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10 Cards in this Set
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Reticent
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quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative
I don't know why Max is always so reticent |
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Travail
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Hard work; exhausting labor; agony
The travail in which the slaves went through shocked me |
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Opulence
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wealth, luxury, or abundance
some people have so much opulence in their lives |
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Arduous
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difficult, strenuous, or hard to achieve
backpacking is a very arduous task |
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Paltry
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practically worthless; petty; trifling;
for some people a dollar could be paltry, for others, it is the whole world |
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abduct
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to carry of by force
why did the butler abduct the girl? |
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tractable
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easily manage, taught or controlled
running a buisness is rarely tractable |
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obliterate
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to do away with or destroy; to blot out completely
I obliterated Kenneth in the race |
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prodigious
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extraordinary in size and amount; enormous
Bill Gates has a prodigious amount of money |
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Haughty
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having shown great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others
I do not know why she is so haughty, it really gets on my nerves |
