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50 Cards in this Set
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saga
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heroic story
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belated
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late,delayed
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decrepit
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broken down worn out
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imperturbable
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calm steady serene
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vacillate
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hesitate, fluctuate
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awesome
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inspiring terror wierd
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eruption
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bursting out
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puny
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weak unimportant
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debris
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ruins fragments
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dispersed
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scattered spread broken up
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universal
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present everywhere
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contemptuous
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expressing a feeling that something is worthless
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absurd
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ridiculous
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bigot
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a person who is intolerant of other people or ideas
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abhor
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to detest to despise
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anthropologist
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an expert in the study of the races beliefs customs etc. of mankind
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bizarre
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odd peculiar strange weird
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inanimate
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lifeless
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fetish
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an object that is thought to have majic powers
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artifact
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an object made by hand rather than a thing as it occurs in nature
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flagrant
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outrageous
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admonish
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to warn to reprove
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duress
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compulsion force
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culprit
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the guilty person
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inexorable
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inflexible unrelating
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taboo
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forbidden by custom or religous practice
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imprudent
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unwise not careful
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prohibition
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the act of forbidding certain behavior
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imperative
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urgent necessary compulsory
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taint
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contamination undesirable substances that spoils something
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egotist
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a vain concieted person
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humility
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humbleness modesty meekness
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pungent
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sharply stimulating biting
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inveterate
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habitual firmly established
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adamant
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unyielding inflexible
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acute
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sharp keen severe
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gist
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essence main point
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transient
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passing short lived fleeting
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terse
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concise brief compact
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cogent
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forceful convincing persuasive
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constrict
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limit bind squeeze
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prodigy
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marvel phenomenon
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bereft
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deprived of
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falter
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stumble hesitate waver
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exultation
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triumphant joy
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pinnacle
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summit peak top crown
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array
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arrangement system
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obscure
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unknown lowly unclear
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ardent
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passionate eager
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culminate
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reach the highest point
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