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89 Cards in this Set
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worried concerned
eager wishing strongly |
adj. anxious
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great uneasiness or concern
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N. anxiety
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certain sure
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adj confident
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a lack of dought a feeling of being certain
trust in another to keep a secret |
n. confidence
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to be joyful to show great happiness
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v. exult
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very happy
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adj. exultant
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to have or to find room for
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v. accommodate
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to make angry to annoy
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v. exasperate
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very annoying
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adj. exasperating
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deserving of attention outstanding
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adj. notable
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v. to refuse to accept control by others
n. a person who refuses to obey orders of the law |
rebel
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fighting against others control disobedient
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adj. rebellious
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open opposition to another's control
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n. rebellion
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not often rarely
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adv. seldom
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to make more active
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v. stimulate
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a violent windstorm usally with snow rain or hail
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n. tempest
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stormy wild
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adj. tempestuous
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to get back health and strength after an illness
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v. convalesce
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to relax where it is pleasantly warm
to enjoy a warm or pleasant feelig |
v. bask
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to keep something or someone from beeing seen or known to hide
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v. conceal
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to strike out or swing wildly to thrash about
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v. flail
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n. a narrow passage between speep cliffs
v. to stuff with food to eat greadily |
gorge
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to stick out to project
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v. protrude
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to move with a sliding side to side motion
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v. slither
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to make or become less wide or less thick at one end
to lessen gradually |
v. taper
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to bring together in the mind
to come or be together as friends or companions n. a person with whom one is connected in some way as in business |
v. associate
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easily broken or damaged
needing care or skill in poor health weak |
adj. delicate
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noisy and uncontrolled
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adj. boisterous
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adj. doing nothing not working
v. to spend one's time doing nothing v. to run(an engine) slowly |
idle
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v. to light up tp supply with light
to make clear or understandable |
v. illuminate
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v. to make fun of in an insulting way to jeer
n. an insulting remark |
taunt.
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willing to let others have their own beliefs and ways even if differentfrom one's belief
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adj. tolerant
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to accept willingly and without complaining
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v. tolerate
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great in size or extent
great in degree |
adj. immense
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very strong very great
showing great depth or feeling |
adj. intense
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great strenght or force
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n. intensity
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v. to move forward or to one side suddenly or unexpected
n. a jerking or swaying movement |
lurch
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to make rigid with terror to petrify
to change into a stonelike substance |
v. petrify
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likely to have or do
lying face downward |
adj. prone
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thinly grown or spread
not crowded |
adj. sparse
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having to do with cities
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adj. urban
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to do something badly or without skill
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v. bungle
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v. to lift or raise expecially by using a rope
n. something used to lift as a crane or a pulley |
hoist
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to stop or seize something while it is on its way somewhere
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v. intercept
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v. to forgive
v. to free from legal punishment n. the act of forgiving or freeing from legal punishment |
pardon
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to annoy or make angry
to call forth to rouse |
v. provoke
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calling forth anger amusement or thoughtfulness trying to cause a response
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adj. provocative
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n. public disorder or violence
a great or seemingly disordered quanity of something n. the rule of a king or queen the time during which a person rules |
reign
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done in a regular orderly way
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adj. methodical
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havung the appearence of not caring seeming to show a lack of concern
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adj. nonchalant
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to bring or cause pain and suffering
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v. afflict
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a condition of pain suffering or trouble
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n. affliction
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not fruitful not reproducing
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adj. barren
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to be made up to contain
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v. consist
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a widespread and long-lasting shortage of food that may cause starvation
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n. famine
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able to produce good crops
able to produce offspring able to produce ideas; inventive |
adj. fertile
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from earliest times; ancient
simple or crude |
adj. primative
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to go back to an condition, often one that is not as satisfactory
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v. revert
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in a sleeplike state
not active bot able to become active |
adj. dormant
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to burst forth violently
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v. erupt
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a violent bursting forth
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n. eruption
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to dig out
to uncover by digging |
v. excavate
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the place formed by digging or the process of digging out
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n. excavation
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showing or taking great care or effort
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adj. painstaking
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to die; to be killed or destroyed
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v. perish
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something that comes before or introduces the main part
a short musical piece played as an introduction |
n. prelude
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to burn with hot liquid or stream
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v. scald
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very hot
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adj. scalding
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amazing because very great or very large
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adj. stupendous
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to be disloyal to
to show to reveal |
v. betray
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to make someone feel sure or certain; to persuade
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v. convince
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poor in quality or insufficient in amount
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adj. meager
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harm or damage
behavior that causes harm or trouble playfulness; harmful amusement |
n. mischief
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playful in a naughty way
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mischievios
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no longer sold or in wide use because of out date
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adj. obsolete
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dark gloomy
sad serious |
adj.somber
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coming later; following
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adj. subsequent
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plenty more than enough
large in size |
adj. ample
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to act in agreement with a rule or another's wishes
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v. comply
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awkward and hard to handle unwiedly
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adj. cumbersome
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angry or resenful about something that seems wrong or unfair
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adj. indignant
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anger that is caused by something mean or unfair
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n. indignation
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n. a joke or the act of joking
v. to joke or say things lightheartedly |
jest
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laughter joyfulness expressed through laughter
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n. mirth
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n. a useful lesson about life
adj. having to do with questions of right and wrong adj. based on what is right and proper |
moral
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v. to make fun of to mock
n. words or actions intended to make fun of to mock |
ridicule
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laughable deserving of mockery
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adj. ridiculous
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v. to walk without hurrying to stroll in a relaxed unhurried manner
n. a relaxed unhurried walk |
saunter
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n. a place for an animal in a barn
n. a small stand or booth where things are sold v. to suddenly lose power v. to delay by being evasive |
stall
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