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20 Cards in this Set
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Restive |
The dragon restively pulled the straps away, and it exhaled fiery smokes from his nostrils. Knowing his wife is going to bear a child any minute, he restively walked across the corridor. |
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Resurgence |
Politicians were shocked at the resurgence of Communism in Vietnam. |
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Retinue |
The minister appeared in the main hall with his usual retinue. |
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Retiring |
Though she was dressed like a confident woman, she was retiring, and coquette. |
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Retort |
I believe it is time to retort the harm they have caused. "Everything you say can be retorted against you in the court" the officer said. "At least its not hanging from your tits" she retorted. |
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Retract |
My hands quickly retracted when I touched the hot iron. The leftist party was forced to retract their allegations. |
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Retrench |
Republican extremists are making efforts to retrench the Obamacare act. The company is deciding to retrench, if the government decides to levy even more hefty taxes. |
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Retrieve |
I cannot retrieve the memories of that day, but I can tell you that it all seems hazy. She offered him a slice of apple, to retrieve the situation a little bit. |
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Retroactive |
Because the new pension lawwas retroactive to the first of the year, even though Marthahad retired in February she was eligible for the pension. |
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Retrograde |
The retrograde movement of the gases indicated there has been a turbulence somewhere in the system. The possessed subject seems to be speaking in retrograde Latin. people cannot habitually trample on law and justice without retrograding toward barbarism. |
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Revel |
We spent years reveling in our new found love. Nightlong revels, and licentious orgies, perpetuated the old habits of pagans. The Vikings drunk in their revelries, were not aware of the imminent raid of the Nordic tribe. |
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Reverie
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When the thought of her came across my mind I suddenly slipped into reverie. |
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Revile |
Reviled by his peers, he now leads a solitary life as a lone wolf. |
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Rhapsodize
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Rhapsodizing the merits of optimization, she deplored the branches of science that do not take it into consideration. |
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Rhetoric |
Their cheap rhetorics did not have any effects upon me, as I was an erudite man. He was recognized as a man of rhetoric among his peers. He rhetorically asked "are we not the elite of society?" |
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Ribald |
She did not object to my ribaldries, so I inferred she might like them in fact. Trump's integrity was hurt big time, when his ribald audio was streamed among the youth. |
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Riddle |
His car was riddled by sniper fire. the existing law is riddled with loopholes. I took the riddle, and riddled the sand once again. |
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Rider |
Just one rider to the deal; if all goes wrong we have to take the cyanide pill. Is that alright with you? |
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Rife |
male chauvinism was rife in medicine in those days. The plague ran rife quickly at the turn of the decade. |
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Rift |
The arrow made a rift in his shield. A fragment of continental crust that rifted away from eastern Australia His insults caused an irreparable rift in the relationships. She appeared in the hall, her clothes all rifted. |
