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40 Cards in this Set
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26 Verdant
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green with growing
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27 modicum
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a small quantity or portion
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28 aridity
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dryness, barrenness
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29 mollify
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soften, allay someone's rage
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30 cacophony
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unpleasant, harsh, discordant sound
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41 disseminated
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scattered, broadcast, spread
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42 somnambulist
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one who walks and performs other actions durring sleep
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43 soporific
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causing sleepiness
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44 doleful
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sad, sorrowful, mourning
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45 specious
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apperently just or correct, actually not so
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46 flout
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mock; insult, scoff
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47 dogma
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set of ideas or some belief
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48 dulcet
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melodious; soft; soothing
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49 spurious
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not genuine; counterfeit
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50 ebullient
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boiling up; bubbling; effervescent
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31- shoddy
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of inferior material; lacking the quality claimed; sham
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32- shrew
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scolding, brawling woman
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33- discursive
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passing from one subject to another
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34- shibboleth
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criterion, test
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35- buttress
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projecting support of wall or building; support; prop
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36- disparaging
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depreciating, lessening in rank
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37- solicitous
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care, attention, concern; full of anxious desire, eagerness, apprehension
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38- disheveled
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disarranged; untidy; tousled; rumpled
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39- dissemble
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to disguise; to pretend; to simulate
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40- soiree
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evening party; gathering
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51- squalid
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mean, poor, dirty
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52- edict
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public notice issued by official authority
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53- edification
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improvement or instruction
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54- staid
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dignified, sober, sedate
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55- scathing
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injurious, cutting, withering
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56- diatribe
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prolonged discussion, abusives speech
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57- dimiutive
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a shortening, an abbreviation
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58- dillatory
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delaying, tardy, slow in doing things
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59- diffident
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unduly timid; shy
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60- reticent
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inclined to remain silent, uncommunicative
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66- malign
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to speak evil of; to defame; to slander
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67- writhe
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to make twisting or turning movements; contort the body as in agony; squirm
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68- desideratum
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something wanted or needed, a desire
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69- desuetude
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state of disuse, uselessness
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70- parochialism
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harrowness of interest, pertaining to a particular community
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