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20 Cards in this Set
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sanguine
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rosy; cheerful; color of red
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nebulous
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cloudy, misty, hazy
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specious
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seemingly true but actually fallacious
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refuted
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to prove to be false
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inexorably
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not able to be persuaded by entreaty; relentless
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lucid
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easily understood; translucent
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palimpsest
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a manuscript of papyrus or parchment that has been written on and been incompletely erased
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proletarian
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member of the proletariat, the lowest class of Roman citizens
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anodyne
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a medicine that relives pain; comfort
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febrile
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relating to or having a fever
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persiflage
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light good-natured talk; banter
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ruminant
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hoofed, horned animals
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oligarchical
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referring to a government by a few
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privation
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lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life
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spurious
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false
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preponderance
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to be greater than something else in power, weight, or importance
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empirical
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based on observation or experiment
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fallacy
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false idea or notion
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dissipated
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to break up and drive away
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solipsism
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the theory that the self is the only reality
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