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38 Cards in this Set
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alacrity
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cheerfull willingness, liveliness
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volition
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will
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apogee
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highest point farthest point from the earth in orbit of a heavenly body
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eminent
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standing out; famous
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precipitous
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hasty, rash
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abject
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deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched
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nadir
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lowest point
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plumb
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get to the bottom of
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filial
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of or like a son or daughter
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gentility
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good manners
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nepotism
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favoritism to relatives by those in power
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progeny
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offspring; children
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fusty
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stale-smelling; musty; moldy
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noisome
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offensive smell; harmfull
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rancid
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unpleasent to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
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archaic
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no longer used, except in a special context- old fasioned
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callow
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young and inexpirienced
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crone
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withered old woman
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inveterate
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deep rooted
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matriarch
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mother and ruler of a family or tribe
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nonage
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legal minority; period before maturity
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primordial
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first in order; primary; existing at the very begining
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puerile
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foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish
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superannuated
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retired on a pension; very old
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venerable
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worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, or historical importance
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking; abstinent
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sot
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person made foolish by excessive drinking
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doldrums
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calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator
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flotsam
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wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea
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jetsam
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goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
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carrion
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decaying flesh of a carcass
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dross
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waste
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offal
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waste parts of a butchered animal; garbage
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sloven
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person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless in dress
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squalor
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filth
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contiguous
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touching; ajointing
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juxapose
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put side by side
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propinquity
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kinship
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