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59 Cards in this Set
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autoplatsy
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Taking a part of the body and transplatning it to another part of the body
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Byzantine
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Applying to the dome style architecture of Byzantine. Istanbul which stands on the site of old Constantinople
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chartreuse
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yellowish green
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donnybrook
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free for all
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Easter Island
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Island off the coast of Chile which contains large statue heads
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fantods
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State of nervous irratibility
Half circle window with sash bars |
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Guy Fawkes Day
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Commemorates failure of Fawks to blow up the King and Parliament on November 5, 1603
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intractable
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Difficult to manage
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ligature
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Thread used by a surgeon to close vessels and ducts
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macron
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Horizontal dash used to indicate a stressed syllable
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minion
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henchman or mercenary
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Mrs. Grundy
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Extremely priggish person alluded to in a play
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Orangeman
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Member of a secret society in North Ireland founded in 1795 to maintain ascendency of Protestant Irish
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Satchel Paige
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American baseball player, first black pitcher
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redolent
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fragrant, suggestive of politics
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round robin
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petition or protect. Double elimination tournament
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smite
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to inflict a heavy blow on
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trivet
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Metal stand used under a hot plate
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Voltaire
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Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire). One of France's greatest philosophers
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Aloe vera
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soathing, moistourizing extract made from the leaves of aloe
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beriberi
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degenerative disease of the nerves
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credenza
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a buffet or a side of a board without legs
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Euphrates
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Major river of the middle east
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Gotham
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nickname for New York City
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hautboy
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oboe
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Inuit
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people of the Arctic or Greenland; eskimos
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jocose
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of a playful joking disposition
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lissome
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Slender and able to bend easily and gracefully
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mauve
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reddish purple
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niveous
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Resembling snow in color
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penuche
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fudge made from brown sugar, butter, milk, and nuts
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Quito
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capital of Ecuador
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regardant
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looking backward in profile
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savant
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wise or scholarly person
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tomnalley
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part of a lobster eaten as a delicacy; lobster's liver
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unduly
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To a great or excesive extent
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xylography
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a wood engraving of an early period
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yurt
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Circular domed portable tent used by nomands of Central Asia
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Zamboni
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Machine sed to clean the ice at a hockey game, by laying a thin layer of water on the ice so it freezes to form a new layer
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Attica
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City state of Athens in ancient Greece. Site of a prison in New York State
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Bannockburn
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Town of central Scotland north east of Glasgow
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chalice
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cup used to administer wine at a Catholic Mass
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denouement
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the solution to a plot
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emarginated
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having margin interrupte by a notch
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explicate
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Clarify the meaning of something
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fortitude
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power to endure pain
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geniculate
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having knee like joints
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heliotrope
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a plant that grows towards or away from sunlight
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ingress
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entrance
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lichen
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any of a varieety of mosslike fungoid plants
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mandrill
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large ferocious African Baboon
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obtrusive
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given to intruding; showy; distracting
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painted lady
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A widely distributed butterfly (Vanessa cardui) having brown, black, and orange markings
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pertussis
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whooping cough
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redress
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Set right or remedy
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saguaro
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giant cactus
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stipple
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mark with dots or a grained pattern
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torque
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Force tht causes rotation
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zepplin
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Dirigible balloon with a cigar shaped bag
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