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24 Cards in this Set

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Afflict

To trouble greatly, to distress

Ascend

To rise

Besiege

To surround

Emancipated

Wasted away, abnormally thin

Excruciating

Agonizing, torturing

Fretful

Worrisome

Harbinger

Forerunner, advance notice

Malignant

Becoming progressively worse

Malnutrition

Inadequate diet

Privation

Lack of necessities

Remote

Distant, hidden away

Respite

Postponement

Reverberating

Reechoing, resounding

Sanctuary

Place of protection

Sinister

Evil, ominous

Succumb

Yield, to give way

Surge

To rush suddenly

Thwart

To hinder, defeat

Tranquil

Peaceful

Ubiquitous

Being everywhere at once

Sour grapes

Claiming to despise what you cannot have

Swap horse midstream

To vote against a candidate running for reelection; to change one's mind

To cool one's heels

To be kept waiting

A red herring

A diversion; something that diverts attention from the main issue