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20 Cards in this Set
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Ignominy
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Public Disgrace
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Circumvent
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To Avoid
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Malingering
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To pretend to be sick
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Aspersions
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a damaging false remark
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Remonstrate
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To protest
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Prognosis
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A forecast
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Adjured
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To ask earnestly
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Abscond
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To run away
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Maligned
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Evil
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Ethereal
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Delicate
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Extort
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To obtain by threats or force
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Reprisals
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Retaliation
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Elicit
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To evoke
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Taciturn
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Quiet
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Fiascoes
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A complete or ridiculous failure
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Biennial
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Occuring every two years
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Emaciate
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To make unnaturally thin
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Longevity
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Long life
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Capricious
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Changing quickly wihtout reason
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Equivocal
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Questionable
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