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60 Cards in this Set
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to refrain, keep oneself from
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abstain
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eating or drinking sparingly or moderately
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abstemious
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to keep from acting or responding to a stimulus or a provocation
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refrain
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self-restraint growing out of patience, consideration, or tolerance (verb)
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forbear
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to cease doing something
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desist
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to make hostile or unfriendly, to estrange
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alienate
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estrangement from persons to whom one was once attached, or from anything of which one was once a part
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alienation
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to estimate; to impose a tax, fine, payment
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assess
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to absorb, incorporate, make or become like or part of (which incorporates it)
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assimilate
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to coax or wheedle, persuade by flattery
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cajole
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flattering remarks
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blandishments
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banter, raillery
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persiflage
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to admit, yield, grant
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concede
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one who grants concession
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concessionaire
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a privilege to sell something
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concession
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to come down to another's level, deign
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condescend
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a condescending way to show favor or kindness (adj)
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patronizing
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to disapprove, protest against
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deprecate
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to pray against or curse
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imprecate
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to dispel, waste, live dissolutely
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dissipate
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immoral, profligate (given to vice), wanton
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dissolute
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to draw forth (information)
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elicit
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to draw or lead forth
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educe
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to drag or pull out
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extract
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to use threats, force, or unusual pressure
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extort
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to make very lean
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emaciate
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to irritate thoroughly, infuriate
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exasperate
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harshness or roughness of manner, weather, sound, or materials
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asperity
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an angry dispute or quarrel
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altercation
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strong feeling against a regime, situation, or belief
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dissension
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a little war which may go on for years
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feud
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a noisy fight, quarrel, or brawl
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fracas
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sometimes dramatic process of legal dispute
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litigation
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a verbal argument or quarrel
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dispute or disputation
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confused entanglement or disagreement
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imbroglio
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intense suffering
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anguish
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extreme torment
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agony
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suffering from embarrassment, shame, or humiliation
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mortification and chagrin
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a severe trial of one's courage, fortitude, endurance, or skill
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ordeal
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prolonged misery, distress, affliction, or sorrow
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tribulation
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a place of prolonged expiation and purification by which one qualifies for Paradise in Catholic doctrine
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Purgatory
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an especially prolonged and harrowing ordeal
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crucifixion
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specter or phantom, a sudden appearing
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apparition
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something that exists only in the mind and is thus an illusion
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phantom or fantasm
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something seen, a visible ghost or apparitioin, or any object of fear and dread
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specter
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a kind of vapor or mysterious atmosphere surrounding a person
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aura
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a noisy, usually mischievous, ghost
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poltergeist
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luminous aura allegedly emanating from the body of a spiritist medium during a trance
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ectoplasm
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a corpse animated by a diabolic power, or just a person either chilling and terrible or dull and unattractive
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zombie
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a female spirit wailing a warning of imminent death in the family
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banshee
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a shower (of artillery fire), a heavy onslaught
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barrage
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a burst of fire from small arms or artillery, or a burst of cheers or applause
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salvo
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the discharge of many firearms all at once or in rapid succession
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fussillade
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one who has unusual or preternatural insight
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clairvoyant
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beyond what is normal or natural
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preternatural
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double-dealing, deception
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duplicity
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the fromt or face
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facade
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widespread destruction, especially by fire
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holocaust
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something written wholly in the handwriting of the author
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holograph
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a very large fire
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conflagration
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