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20 Cards in this Set
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accelerate
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to speed up, increase the speed
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compensate
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to make up for, pay, renumerate
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exaggerate
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to overstate, magnify, inflate
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humiliate
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to lower the self-respect of, mortify
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jeopardize
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to endanger
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impale
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to pierce, thrust through
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perpetrate
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to perform, carry out
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promulgate
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to make known, spread widely
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resuscitate
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to revive, bring back to life
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simulate
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to feign, pretend, imitate
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metaphor
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an implied comparison
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moron
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person of low intelligence, fool
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nonentity
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a person or thing of no importance
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parity
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equality, equivalence
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satellite
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a small body revolving around a larger one; a person, group, nation dependent on a larger one
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scroll
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an ancient rolled manuscript
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simile
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an expressed comparisons
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sovereign
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the supreme ruler, monarch
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stratum
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a layer or level
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tenacity
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unyielding firmness
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