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42 Cards in this Set
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doldrum
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in a bored or depressed state
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conflagration
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great fire
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rue
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regret
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prohibition
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the act of forbidding certain behavior
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alliteration
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repetition of the beginning sounds of words
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artifact
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an object made by hand
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bigot
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a person who is intolerant of other people ideas
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bestial
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beastly, animal like
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fetish
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an object that is thought to have magical powers
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universal
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present everywhere
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abhor
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to detect, to despise
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deplorable
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sad, pitable
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obliterate
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erase, wipe out
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detriment
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injury, damage, hurt
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aegis
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shield, protection, sponsorship
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inanimate
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lifeless
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daunt
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to discourage, intimidate
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anthropologist
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an expert in the study of the race, belief, customs, etc of mankind
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balk
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to refuse, shirk, prevent
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absurd
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ridiculous
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to get down off a high horse
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to act like an ordinary person
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abet
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to aide, act as accomplice
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carnal
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of the flesh
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bizarre
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odd, peculiar, strange, weird
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congenial
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sympathetic, agreeable
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sage
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wiseman, philosopher
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hoard
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hide, store, accumulate
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taint
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contamination, undesirable substance that spoils something
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dyed in the wool
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set in one's way
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imperative
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urgent, necessary, compulsory
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affront
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personal offense, intimidate
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imprudent
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unwise; not careful
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taboo
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forbidden by custom or religious practice
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the first water
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of the best quality, the greatest
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contempuous
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expressing a feeling that something is worthless
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as broad as it is long
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it make very little differenc
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puny
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weak, unimportant
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eruption
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bursting out
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dispersed
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scattered, spread, broken up
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debris
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ruin fragments
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awesome
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inspiring terror, weird
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initiate
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start, set going
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