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60 Cards in this Set
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Abstemious
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eating and drinking in moderation
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Brahma
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The God of creation in Hindhuism, also the first god of the triad
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Deprecatory
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Disapproving or critical; expressing critical remarks
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Enervate
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To weaken or distroy the vitality of someone or something
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Glower
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Look at someone with sullen anger
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Holocaust
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The mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis
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Jukes and Kalikaks
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Famous criminal families
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Loquacious
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Tending to talk a great deal
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Nonpareil
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Somebody or something without an equal
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Pisces
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A zodiac constellation of the northern hemisphere, the Fish
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Quotidian
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Of the most ordinary kind; occurring daily
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Scatology
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Vulgarlanguage related tone excretory functions as made famous in Gulliver's travels
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The seven virtues and vices
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Humility, meekness, charity, chastity, moderation, zeal, generosity
Pruide, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, avarice |
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Tarantula
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A large hairy spider that feeds on invertebrates and amphibians
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Usurp
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Seize something without the right to do so
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Verdi
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Itialin composer of operas includiang Traviata and Aida
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Wrought
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Made in a skillful or decorative way
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Xenolith
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A fragmant of rock that is different in origin from ingenous rocks in which it occurs
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Yarmulke
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A small round cap worn by Jewish males
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Zydeco
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A style of dance music originating in Louisiana
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Acumen
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The ability to make quick accurate judgments about situations or people
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Basque
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People of unknown origin living in Northwestern Spain
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Dendrochronology
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The study of the annual growth of tree rings as a way of dating wooden remains
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flagellate
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To whip someone for sexual or religous purposes
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Heimlich Manuever
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Emergency method for treating choking that uses an upward thrust below the chest to expel food from the wind pipe
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Impuissance
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Lack of power or effectiveness; weakness
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Jejune
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Boring or uninteresting; lacking maturity or sophistication
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Hat trick
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Three goals scored by the same player in a hockey game
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Malapropism
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Misuse of words through confustion with a similar sounding word
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Narwhal
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Small arctic whale about 20 feet long with a spotted body, short flippers, and a long ivory tusk
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Opthamology
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Branch of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of the eyes
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Parabola
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Curve formed the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side
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Rank and File
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Majority of a group, especially all of the members with no power
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Sacagawea
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Indian guide who went on Louis and Clark Expedition
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Snowbirds
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Elderly person who spends the winter in a warm climate
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Taj Mahal
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White marble masoleum in northern India, completed in memory of Mumtaz Mughal, the wife of emperor Shah Jahon
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Utopia
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Ideal and perfect place where everyone lives in harmony
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Variance
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Difference between expectations and results
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Vortex
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A whirling mass of somethings that draws everything towards its center
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Yin and Yang
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Yin is passive, dark, feminine, and associated with night
Yang is active, light, masculine and corresponds to day |
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Antebellum
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Before the Civil War
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Bowdlerize
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Remove parts of a literary work deemed indecent
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Virginia Dare
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First child of English parents to be born in America, but disappeared at the lost colony of Roanoke
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Fractious
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Irritable and likely to complain or misbehave
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Impalpable
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Not capable of being perceived by the senses
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Jenny Lind
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Famous Sweedish opera singer, alto, who was P.T Barnum's star attraction
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Lilliputian
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A person or thing that unusually small in height
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Metamorphosis
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A complete or marked transformation in physical form, substance, or structure
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Oxidize
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To combine or react with oxygen
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Parkinson's Law
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The observation that work always expands to fill the time allotted for it
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Paradigmatic
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Typical example of something
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Quagmired
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Caught in an awkward, complicated, or dangerous position with little hope of escape
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Reciproicity
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Mutual relationship between people involving the exchange of goods, sevices, favors especially between nations
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Reveille
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The sound of a bugle to awaken and summon military personel
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Scrimshaw
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A carved or engraved object in whale bones made originally by North American whalers
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Thermodynamics
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Branch of physics that deals with the conversion of energy and heat
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Verdure
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The green color associated with lush vegetation
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Wheedle
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To coax or persuade by flattery, guile, etc
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Yonapatawhpha
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Fictional county in Mississippi created by William Faulkner
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Zodiac
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Narrow band in the sky where the movements of major planets, sun, and moon take place
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