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30 Cards in this Set
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________ extreme fierceness
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ferocious
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_______ an American writer
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Thoreau
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_______ to provoke anger
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provoke
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_______ to restore confidence
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reassured
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______(n)a leather string used to exercise a hawk
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lure
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______ a large quantity
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abundance
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______ the heroine in Shakespeare's Othello who trusts people
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Desdemondia
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________ a thin layer covering something
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membrane
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_____ a person skilled in shooting
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marksmanship
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_____ a pleasant person
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personable
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_____ hair clipped short
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close-cropped
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_____ to cut in four equal parts
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quartered
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_____ a miliary movement
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maneuvers
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_______ one who makes money illegally
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racketeer
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_____ to hunt illegally
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poaching
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______ to get back for a wrong done to someone
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vengeance
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_____ to be dull in work
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tedious
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____ a bird grooming its feathers
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preened
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______ a bird's chirping
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chittering
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_____having a pleasant smell
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fragrant
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______ a world of organized crime
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underworld
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_______ an acid used to tan leather
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tannic acid
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_______ to be slow in coming or going
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tarry
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_____ done in a sneaky manner
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furtively
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_______ a dead body
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carcass
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_______ a fit of uncontrollable laughter
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hysterics
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_________ something that is obvious
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evidently
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_____ to shrink back in pain
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winced
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_____ a body of water away from the main current
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backwatering
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_____ to sink by making holes in the bottom (in a boat/ship)
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scuttled
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