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25 Cards in this Set
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Contingency
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Dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty
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Decanted
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To pour (a liquid) from one container into another
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Sententious
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Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous
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Corporeal
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Of the nature of the physical body; bodily
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Obsidian
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A volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces.
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Abject
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Utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched
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Deft
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Dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever
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Maudlin
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Tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental
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Derision
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An object of ridicule
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Gaudy
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Brilliantly or excessively showy
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Burgeoned
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To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout. To begin to grow or blossom
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Interminable
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Incapable of being terminated; unending
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Surreptitious
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Obtained, done, made
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Asceticism
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the doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like
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Emaciated
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to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh
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Prodigious
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Extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc
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Predestination
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to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
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Satiety
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The state of being satiated
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Plaintive
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Expressing sorrow
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Innocuous
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Not harmful; not likely to irritate or offend
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Viviparous
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Bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes
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Postulated
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To ask, demand, or claim
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Furtive
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Taken, done, used, etc
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Supine
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Lying on the back or having the face upward
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Inexorable
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Not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties
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