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45 Cards in this Set
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Expounding
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Explaining carefully and in great detail
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Recondite
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Deep and difficult
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Fecundity
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Inventiveness;fruitful
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provincial
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unsophisticated; having a limited outlook and restricted intrests
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transitory
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temporary; fleeting; short lived
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ingeniour
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original and inventive
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anachronism
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something out of plave in time; calculator in ice age
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cadger
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a carrier or huckster
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Nebuchadnezzar
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An important king of Babylon who conquered Jerusalem and lived from 605-562 B.C
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ancedotes
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short accounts of incidents
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switchback
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a zigzag road
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scaffolding
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a temporary platform or floor used to build something else
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incontEnter away message text here.inently
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wildly uncontrollably
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verdigris
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a green of bluish color formed by deposits of copper carbonates on cetain metallic surgfae
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temerity
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overconfidense; foolhardiness
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parapet
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a low wall or railiing to protect the edge of a platform,roof, or bridge
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posterity
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future generations; offspring
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colossal
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huge
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dilapidated
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decaying, shabby
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frugivorous
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fruit eating
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gesticulated
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motioned or signed
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repugnance
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etreme dislike; revulsion
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occidental
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of european ancestry; Western
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indolent
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lazy; resisting activity
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ramifications
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consequences
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degeneration
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extreme decline; descent to a lower level
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pallid
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lacking color; pale
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nemesis
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formidable(strong) and often victorious opponenet
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Thames
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an important rives which runs through Longdon
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Preternaturally
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primitively, as though instincts
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Acacia
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a kind of tree
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imperceptible
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unable to be detected or seen
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gaunt
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very thing; hollow-cheeked
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camphor
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a gummy, fragrant chemical compund from the wood and bark of camphor trees
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clamity
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catastrophe; disaster
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insidious
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harmful but subtle and enticing; treacherous
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atrocious
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extremely nasty; evil
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succulent
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juicy and fres
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exultation
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rejoicing
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outflanked
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overcome by superior numbers of tactics
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blundering
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stumbling akwardly
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uncanny
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weird strange
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thrice
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three times
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abominations
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extremely horrible beiings or acts
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steadfastly
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loyal; faithfully
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