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65 Cards in this Set
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misanthropist
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a situation completely removed from teh stir of society
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desolation
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deprivation of comfort or joy
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captial
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of mansions, estates, towns, and cities
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sentiment
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one's own feelings
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hale
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free from injury, healthy
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sinewy
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muscular, strong
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peevish
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headstrong, spiteful, mad
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advent
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coming
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provincial
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of or pertaining to provices
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tumult
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commotion, aggitation, distrubance
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ventilation
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animal with the head and wings of an eagle and the hind quarters of a lion
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penetralium
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an innermost secret part or place
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preeminently
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in the highest degree
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underdrawn
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marked by lines drawn underneath
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sundry
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seperately, apart
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countenance
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bearing, demeanor
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stalwart
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strongly and stoutly built
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gaiters
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a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and lower leg
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slovenly
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in a negligent or untidy manner
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morose
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sullen, gloomy, unsocial
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impertience
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an irrelevant fact or matter
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over-liberally
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overly bountiful
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actuate
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to carry out in practice, to perform
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constitution
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ordinance, settled arrangement
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decamp
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to go away promptly or suddenly
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disposition
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management, appointment, direction
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guttural
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sounds or utterance produced in the throat
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intimation
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the act of making known or announcing
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vis-a-vis
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face to face
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tacit
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unspoken, silent
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physiognomy
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the art of judging character and disposition by features of the face
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interpose
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to place between
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hive
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place swarming with busy occupants
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vexatious
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causing, tending, or disposed to cause
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tempest
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a violent storm of wind usually followed by rain, hail, and/or thunder
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dispatch
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official dismissal or leave to go
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subsided
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sunk, precipitated, quieted
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vigilant
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wakeful and watchful
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signet
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an impressed seal or stamp usually put on a document
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countenance
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bearing, demeanor
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parrying
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warding off a weapon, countermoving
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cur
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dog
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prudential
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characterized by careful deliberation
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laconic
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pertaining to brief, concise writing or speech
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churlish
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rustic, common, vulgar
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hemmed
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shut in, confined, imprisoned
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deigned
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to have thought something fit or to have condecende
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evinced
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subdued, overcome
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corrugated
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wrinkled, drawn into wrinkles
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assiduity
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constant or close attention to the buiness in hand
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sagacity
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aptitude for investigation or discovery
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austere
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stern in manner or appearance
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taciturn
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reserved in speech
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intimate
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to make known formally
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solace
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comfort, consolation
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corroborating
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the strengthening of ideas
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boor
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husbandman, countryman, peasant
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surmise
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suspicion
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perverse
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adverse, unfavorable, untimely
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beneficent
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doing good, performing kind deeds
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rheumatism
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disease that causes inflamation and pain in the joints
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reprobate
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one rejected by god
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malignity
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deep-rooted ill will or hatred
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ensconcing
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to shelter behind a fortification
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condoled
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grieved
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