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20 Cards in this Set
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To deprive of force or strength; weaken
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Enervate
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Excessive talking in a rambling, roundabout matter
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Garrulous
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Beginning to exist or appear
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Incipient
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Lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth; timid, shy
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Diffident
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Constant; unremitting
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Assiduous
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Extreme poverty; destitution
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Penury
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Inconsistent with common order or form; irregulary, abnormal
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Anomalous
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Movement of body expression expressing deep respect or courtesy
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Obeisance
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Giving one's name to a tribe, place, etc.
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Eponymous
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Having a pleasant odor; fragrant suggestive; reminiscient
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Redolent
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Going rapidly over something without noticing details; hasty, superficial
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Cursory
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Lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order; disconnected
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Desultory
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No longer in general use; replaced
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Obsolete
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Resisting authority or control
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Recalcitrant
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To weaken or reduce in force; diminish
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Attenuate
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Impulsive and often rashly unpredictable
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Quixotic
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Actively poisonous; violently or spitefully hostile
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Virulent
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Not lasting, enduring, permanent
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Transitory
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Incapable of being expressed or described in words
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Ineffable
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Disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant
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Dissonant
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