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25 Cards in this Set
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incarcerate
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to lock up/confine
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opulence
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wealth
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rococo
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elaborately detailed artistic or musical style; intricately ornate
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jaundiced
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revealing an attitude of unpleasantness
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facile
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easily done
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menial
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lowly, subservient
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querulous
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complaining, faultfinding
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abet
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to help in or to encourage a bad act
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bellicose
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looking for a fight
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posthumous
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occurring after death
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anathema
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a curse or formal ban
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chaste
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pure and innocent
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eminence
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importance or prominence
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postulate
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an assumed truth
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bellwether
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a leader- one who will take charge
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rostrum
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a raised stage or platform
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hapless
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unlucky
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quell
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to crush/overwhelm
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opprobrium
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infamy (public shame following bad conduct)
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incantation
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a written or spoken spell
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aberration
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something straying from normal/accepted
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anachronism
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a thing out of place in time
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convivial
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lively/spirited
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deviate
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to vary from the standard
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jaunty
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lively or cheerful in manner
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