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35 Cards in this Set
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saga
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heroic story
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imperturbable
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calm
steady serene |
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Saga
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heroic story
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belated
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late
delayed |
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decrepit
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broken down
worn out |
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imperturbable
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calm
steady serene |
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vacillate
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hesitate
fluctuate |
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abhor
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to detest
to despise |
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absurd
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ridiculuous
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bigot
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a person who is intolerant of other people or ideas
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contemptuous
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expressing a feeling that something is worthless
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universal
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present everywhere
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anthropologist
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an expert int he study of the races, beleifs, customs, etc of mankind
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artifact
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an object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature
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bizarre
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odd
peculiar strange weird |
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fetish
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an object that is thought to have magic powers
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inanimate
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lifeless
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dispersed
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scattered
spread broken up |
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eruption
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bursting out
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puny
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weak
unimportant |
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imperative
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urgent
necessary compulsory |
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imprudent
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unwise
not careful |
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prohibition
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the act of forbidding certain behavior
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taboo
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forbidden by custom or religious practice
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taint
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contamination
undesirable substance that spoils something |
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imperative
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urgent
necessary compulsory |
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imprudent
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unwise
not careful |
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prohibition
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the act of forbidding certain behavior
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taboo
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forbidden by custom or religious practice
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taint
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contamination
undesirable substance that spoils something |
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flagrant
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outrageous
glaring badly punish verbally |
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admonish
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to war
to reprove |
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duress
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compulsion
force under stress/force |
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culprit
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the guilty person
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inexorable
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inflexible
unrelenting out in the open |
