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20 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviate
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To cut short
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Acrimonious
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Stinging,biting in speech or behavior
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Alleviate
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To make easier to endure, to lesson the pain
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Celerity
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Quick,rabid
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Commiserate
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To feel sympathy fo
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Demented
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Crazy,insane,mad
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Diminutive
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Small,tiny,little
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Elongate
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To lengthen to extend
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Fortitude
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Strength In facing difficult situation
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Incite
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To urge on to stimulate
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Inclement
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Severe rough harsh stormy
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Jocund
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Cheerful,happy
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Libel
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To write untrue things about a person
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Memorandum
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A short note to help remember somthing
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Omniscient
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Knowing all things
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Rectitude
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Moral virtue good conduct
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Sesquicentennial
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150 years
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Tempestuous
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Stormy turbulent like a tempest
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Tenor
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Th meaning that runs through something written or spoken
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Trajectory
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The curve made by a rocket or something thrown
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