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20 Cards in this Set
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Acrimonious |
stinging biting hostile |
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Bovine |
Cow-like, sluggish, dull, slow |
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Consternation |
dismay, confusion |
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disavow |
to deny responsibility for or connection with |
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dispassionate |
impartial, unbiased, detached |
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dissension |
disagreement, discord |
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dissipate |
to disappear, disperse, diffuse or to spend foolishly, to be extravagant in the pursuit of pleasure |
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corpulent |
fat, poorly |
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expurgate |
to purify, purge |
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gauntlet |
an armored or protective glove, a challenge/dare, two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them |
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hypothetical |
based of assumption or guess |
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ignoble |
mean, low, inferior, unworthy |
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impugn |
to call into question, to attack as being false |
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intemperate |
lacking self control, excessive |
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odium |
disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
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perfidy |
treachery, betrayal |
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relegate |
to place in a lower position |
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squemish |
inclined to nausea, easily shocked |
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subservient |
subordinate |
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susceptible |
open to attack |
