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30 Cards in this Set
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Admonish
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to caution or advise something: to scold midly: to remind of a duty
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breach
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an opening, gap rupture, rift; a violation or infraction;verb; to creat an opening, break through
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brigand
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a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
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circumspect
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careful, cautious
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commandeer
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to seize for military orofficial use
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cumbersome
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clumsy, hard to handle
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deadlock
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a standstill resulting from the oppostion of two equal forces or fractions; to bring to such a standstill
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deris
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scattered fragments, wreckage
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diffuse
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to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, longwinded, or unfocused;scattered or widely spread
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dilemma
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a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
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efface
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to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
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muddle
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to make mess of; muddle through: to get by: a hopeless mess
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opinionated
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stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
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perennial
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lasting for a long time, persistent: a plant that lives for many years
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predispose
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to incline to beforehand
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relinquish
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to let go, give up
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salvage
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to save from fires or shipwreck: property thus saved
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spasmodic
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sudden and violent but brief: fitful, intermittent
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spurious
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not genuin, not true, not valid
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unbridled
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uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
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adjourn
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to stop proceedings temporarily;move to another place
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alien
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a citizen of another country; foreign, strange
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comely
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having a pleasing appearance
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compensate
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to make up for; to repay for services
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dissolute
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loose in one's morals or behaviors
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erratic
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not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinary expected; undependable
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expulsion
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the process of driving or forcing out
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feint
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a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; to ake a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of
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fodder
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food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose
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fortify
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to strenghten, build up
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