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75 Cards in this Set
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Quid
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the basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence
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Spoor
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The track or trail of an animal, especially a wild animal.
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Insolent
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Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent |
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Eland
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A large African antelope having a light brown or grayish coat and spirally twisted horns.
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Mauled
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To injure by or as if by beating. To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
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Woolly
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A garment made of wool, especially an undergarment of knitted wool.
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Kipper
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A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.
A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked. |
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Tawny
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A light brown to brownish orange.
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Cuckoldry
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Synonym: Adultery. A woman that cheats on her husband is guilty of cuckoldry.
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Malicious
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Bad Intent
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Mundane
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Ordinary or bland
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Ominous
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Threatening
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Haughty
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Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
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Mashie
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A golf club with an iron head.
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Petulance
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An unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered person; peevish
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Priggish
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Demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant manner.
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Grimace
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A sharp contortion of the face; expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust
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Denouement
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The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
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Pugilistic
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The skill, practice, and sport of fighting with the fists; boxing.
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Fractiousness
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peevish or irritable nature
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Feigned
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TO give a flase appearance of; pretend; to sham
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Bizarre
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Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd; grotesque
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Complacency
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A feeling of contentment or satisfaction; gratification.
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Intimation
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A suggestion; hint
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Desolate
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Devoid of inhabitants; deserted.
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Supercilious
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Characterized by haughty scorn; disdainful.
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Languid
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Lacking energy or vitality; faint; weak
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Hauteur
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Haughtiness in bearing or attitude; arrogance.
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Vehemently
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Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion, passion or conviction.
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Cynical
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Scornful of the motives or virtue of others; bitterly mocking; sneering.
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Convivial
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Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable; jovial.
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Labyrinth
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An intricate structure of inter connecting passages. A maze; puzzle.
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Simultaneous
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Happening, existing, or done at the same time.
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Distraught
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Deeply agitated; as from emotional conflict.
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Fluctuate
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To vary irregularly.
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Profusion
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Abundance; extravagance; lavishness.
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Saunter
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A leisurely pace; stroll.
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Affront
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To insult intentionally and openly.
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Abyss
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An immeasurably deep chasm; depth; void.
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Intermittent
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Stopping and starting at intervals.
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Presumptuous
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Going beyond what is proper; excessively foreward.
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Ravenously
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Extremely hungry; predatory; voracious.
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Corroborate
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To strengthen or support with other evidence.
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Garrulous
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Given to excessive and often trivial/rambling talk; talkative.
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Holocaust
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Great distruction resulting in extensive loss of life.
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Superfluous
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Being beyond what is required or sufficient.
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Jaunty
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Having a buoyant or self confident air; brisk.
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Transitory
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Short lived; temporary.
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contemptuously
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with scorn or disdain; despitefully
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Precarious
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Dangerously lacking in security or stability
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Ingenuous
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Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless.
Openly straightforward or frank; candid. |
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Sadist
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The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others.
The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty. Extreme cruelty |
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Exhibitionist
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The act or practice of deliberately behaving so as to attract attention
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Pacifist
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A peaceful person. One who dislikes fighting, especially physical contact
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Prostitute
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Generally a person who sells themselves for sexual reasons. However, in Catcher In the Rye, Holden refers to his brother as a prostitute because he sold himself to Hollywood as a writer.
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Ahteist
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A person who does not believe in any God and has no religion.
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Intellectual
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Rational rather than emotional.Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.
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Spendthrift
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One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
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Ostracize
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To exclude from a group.
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Rile
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To stir to anger.
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Liberate
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To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control.
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Lavish
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Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion. An abundance.
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Adapt
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To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation.
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Unstable
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Not constant; fluctuating.
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Obsession
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Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion. |
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Neurosis
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Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. No longer in scientific use.
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Trauma
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A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.
An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, often leading to neurosis. An event or situation that causes great distress and disruption. |
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Alienation
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Emotional isolation or dissociation.
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Qualm
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A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea. An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action.
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Phase
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A distinct stage of development. A temporary manner, attitude, or pattern of behavior.
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Ambivalence
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The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.
Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow. |
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Sarcastic
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A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule. |
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Blase (blah-say)
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Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Very sophisticated.
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Conscientious
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Guided by or in accordance with the dictates of conscience; principled.
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Nonchalant
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Seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent; casual.
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