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80 Cards in this Set
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plight
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trouble, difficult situation pledge promise
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direful
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dangerous
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mark
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to pay attention
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furbished
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polished renivated
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curb
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to control
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aught
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nothing
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wrought
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made ornimemted
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palpable
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able to be felt touched
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suborned
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to induce secretly
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posterity
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all feutureq generations
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verities
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truth
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indissoluble
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incapable of being undifined broken permanent
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dauntless
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fearless
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grapple
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to come to grips with
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contriver
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one who concieves an idea of a skeen
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wayward
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following ones own inclination unpredictable
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malevolence
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ill willed wicked evil
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blaspheming
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abussing
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conjure
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to change to imagine to practice magical arts
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vanquished
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deffeated in battle
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maladroit
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lacking skill
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maudlin
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accesivly sentimental
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vitiate
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to weeken
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quid pro quo
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something given for something in return
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abeyance
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a state of being temperally inactive
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prescience
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knowlege of events before they happen
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beleaguer
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to set upon from all sides
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salubrious
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condusive to the health
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inchoate
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just begining
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arte blanche
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full freedom
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ad hoc
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for this specific purpose
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bane
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poison or anything bad
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harbinger
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a for runner
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mellifluous
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flowing sweetly or smoothly
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de facto
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actually existing but not leagily
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pander
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to cater to
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peccadill
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a minior sin
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nepotism
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undoe favorism to one realive
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bode
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to be an enfavorable omen
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fervid
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burning with zeal
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fetid
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having amn unpleasent oder
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prolix
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long winded
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sycophant
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a survial self-seeking flaterer
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truckle
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to submit peacibly
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ecumenical
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world wide universal
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sacrosantrmed
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inmune thru ? holy
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malleable
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capable of being formedinto diff shapes
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acumeb
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keenis insight
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anachronism
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a cronological misplacing of events
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apocryphal
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of doutbful othentisity
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approbation
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a state of approvig formally
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incipiant
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just begining or becoming
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despel
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to drive away dissipate
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sotto voce
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under bnreath private manner
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implacably
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with firm resolution
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empirical
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derive from practice expirience
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fulsome
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complimentory
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inmolate
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to kill as a sacrafice
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patrician
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a member of high class
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dichotomy
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a division into two mutual parts or something with two parts
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august
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marked by magestic dignety
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declivity
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downward inclination on a decending slope
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diapilanous
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chatracterized by extream relogcy
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drolley
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winsiful or odd humor
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emissary
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one designated as a rep or agent
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immutability
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inability to be supciptable to change
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indefatigable
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untireing
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insidious
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harmful but intisive
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moribund
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approching death
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precedence
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priority or importence
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primeval
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ancient primitive
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repacity
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vorvacious
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recrudescence
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a new outbreak after a period of inactivity
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prevaricator
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liar
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propensity
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often intensenatural of inclination preference
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sententiously
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with excesive moralizing`
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wantonly
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with self flertation
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incontinently
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with no self restraint often sexualy
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peroration
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concluding a part of a discorse a highly retorical speech
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pestiferous
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annoying infection
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