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28 Cards in this Set
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ADULATION
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excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
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AUDACIOUS
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intrepidly daring
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BENEVOLENT
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marked by or disposed to doing good
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CARICATURE
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exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics
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CHIDE
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to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke
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COMMUNION
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a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and wine are consumed as memorials of Christ's death or as symbols for the realization of a spiritual union between Christ and communicant or as the body and blood of Christ
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CONFESSION
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an act of confessing; especially : a disclosure of one's sins in the sacrament of reconciliation
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DEMURENESS
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affectedly modest, reserved, or serious
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EDIFICE
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a large or massive structure (building)
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EXULT
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to leap for joy
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FASTIDIOUS
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difficult to please
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FEIGN
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to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression gratify to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to
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INCAPACITATE
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to make legally incapable or ineligible
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INDULGENCE
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remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned (as through the sacrament of reconciliation)
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INGRATIATING
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capable of winning favor (pleasing)
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LASSITUDE
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a condition of weariness or debility (fatigue)
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MALICE
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desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
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MALINGERER
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to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)
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PERUSE
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to examine or consider with attention and in detail
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PERVADE
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to become diffused throughout every part of
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PSYCHOLOGICAL
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directed toward the will or toward the mind specifically in its cognitive function
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SACRILEGE
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gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing
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SCAPEGOAT
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a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
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SIBILANT
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a hissing sound
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SURREPTITIOUS
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sneaky
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SUBTLE INTRICACIES
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not obviously woven (don’t realize it until you’re caught in it)
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VIGIL
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a watch formerly kept on the night before a religious feast with prayer or other devotions
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WISTFUL
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full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
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