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20 Cards in this Set
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Attrition
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Wearing down to weaken or destroy
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Baleful
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Threatening or forshadowing evil or tragic developments; deadly or sinister
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Bilateral
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Having two sides or parts
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Entourage
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The group following and attending to some important person
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Flail
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Move like a flail; thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
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Haggard
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Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
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Impunity
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Exemption from punishment or loss
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Somnolent
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Inclined to or marked by drowsiness
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Stoic
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Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
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Vanquish
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Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
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Abut
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Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
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Arable
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Capable of being farmed productively; tilled
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Askew
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Turned or twisted toward one side
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Gird
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Bind with something round or circular; prepare oneself for a military confrontation
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Gradation
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The act of arranging in grades
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Incise
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Make an incision into by carving or cutting
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Indigenous
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Originating where it is foundq
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Nurture
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Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child; help develop, help grow; provide with nourishment; bring up
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Orient
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The eastern hemisphere; determine one's position with reference to another point; lustrous, shiny, bright
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Solstice
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Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
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