Vocab Flashcards

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Given too much of something;excess

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Surfeit

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Hired soldier; concerned only with making money

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Mercenary

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Intense heat; hell

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Inferno

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4
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Boredom

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Ennui

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5
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A type of dish; a bowl

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Tureen

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6
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Faultless

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Impeccable

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Change; flow; a substance used in joining metals

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Flux

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Washings; cleanings

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Ablution

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9
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Present from Birth

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Congenital

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10
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Brutal; barbarous

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Bestial

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11
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Blessing; a kindness

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Benison

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12
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Agreeable; obliging

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Complaisant

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13
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A set of beliefs

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Ideology

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14
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Miserly; stingy with money

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Parsimonious

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15
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Coarsely stupid; insensitive

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Crass

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16
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Gloomy; depressing

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Funereal

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Pompous; high-sounding; pretentious

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Bombastic

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18
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Cautious; careful

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Chary

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19
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Verbal Abuse

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Invective

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20
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To attack the reputation of; to slander

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Defame

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21
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Cid, cis

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Cut

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22
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Fidel, fid

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Faith

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23
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Fin

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End

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24
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Lin

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Line

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25
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Liter

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Letter, literature

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26
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Lumen

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Light, shine

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27
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Part, port

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Share

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28
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Prec

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Prayer

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29
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Sui

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Self

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30
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Termin

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Boundary

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31
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Ver

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True

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32
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Vest

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Garment

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33
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Erasure

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Obliteration

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34
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Treachery

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Perfidy

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35
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To give a portion to

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Impart

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36
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Notable Person

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Luminary

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37
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Descent from a common ancestor

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Lineage

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38
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Conclusive

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Definitive

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39
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Unique

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Sui generis

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40
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The act of killing one’s wife

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Uxoricide

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41
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Vague

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Indeterminate

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42
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Dangerous, risky

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Precarious

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43
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To affirm to be true

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Aver

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44
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A bad or grotesque imitation

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Travesty

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45
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Blameworthy

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Culpable

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46
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Paper entitling the bearer to receive something

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Scrip

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47
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Extreme Poverty

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Penury

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48
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Harmful

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Pernicious

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49
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On movable property

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Chattel

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50
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Spirit; courage; fortitude

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Mettle

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51
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Sparkle

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Scintillate

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52
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To declare blameless

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Exonerate

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53
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Falsely religious; acting devout

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Sanctimonious

54
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To glance flirtatiously at

55
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Enthusiasm

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The top of the skull

57
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A group of attendants

58
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Word for Word

59
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A stamp on gold objects; a distinguishing feature

60
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Greed for money

61
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Toughen by heating and then cooling

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A collection of documents that form a report

63
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Peaceful

64
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With one’s identity concealed

65
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Bel(I)

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War, fighting

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Doct, doct

67
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Ferv

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Boil, bubble

68
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Fratern

69
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Ger, gest

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Carry, bring

70
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Grav

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Heavy, scratch

71
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Home, homo

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Matern

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Moll

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Patern

75
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Pend, pens

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Hang, weigh

76
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Soror

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Brotherly

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Fatherly

79
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A society ruled by women

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Matriarchy

80
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To make worse

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Sisterhood

82
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A human being

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Homo sapiens

83
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Appeasement

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Mollification

84
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A miscellaneous collection

85
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Easy to teach

86
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A summary

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Compendium

87
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Zealous

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Angry

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Belligerent

89
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Still in existence; not destroyed or lost

90
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To free

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Emancipate

91
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An earthen tone(dark reddish brown) used by artists

92
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Wealth

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Correctness and good taste

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An unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated

95
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Plants

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A fixed yearly payment

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To throw overboard

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Of various kinds and forms

99
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A crude and mocking imitation

100
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A dockworker

101
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Dissimilar; unlike

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Heterogeneous

102
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Hostile

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Belligerent

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To talk foolishly

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Unending

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Unremmiting

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To stay

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A feud

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Determined

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To begin to develop

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Ambi

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Aud, audit

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Corp, corpor

112
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Flu, flux

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Form

114
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Gen, gener

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Race, kind

115
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Jac, ject

116
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Man(U)

117
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Quest

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To ask, seek

118
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Rex, reg

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King, royal

119
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Val

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To be strong

120
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Vinc, vict

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To conquer

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Conqueror

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Widespread

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Devise

124
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Paraphernalia of Royalty

125
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Enviroment

126
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Wealthy

127
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Favorable

128
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Surmise, guess

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Conjecture

129
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Incapable of being heard

130
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Secretary

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Amanuensis

131
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Origin

132
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Something asked for