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20 Cards in this Set
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rusticate
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to stay in the country;
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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gambit
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a move that will provide advantage later
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incursion
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temporary invasion
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leonine
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like a lion
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natation
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swimming
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plaintive
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expressing sorrow; mournful
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encomiastic
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praising; eulogistic
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extricate
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to disentangle;
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mulct
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defraud a person of something; to swindle
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nebulous
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vague; hazy; cloudy
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behoove
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be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary
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awl
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pointed tool used for piercing
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conscript
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draftee; person forced into military service
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decorum
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propriety; orderliness
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decrepitude
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state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age
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detraction
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slandering; aspersion
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pernicious
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very harmful
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pertinacious
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holding tenaciously to an action; stubborn; persistent
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rapacious
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voracious; ravenous; taking everything one can; excessively grasping; plundering; subsisting on live prey
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