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20 Cards in this Set
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Abjure
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Renounce, or give up, under oath
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Abrogate
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To put an end to
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Abstemious
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Sparing
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Acumen
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Shrewdness, keen insight
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Antebellum
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Existing before the war
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Auspicious
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Promising success
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Belie
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Contradict
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Bellicose
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Eager to fight
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Bowdlerize
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Censor
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Chicanery
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Trickery or deception using by quibbiling
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Chromosome
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Threadlike bodies that containing chromatin, each human has 23 pairs
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Churlish
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Rude, Niggardly
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Circumlocution
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Rambling
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Circumnavigate
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To sail of fly around
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Deciduous
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Not permanent
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Deleterious
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Harmful to health
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Diffident
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Lacking confidence
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Enervate
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To deprive of force or strength
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Enfranchise
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To set free
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Epiphany
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Sudden insight
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