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20 Cards in this Set
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Adjunct
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Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; (adj) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity
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Bellwether
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The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse, a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
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Fait accompli
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An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
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Hierarchy
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Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc
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Liturgy
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A religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship
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Mirage
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Something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion
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Morass
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A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
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Poltroon
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A base coward
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Proselyte
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a convert; a disciple
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Raillery
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Good-humored ridiculed; teasing
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Vignette
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A short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter
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Caterwaul
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To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; (n) a harsh or noisy cry; a racket
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Chimerical
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Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
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Effete
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Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out-of-date
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Hidebound
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Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices, stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative
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Noisome
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Offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious
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Oblivious
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Forgetful; Unaware
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Quasi
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Resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely
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Ribald
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Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
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Supine
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Lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive
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