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63 Cards in this Set
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runic
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mysterious
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sagacious
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wise
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salacious
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obscene
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salient
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relevant
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salutary
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wholesome; causing improvement
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sanctimony
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self-righteousness
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sanguine
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cheerful
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saturnine
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gloomy
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seine
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a large net used to catch fish
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seminal
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like a seed; originative
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sententious
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moralistic
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sidereal
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relating to the stars
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simper
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to smirk
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sinecure
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position requiring little work
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sinuous
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winding
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solder
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to fuse
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sophistry
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faulty logic
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sophomoric
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immatture
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splenetic
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irritable
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stanch
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to stop the flow of liquid
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stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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stygian
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gloomy
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succor
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assistance
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sundry
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various
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supercilious
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arrogant
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supine
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prone; lying on one's back
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suppliant
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asking humbly
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supplicant
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beggar
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tamp
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to plug
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tautology
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a repetition
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tawdry
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cheap; showy
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tendentious
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biased
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timorous
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timid
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torrid
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passionate
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tractable
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obedient
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travesty
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mockery
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tumid
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swollen
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turbid
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muddy; opaque
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turpitude
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a corrupt act
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tyro
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an amateur
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umbrage
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offense; resentment
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undulate
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to fluctuate
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untoward
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perverse; unruly
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upbraid
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to scold
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usury
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the practice of charing an exorbitant rate of interest
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vaunt
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to brag
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venal
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capable of being bought or bribed
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virago
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a loud woman; a nag
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volubility
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fluency
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waft
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to cause to move slightly
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welter
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confused
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wend
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to proceed
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satiate
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to overindulge; to surfeit
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slake
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to satisfy/quench
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sodden
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soaked/drenched
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stint
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to be frugal/sparing
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striated
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banded; striped
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toady
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sycophant; flatterer
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turgid
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swollen; tumid; bombastic
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venerate
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to worship
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verisimilitude
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appearance of truth and reality
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veritable
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authentic
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vitiate
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to pervert; to spoil; to make ineffective
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