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33 Cards in this Set
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Mottled
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To mark with spots or blotches of different shades or colors.
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Recumbent
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Lying down, especially in a position of comfort or rest; reclining.
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Morosely
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Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
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Brusquely
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Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.
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Contemplated
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To look at attentively and thoughtfully
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Anguished
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Feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish.
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Scourges
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A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
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Bristly
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Consisting of or similar to bristles.
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Liniment
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A medicinal fluid rubbed into the skin to soothe pain or relieve stiffness.
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Solied
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To feed (livestock) with soilage
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Cesspool
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A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
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Grizzled
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Partly gray or streaked with gray
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Mollified
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To calm in temper or feeling; soothe.
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Pugnacious
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Combative in nature; belligerent.
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Derogatory
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Disparaging; belittling
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Apprehensive
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Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy.
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Complacently
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Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned
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Rheumatism
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Any of several pathological conditions of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, or nerves, characterized by discomfort and disability.
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Reprehensible
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Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy.
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Bemused
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To cause to be bewildered; confuse.
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Bleated
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The characteristic cry of a goat or sheep.
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Crouched
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To stoop, especially with the knees bent.
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Cowering
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To cringe in fear.
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Mauled
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To injure by or as if by beating:
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Aloof
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Distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
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Meager
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Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
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Contemptuously
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Manifesting or feeling contempt; scornful.
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Appraised
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To evaluate, especially in an official capacity.
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Writhed
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To twist, as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment.
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Hovered
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To remain in an uncertain state;
To remain or linger in or near a place To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air |
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Gingham
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A yarn-dyed cotton fabric woven in stripes, checks, plaids, or solid colors.
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Monotonous
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Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone.
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Craftily
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In an artful manner
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