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37 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse |
Too difficult to understand |
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Arbitrate |
Reach an authoritative judgement or settlement |
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Boorish |
Rough and bad mannered. Coarse |
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Carbuncle |
A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin |
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Chivalry |
The medevil nightly system with its religious moral and code |
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Choleric |
Bad tempered or irratable |
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Ecclesiast |
A member of the Athenian ecclesia |
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Entreaty |
An earnest or humble request |
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Felicity |
Intense happiness |
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Frugal |
Sparing Ior economical with regard to money or food |
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Gallant |
Brave heroic |
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Glib |
Fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow |
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Heathen |
A person who does not belong to a widely held religion |
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Hostelry |
An inn |
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Lanyard |
A rope threaded through a pair of dead eyes used to adjust the tension in the rigging of a sail vessel |
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Motley |
Traditional costume for a jester or fool |
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Lecherous |
Having or showing excessive or affensive sexual desire |
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Pestilence |
A fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague |
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Solicitous |
Characterized by or showing interest or concern |
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Scurrility |
Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of ruining their reputation |
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Taffeta |
A fine luxurious silk or similar synthetic fabric with a crisp texture |
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Wanton |
Cruel or violent attack deliberate and unprovoked |
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Victuals |
Food or provisions |
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Repletion |
The condition of being abundantly supplied or filled |
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Timorous |
Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or lack of self confidence |
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Prattle |
Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way |
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Apoplexy |
Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a hemorrhage or stroke |
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Superfluity |
An unnecessary or excessively large amount or number of something |
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Bumpkin |
An unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside |
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Paramour |
A liver, especially the illicit lover of a married person |
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Whelp |
A puppy |
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Debonair |
Confident, stylish, and charming |
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Scanty |
Small or insufficient in quantity or amount |
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Blackgaurdly |
A rude or unscrupulous person |
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Lascivious |
Feeling or revealing an overt and often excissive sexual desire |
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Perjury |
The offensive of willingly lying after takikg an oath in court |
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Ribaldry |
Talking about sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way |