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94 Cards in this Set
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Garble
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Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
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Collate
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To assemble in proper sequence
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Palimpest
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A manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
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Proliferate
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Grow rapidly
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Gesticulate
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Show, express or direct through movement
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Fulminate
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Cause to explode violently and with loud noise
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Mutability
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The quality of being capable of mutation
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Convoluted
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Rolled longitudinally upon itself
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Actuate
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Put in motion or move to act
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Saboteur
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Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
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Anodyne
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Capable of relieving pain
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Saccharine
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Overly sweet
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Nib
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The writing point of a pen
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Aureole
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The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
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Implicate
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Bring into intimate and incriminating connection
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Garbled
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Lacking orderly continuity
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Debase
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Corrupt, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
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Comaraderie
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The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
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Venerate
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Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
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Vapid
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Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
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Ordinate
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The value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
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Multifarious
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Having many aspects
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Sinecure
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An office that involves minimal duties
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Edify
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Make understand
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Nebulous
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Lacking definite form or limits
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Compendium
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A publication containing a variety of works
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Deride
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Treat or speak of with contempt
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Corrugulated
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Shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges
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Dissemble
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Behave unnaturally or affectedly
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Lassitude
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A feeling of lack of interest or energy
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Aquiline
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Curved down like an eagle's beak
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Ramification
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A development that complicates a situation
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Pillory
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A wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and exposed to public scorn
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Cumbersome
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Difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
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Urbane
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Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
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Pedantic
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Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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Strident
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Unpleasantly loud and harsh
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Knell
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The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
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Pedant
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A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
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Anthology
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A collection of selected literary passages
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Formulate
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Prepare according to a formula
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Etymology
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A history of a word
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Zealot
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A fervent and even militant proponent of something
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Equivocal
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Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
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Scuttle
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An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
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Grovel
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Show submission or fear
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Repudiate
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Refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
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Specious
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Plausible but false
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Shirk
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Avoid (one's assigned duties)
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Axiom
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A proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
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Defection
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Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
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Jargon
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Specialized technical terminology characteristic or a particular subject
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Furtive
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Secret and sly or sordid
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Renegade
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Someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw
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Inscrutable
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Of an obscure nature
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Supple
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Moving and bending with ease
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Eddy
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A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
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Palpable
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Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
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Abject
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of the most contemptible kind
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Sordid
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Foul and run-down and repulsive
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Din
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A loud harsh or strident noise
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Heresy
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A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
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Beget
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Make children
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Jest
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Actively characterized by good humor
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Niggle
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Worry unneccesarily or excessively
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Expropriate
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Deprive of possessions
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Stratify
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Form, arrange, or deposit in layers
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Simian
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Relating to or resembling an ape
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Execrate
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Curse or declare to be evil or threaten with divine punishment
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Gyroscope
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Rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
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Febrile
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Of or relating to or characterized by fever
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Disseminate
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Cause to become widely known
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Drivel
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Saliva spilling from the mouth
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Hurtle
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Move with or as if with a rushing sound
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Fecundity
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The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
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Snivel
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Cry or whine with snuffling
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Deprecate
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Express strong disapproval of; deplore
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Titular
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Existing in name only
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Fatuous
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Devoid of intelligence
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Pilfer
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Make off with belongings of others
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Empirical
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Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
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Besiege
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Surround so as to force to give up
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Inimical
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Not friendly
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Acrid
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Strong and sharp
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Adulation
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Servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
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Proponderance
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Exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
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Obeisance
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Bending the head or body or knee as a gin or reverence or submission or shame or greeting
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Threadbare
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Having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
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Extricate
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Release from entanglement of difficulty
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Enormity
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The quality of extreme wickedness
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Debauch
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A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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Flagrant
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Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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Demur
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Take exception to
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Reprisal
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A retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
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