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37 Cards in this Set

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Abstruse

Too difficult to understand

Arbitrate

Reach an authoritative judgement or settlement

Boorish

Rough and bad mannered. Coarse

Carbuncle

A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin

Chivalry

The medevil nightly system with its religious moral and code

Choleric

Bad tempered or irratable

Ecclesiast

A member of the Athenian ecclesia

Entreaty

An earnest or humble request

Felicity

Intense happiness

Frugal

Sparing Ior economical with regard to money or food

Gallant

Brave heroic

Glib

Fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

Heathen

A person who does not belong to a widely held religion

Hostelry

An inn

Lanyard

A rope threaded through a pair of dead eyes used to adjust the tension in the rigging of a sail vessel

Motley

Traditional costume for a jester or fool

Lecherous

Having or showing excessive or affensive sexual desire

Pestilence

A fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague

Solicitous

Characterized by or showing interest or concern

Scurrility

Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of ruining their reputation

Taffeta

A fine luxurious silk or similar synthetic fabric with a crisp texture

Wanton

Cruel or violent attack deliberate and unprovoked

Victuals

Food or provisions

Repletion

The condition of being abundantly supplied or filled

Timorous

Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or lack of self confidence

Prattle

Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way

Apoplexy

Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a hemorrhage or stroke

Superfluity

An unnecessary or excessively large amount or number of something

Bumpkin

An unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside

Paramour

A liver, especially the illicit lover of a married person

Whelp

A puppy

Debonair

Confident, stylish, and charming

Scanty

Small or insufficient in quantity or amount

Blackgaurdly

A rude or unscrupulous person

Lascivious

Feeling or revealing an overt and often excissive sexual desire

Perjury

The offensive of willingly lying after takikg an oath in court

Ribaldry

Talking about sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way