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20 Cards in this Set
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slack |
(n.) negligent; weak
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inundation
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(n.) overwhelm or overflow
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arbitrating
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(v.) deciding a dispute
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shrift
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(n.) confession
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orisons
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(n.) prayers
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solace
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(n.) consolation; alleviation of grief or pain
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beguiled
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(v.) to lead by deception
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pestilence
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(n.) disease
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presage
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(n.) something that foreshadows a future event
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penury
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(n.) severe poverty
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beseech
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(v.) to beg for earnestly and anxiously
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apothecary
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(n.) one who sells and prepares drugs; druggist
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aloof
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(adj.) indifferent; removed or distant
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obsequies
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(n.) a funeral or burial rite
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haughty
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(adj.) disdainfully proud
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peruse
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(v.) to examine in detail; to study
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interred
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(v.) to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb
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inauspicious
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(adj.) not prosperous
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contradict
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(v.) to imply the opposite
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ambiguities
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(n.) uncertainty |