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38 Cards in this Set
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impotent
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powerless
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imprecation
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curse
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jocular
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humorous, lighthearted
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legerdemain
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sleight of hand
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petr
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stone
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plic
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fold, bend
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pon
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place, put
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pos
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place, put
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prehend
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take, grasp
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machination
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evil design or plan
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macroscopic
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visible to the naked eye
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maelstrom
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whirpool; turbulence
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malleable
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capable of being changed
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martinet
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strick disciplinarian
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masochist
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one who enjoys his or her own pain and suffering
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mendacious
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lying
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meretricious
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attractive in a cheap, flashy way
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milieu
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environment, setting
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miscreant
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vicious person
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malapropism
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word humorously misused
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necromancy
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magic, especially that practiced by a witch
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nihilism
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totaly rejection of established laws
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neologism
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use of a new word
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prot
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first
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sequ, secut
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follow
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sent, sens
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feel, think
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sist
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place, stand
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juxtapose
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to place side by side for comparison
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kinectic
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pertaining to motion
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kismet
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destiny
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labyrinth
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complicated network of winding passages
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laconic
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using few words
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lambent
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softly bright or radiant
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languid
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sluggish
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knell
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sound made by a bell rung slowly for a death or funeral
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lachrymose
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tearful, weepy
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lascivious
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lustful or lewd; inciting sexual desire
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libertine
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one who leads an immoral life
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