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20 Cards in this Set
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Adversary |
(n.) an enemy, opponent |
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Alienate |
(v.) to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, to convey |
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Artifice |
(n.) a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; clever skill; trickery |
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Coerce |
(v.) to compel, force |
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Craven |
(adj.) cowardly (n.) a coward |
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Culinary |
(adj.) of or related to cooking or to the kitchen |
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Delete |
(v.) to erase, wipe out, cut out |
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Demise |
(n.) a death, especially of a person in a lofty position |
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Exhilarate |
(v.) to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to |
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Fallow |
(adj.) plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow (n.) land left unseeded (v.) to plow but not seed |
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Harass |
(v.) to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks |
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Inclement |
(adj.) stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
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Muse |
(v.) to think about in a dreamy way, ponder |
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Negligible |
(adj.) so unimportant that it can be disregarded |
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Perpetuate |
(v.) to make permanent or long lasting |
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Precedent |
(n.) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
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Punitive |
(adj.) inflicting or aiming at punishment |
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Redress |
(v.) to set right, remedy (n.) relief from wrong or injury |
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Sojourn |
(n.) a temporary stay (v.) to stay for a time |
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Urbane |
(adj.) refined in manner or style, suave |
