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20 Cards in this Set
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Abject |
Degraded, brought to a low or deplorable state, of the most contemptible kind, cringing |
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Complicity |
Partnership in wrongdoing, state of being an accomplice |
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Derelict |
One who is abandoned or neglected, left abandoned of neglected, neglectful of duty, can be a thing as well as someone |
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Diatribe |
Bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
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Effigy |
Crude image of a despised person |
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Inane |
Silly empty of meaning or value |
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Indictment |
Act of accusing formal accusation of having committed a crime or umworthy act |
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Indubitable |
Certain not to be doubted or denied |
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Intermittent |
Stopping and beginning again occurring at intervals |
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Lethargy |
State of drowsiness dullness sluggish inactivity |
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Meretricious |
Attracting attention in a coarse vulgur way lacking sincerity and honesty |
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Moot |
Open to disagreement and debate doubtful |
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Neophyte |
new convert beginner in anything |
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Perspicacious |
Keen in observing and understanding |
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Plenary |
Complete in all aspects or essentials for absolute fully attended by all qualified members |
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Prestigious |
Having a highly favourable reputation standing high in the opinion of others |
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Surveillance |
Watch kept over a person careful disciplined observation |
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Sylvan |
Pertaining to or characteristic of forest use customarily in a poetic or literary since |
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Testy |
easily irritated characterized by inpatient and exasperation |
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Travesty |
Grotesque and ridiculing imitation to ridicule by imitating in a burlesque fashion |
