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48 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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scullery
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kitchen
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sublimity
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perfection
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hovel
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hut
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supplication
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humbleness
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dullard
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a stupid person
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droll
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old, humorous
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inadvertent
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accidental
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excision
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removal of material
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simians
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monkeys
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insolvency
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bankruptcy, inability to pay debts
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doted
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has great affection for
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flogged
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beatten
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scabbard
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sheath
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fretted
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worried
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quibbled
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bickered
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whippet
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a racing dog
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ripostes
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a fencer's quick return thrusts after a parry
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vulpine
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cunning
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knave
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a deceitful person
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thwart
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oppose
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feint
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lure
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chicanery
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trickery
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quarry
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game, the object of a hunt
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qualm
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worry, concern
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marauding
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pillaging
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muckamuck
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an important person
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epochal
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significant
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dulcet
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sweet
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ardor
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intensity, loyalty
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conglomeration
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mass
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adroit
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clever
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quandary
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problem, predicament
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recluse
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spider
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scoffed
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mocked
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claret
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a type of wine
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ulcerating
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breaking of the skin
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ladler
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a dipper of liquids
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anachronistic
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characterized by errors in time
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staunchly
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faithfully
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swarthy
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dark complexioned
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squabbled
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argued, bickered
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crescendoing
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gradually increasing
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elisions
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omissions
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unpretentious
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modest
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waddler
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clumsy person
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verve
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energy
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unalloyed
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pure
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besotted
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infatuated
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