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50 Cards in this Set
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volition |
act of making a choice |
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reconnaissance |
gaining info about enemy or potential enemy; checking out situation before taking action |
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finicky |
giving careful attention to detail, hard to please, excessively concerned with details |
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incendiary |
capable of catching fire spontaneously, tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
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hedonistic |
devoted to pleasure |
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proprietor |
business owner |
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convivial |
occupied w/ or fond of the pleasures of good company |
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xenophobic |
having an abnormal fear or hatred of strange/foreign |
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solicitous |
full of anxiety/concern |
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miasm |
unwholesome atmosphere |
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paroxysm |
sudden outburst |
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atavistic |
return of a trait after a period of absence typical of an ancestral form, due to genetic recombination |
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charred |
scorched |
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prefecture |
district administered or governed by a prefect or leader |
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putrescence |
decomposed, rotten, foul smelling matter |
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stupefied |
with senses dulled by amazement |
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succinct |
short, to the point |
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suppurated |
full of pus |
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contusions |
bruises |
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moribound |
about to die |
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solicitous |
showing care, attention or concern |
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breviary |
book containing psalms, readings, prayers, etc... |
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extricate |
set free, release or disentangle (from a net, difficulty..) |
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incapacitated |
unable to engage in normal activity, disabled |
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brackish |
unpleasant taste, nauseating |
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grotesque |
distortions, striking incongruities in appearance, shape or manner, bizarre |
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prostrate |
lying flat |
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raze |
tear down completely, level to ground, demolish |
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stave |
staff, stick, rod, pole used for walking |
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credence |
belief, especially in report, testimony of another |
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chastise |
punish or severely criticize |
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dwindle |
make or become less into little remains |
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lavish |
extravagant, give in abundance |
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prophetic |
speaking or predicting as if by divine intervention |
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surmise |
infer w/ little evidence, guess |
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trifle |
something of little importance or value |
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wrought |
shaped, created |
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foul |
highly offensive, arousing diversion or disgust |
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vantage |
place or situation affording some advantage (comprehensive view or perspective) |
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harbinger |
precedes/indicates approach of something/someone |
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allegiance |
loyalty to cause or nation |
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carousing |
acting boisterously or loudly as if drunk |
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dire |
indicating trouble or disaster, urgent |
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lechery |
lewd or vulgar behavior |
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palpable |
able to be touched or felt, tangible |
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quenched |
to put out, extinguished |
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sacrilegious |
grossly disrespectful of what is sacred |
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gall |
digestive juice, poisonous acid (gall bladder) |
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stealthy |
quiet, caution, secrecy taking pain to avoid observed |
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prate |
speak about unimportant matters, rapidly, no end |
