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20 Cards in this Set
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Adversary
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(n) a country or person you are fighting or competing against
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Alienate
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(v) to do something that makes someone unfriendly or unwilling to support you
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Artifice
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(n) the use of clever tricks to deceive someone
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Coerce
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(v) to force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them
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Craven
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(adj, n) completely lacking courage
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Culinary
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(adj) relating to cooking
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Delete
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(v) to remove something that has been written down or stored
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Demise
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(n) the end of something that used to exist
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Exhilarate
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(v) to make someone feel very excited and happy
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Fallow
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(adj) land that is dug or ploughed but is not used for growing crops
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Harass
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(v) to make someone's life unpleasant, for example by frequently saying offensive things to them or threatening them
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Inclement
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(adj) inclement weather is unpleasantly cold, wet etc
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Muse
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(v) to say something in a way that shows you are thinking about it carefully
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Negligible
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(adj) too slight or unimportant to have any effect
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Perpetuate
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(v) to make a situation, attitude etc, especially a bad one, continue to exist for a long time
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Precedent
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(n) an action or official decision that can be used to give support to later actions or decisions
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Punitive
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(adj) intended to punish someone
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Redress
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(v) to correct something that is wrong or unfair (n) money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or damaged your property
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Sojourn
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(n) a short period of time that you stay in a place that is not your home
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Urbane
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(adj) behaving in a relaxed and confident way in social situations
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