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20 Cards in this Set
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Adapt
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To adjust or change to suit conditions
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Attest
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To bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine
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Dovetail
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to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; (n) a carpentry figure resembling a doves tail
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Enormity
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The quality of exceeding all moral bounds, an exceedingly evil act, huge size, immensity
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Falter
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to hesitate, stumble, lose courage, to speak hesitatingly, to lose drive, weaken, decline
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Foreboding
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A warning or feeling that something bad will happen; (adj.) marked by fear
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Forlorn
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Totally abandoned and helpless, sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless
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Haughty
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Chilling proud and scornful
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Impediment
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A physical defect, a hindrance, obstacle
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Imperative
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Necessary, urgent, (n) a form of a verb expressing a command, that which in necessary or required
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Loiter
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To linger in an aimless way, hang around
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Malinger
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To pretend illness to avoid duty or work
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Pithy
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Short but full of meaning and point
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Plunder
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To rob by force, especially during war time; to seize wrongfully (n) property stolen by force, booty
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Simper
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To smile or speak in a silly forced way; (n) a silly, forced smile
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Steadfast
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Firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing
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Vaunted
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Much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way
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Vilify
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To abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously
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Waif
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a person (usually a child) with out a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance
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Wry
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Twisted, turned to one side,
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