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26 Cards in this Set
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excrescence |
outgrowth or enlargement |
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formidable |
difficulty to surmount |
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rending |
to tear or split |
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ramshackle |
search or seeking something |
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calamity |
a disaster |
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carnivorous |
meet eater |
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beset |
to attack from all sides |
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riotously |
uproarsly(out of control) |
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cessation |
halt; seize |
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virility |
Masculine strenght |
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palmated |
shaped like hand |
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latent |
hidden |
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enveloping |
enclosing |
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pertinacity |
Persistence |
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discomfited |
to make uneasy- perplex |
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obliterated |
to do away |
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gaunt |
thin and boney |
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salient |
stricking conspicuous |
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certitude |
the state of being certain |
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contagion |
tendency to spread |
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incarnate |
invested w/bodily nature & form |
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ptarmigan |
a grouse of nothern regions |
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paroxysms |
sudden action; outburst |
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lope |
run with steady ease gait |
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infinitesimal |
immeasurably small |
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wantonness |
unrestraining |
