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a soft luster, a glow
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shroud
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a cloth wrapping for a dead person
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slake
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to cool or refresh
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specter
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a ghost
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sultry
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passionate and attractive, hot and humid
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swoon
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to faint loose consciousness
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twain
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two
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veer
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change directions suddenly
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wretch
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hateful person
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blunderbuss
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a short musket or wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range
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carouse
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to engage in a drunken revel, to party wildly
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garret
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an attic, usually a small, wretched one
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gaunt
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extreamly thin and bony, haggard and drawn
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glib
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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly but shallow
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haggard
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exhausted and worn
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inscrutable
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incapable of being figured out, analyzed
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pecuniary
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consisting of money
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perturbation
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mental unease
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requisition
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official claim to the use of property or material
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sagacity
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wisdom
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squalid
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poor nasty place
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stilted
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stiffly dignified or formal, overly formal
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submissive
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confirming to the authority or will of others
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