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59 Cards in this Set
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Bewail
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To show deep regret
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Destitute
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Without resources
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Detract
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To take away
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Emancipate
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To set free from slavery
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Extol
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To praise highly
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Flamboyant
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Unrestarined
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Impetus
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A driving force
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Insuperable
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Incapable of being defeated
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Intermittent
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Not continuous
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Maxim
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A short saying
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Obligatory
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Required
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Plumb
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To measure the depth of water
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Vagabond
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A wandering person
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Visage
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a face that expresses feeling
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Wheedle
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To coax
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Alacrity
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Promtness in responding
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Array
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A large group of people or things
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Deduce
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To make a conclusion
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Encumber
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To weight down
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Fraught
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Accompanied by
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Haphazard
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Marked by a order
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Incontrovertable
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Unquestionable
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Inexplicable
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Hard to explain
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Ingenious
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Marked by imagination
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Laggard
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One who is lazy
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Sustenence
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Something that needs food to live
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Torrid
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Intensly hot or dry
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Traverse
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To pass over
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Ubiquitous
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Appearring in large numbers
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Zenith
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The highest point
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Allude
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To refer in a direct way
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Consecrate
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To set apart as holy
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Disseminate
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To spread wildly
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Dote
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To show fondness for
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Exhort
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To urge strongly
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Feckless
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Careless
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Implicate
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To be involved with something
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Lament
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To express grief
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Pensive
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Deep in thought
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Pomp
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A showy display
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Stilted
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Artificially stiff
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Subjugate
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To conquer
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Trauma
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A severe body injury
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Wanton
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Ignoring what is right
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Adage
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A true old saying
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Camaraderie
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Good feelings with friends
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Contend
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To struggle with
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Extraneous
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Irrelevant
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Hubbub
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Noisy confusion
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Meander
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To follow a winding course
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Odoriferous
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Giving off a smell
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Paraphernalia
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Personal belongings
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Punctilious
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Careful of
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Recuperate
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To regain health
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Regale
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To delight
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Sedentary
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Doing a lot of sitting
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Spartan
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Lack of luxury
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Temporal
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Relating to the everyday world
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Wry
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Turned or bent
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