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94 Cards in this Set
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Condone
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Excuse or overlook or seem to approve
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Righteous
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Moral
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Repast
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Something taken as food
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Dogged
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Persistent or Perserving
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Faring
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Managing, getting along
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Siege
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A steady or prolonged attempt to gain control over a tone or other place
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Heresy
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An opinion or behavior that goes against the teaching of the dominant religion or belief system
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Precariously
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dangerously or depending on uncertain circumstances
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Reconnaissance
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Investigative and explorative,m usually for military purposes
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Apprehensive
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Fearful or anxious
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Amble
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Walk or move slowly
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Obstinante
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Stubborn
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Sullenly
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Gloomily or Crabbily
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Imminent
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Ready to take place or happen
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Recrimination
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A return charge against an accuser
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Indolence
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Laziness
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Demagogue
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A person who apples to the emotions and prejudices of people in order to arouse discontent and advance his or her own political purpose
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Agitate
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To stir up
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Pragmatic
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Concerned with practical rather than intellectual or artistic matters
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Disparate
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Very different, unique
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Formidable
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Causing fear or dread
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Untenable
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Not able to defend
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Knave
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unethical, untrustworthy, or dishonest person
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Mitigation
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Act of making something less severe
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Scruple
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A sense of guilt felt when one does wrong
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Curate
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Clergyman, assistant to parish priest
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Requite
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To repay, retaliate
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Plight
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To pledge
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Beguile
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To deceive
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Dissemble
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to conceal or disguise
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Usurp
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To seize wrongfully
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Peruse
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To read slowly and carefully
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Covetous
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Greedy
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Contentious
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Always ready to fight or argue
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Indigenous
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Native or originating in a region
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Auspicious
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Favorable or promising for the future
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Begrudge
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Feel resentment about or disapproval of someone else having something
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Ominous
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Threatening or sinister
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Venerable
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Impressive in age or historic associations
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Dispel
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Drive out
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Acriminous
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Bitter or nasty
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Umbrage
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Offense or Insult
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Nondescript
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dull or having no interesting qualities
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Cynical
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Antisocial or unfriendly or expecting the worst
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Adamant
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Firm or Insistent
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Corroborating
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Support with evidence
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Haggard
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Worn,tired or fatigued
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Edict
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Command, law or proclamation
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Truncheon
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Club used as a weapon
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Hermetically
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In as isolated solitary or airtight
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Abominable
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Vile, horrible, or monstrous
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Knell
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The sound of a bell, often signaling a funeral or the end ofsoemthing
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Plaintive
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Sad, mournful, or melancholy
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Emaciated
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Abnormally skinny due to disease or starvation
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Mangle
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To injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting tearing, or crushing
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Tenacity
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Persistence
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Deprivation
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Lack of what is needed for existence
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Solemn
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Serious
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Appendange
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Projecting part of an animal or plant body, especially an arm or leg
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Desperation
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Loss of hope and a surrender to misery
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Avenge
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To punish in retaliation for an injury or offense
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Venture
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Attempt or risk
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Immolation
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To destroy or kill as a sacrificial victim, usually by fire
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Afflicted
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Suffering or caused pain
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Surpass
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Exceed or go beyond
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Compounded
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Added to or combined
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Surge
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To rise suddenly to an excessive or abnormal value
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Tumultuously
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Riotously or with a violent commotion
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Resilient
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Able to bounce back or recover
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Abatement
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To lessen or stop
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Motley
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Composed of carious often unlike kinds or parts
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Abjure
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To give up, abandon, or reject
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Whet
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Sharpen
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Upbraid
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Scold
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Laudable
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Worthy of praise
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Pedant
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One who overvalues petty details of book learning, grammar etc.
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Acquit
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Settle as with a debt;declare innocent
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Implacable
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Not to be mitigated
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Approbation
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Praise
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Penance
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The act of making up for an offence
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Incense
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To cause extreme anger
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Condescended
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Agreed to do something that you believe to be beneath your dignity
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Contemptuos
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The feeling that someone or something is beneath you or is worthless
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Indignantly
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Angrily
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Devoid
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Completely Without
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Prerogative
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Exclusive right, privilege, or choice
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Altercation
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Fight or heated argument
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Feral
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Wild Savage, or animalistic
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Indiscriminately
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Arbitrarily, haphazardly, or randomly
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Mysticism
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Spirituality or direct communication with or knowledge of God
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Prominent
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Famous or oustanding
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Decree
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Ruling or official announcement
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Indeterminate
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Vague or not definite
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Privation
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Deprivation or disposession
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