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45 Cards in this Set
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Tart(ly)
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Mildly cutting, sarcastic or sharp; having sharp or stinging qualities
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Perpetrate
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to do or commit (a crime, fraud, trick or anything bad or foolish)
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Analogous
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similar in certain qualities, cirmumstances or uses; comparable
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entailment
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impose or require; to limit the passage of (an estate or land) to a specified line of heirs so that it cannot be passed to anyone else
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Quibble
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an unfair or petty evasion of the point or truth by suing words with a double meaning; a leagal quibble
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iniquity
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gross injustice or untighteousness; wickedness, sin; wicked or unjust act
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benevolence
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desire to promote the happiness of others; goodwill; kindly feeling; act of kindness; something good that is done; generous gift
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incipient
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at the beginning stages
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ubiquitous
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present everywhere; being everywhere at the same time
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venture
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a risky or daring undertaking; spectulation to make money; to expose to risk or danger; to dare to say or make
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rustic
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belonging to or suitable for he country; rural; simple, plain; rough or awkward; made of branches with the bark still on them; an awkward, unrefined, boorish person coming from the country
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prohibition
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act of forbidding; law or laws against making or selling alcoholic beverages; period between 1920 and 1933 when national prohibitation was in force in the US
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covet
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desire eagerly (something that belongs to another)
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meticulous
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extremely or excessively careful about details
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mollify
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soften in temper; calm, pacify; appease; mitigate
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unobtrusive
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inconspicuous; not inclined to put forward opinions
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking; moderate
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admonish
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to advise against, warn; scold gently, reprove
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indolent
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lazy, idle, disliking work
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zealous
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full of enthusiamsm, very eager, enthusiastic
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rigorous
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full of strictness or hardship; very stern or strict
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pagan
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heathen; not according to established religion; who worships many gods or no god
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equitable
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equal; impartially just; fair
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copious
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very plentiful, abundant
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superfluous
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extra, unneeded, excess
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reparation
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a giving of satisfaction or compensation for wrong or injury done
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supercilious
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haughty, proud, contemptuous; showing scorn or indifference because of a feeling of superiority
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negligible
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unimportant; insignificant; not worth regard
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intuitive
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able to understand truths facts, ect. without reasoning; perceptive
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invoke
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call on in prayer; appeal to for help or protection appeal to or ask earneslty
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nebulous
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hazy, vague, confused, cloud-like
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indigence
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extreme need poverty
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garrulous
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talkative, coluble, worky
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ululate
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to howl, lament loudly
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pinnacle
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high peak or peak; the highest point of
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paunch
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a large protruding belly
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entity
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being a thing in existence, that whisch has a real/seperate existence- actually or in the mind
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assimulate
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to take in and make part of oneself, absorb, digest; cause to be like the people of a nation in cusome, viewpoint, character
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brethren
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brothers, fellow members of a church, society, profession
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accost
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approach and speak to first, address
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articulate
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uttered in distinct syllables of words; able to puts one's thoughts into words easily and clearly; sonsisting of sections united by joints; to speak distincly; to express onself in words; to fit together in a joint
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jeer
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to make fun rudely/unkindly, to speak or treat derisively
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jetty
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a structure of stones or wooden piles projecting from shore to break the force of a current or waves; a landing lace; pier
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fervor
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great warmth or feeling; intense emotion; enthusiasm/earnestness
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duplicity
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secretly acting one way and openly acting in another in order to deceive; deceitfulness
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