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30 Cards in this Set
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Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury.
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Austere
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Amish
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good.
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Beneficent
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Volunteer
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Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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Cadaverous
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dead
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To prepare by combing ingredients, make up (as a dish)
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Concoct
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Coarse, unfeeling; stupid
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Crass
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To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Debase
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To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate,pollute.
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Desecrate
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To confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Disconcert
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Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
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Grandiose
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Trifling; unimportant
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Inconsequential
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irrelevant
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A breaking of a law or obligation
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Infration
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To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
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Mitigate
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To rob of goods by open force ( as in war) plunder; the act of looting; booty
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Pilage
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Steal
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To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
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Prate
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Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
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Punctilious
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iNSPIRING FEAR OR AWE; ILLISTRIOUS EMINENT
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rEDOUBTABLE
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tO FIND FAULT WITH, SCOLD, REBUKE
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Reprove
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The act of restoring someone or somehing to the rightful owner or to a formewr state or position; making good on a loss or damage
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Restitution
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Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position
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Stalwart
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Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
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Vulnerable
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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Acrimonious
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Resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive
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Bovine
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Dismay, confusion
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Consternation
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Fat; having a large bulky body
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Corpulent
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To deny responsibility for or connection with
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Disavow
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Impartial; calm, free from emotion
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Dispassionate
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Disagreement, sharp differnence of opinion
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Dissension
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To casue to dissappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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Dissipate
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To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify
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Expurgate
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An armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal
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Gauntlet
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