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15 Cards in this Set
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To approach and speak to first
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Accost
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reproof
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Animadversion
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Intensely eager
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Avid
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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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Brackish
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Swiftness
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Celerity
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Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course
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Devious
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In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice
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Gambit
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Serene
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Halcyon
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pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artificial
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Histrionic
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Deliberately setting or causing fires
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Incendiary
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a whirlpool of great size and violence and destruction
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Maelstrom
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nearsighted
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myopic
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open, not hidden
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overt
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tending to make worse
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pejorative
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the state of being proper, appropriateness
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propriety
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