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140 Cards in this Set
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Aquisitive
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able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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Arrogate
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to claim or take without right
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Banal
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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Belabor
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
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Carping
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
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Coherent
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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
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Congeal
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to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid
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emulate
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to imimtate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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Encomiun
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Eschew
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to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Germane
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relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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Insatiable
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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Intransigent
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Invidious
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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Largesse
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generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions
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Reconnaissance
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a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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Substantiate
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to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
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Taciturn
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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Temporize
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to stall or act evasivel in order to gain time, avoide a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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Tenable
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capable of being held or defended
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Accost
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to approach and speak to first; to confont in a challenging or agrgressive way
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Animadversion
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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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Avid
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desirous of somethign to the point of greed,; intensely eager
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Brackish
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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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Celerity
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swiftness, rapidity or motion or action
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Devious
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straying or wandering from a starighyt or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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Gambit
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in chess, an opening move that involves rise or sacrifice or a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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Halcyon
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher : (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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Histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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Incendiary
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deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist;one who causes strife
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Maelstron
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a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
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Myopic
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nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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Overt
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open, not hiden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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Pejorative
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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or dispargement, deorgatory, deprecatory, belittling
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Propriety
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the state of beign proper, appropriateness
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Sacrilege
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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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Summarily
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without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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Sullpliant
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asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly
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Talisman
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an object that serves as a charm or is believe to confer magical powers
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Undulate
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to move in waves or with a wavelike motion
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Articulate
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to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints;(adj.)expressed clearly and forcefully
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Cavort
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to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry
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Credence
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belief, mental acceptance
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Decry
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to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate
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Dissemble
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to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
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distraught
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very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
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Eulogy
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a formal statement of commendation; high praise
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Evince
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to display clearly, to make evident
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Exhume
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to remove from a grave; to bring to light
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Feckless
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lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable
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Murky
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dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity, and precision
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Nefarious
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wicked, depraved, devoid or moral standards
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Piquant
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stimiulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
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Primordial
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developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the ancient times or earliest stage; basic
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Propinquity
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nearness in a place or time; kinship
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Unwonted
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not usual or expected; not in character
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Utopian
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founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
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Verbiage
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language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression
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Verdant
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green in ting or color; immature in experience or judgment
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Viscous
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having a gelatinous or gluey quiality, lacking in easy movemetn or fluidity
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Atrophy
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the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away
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Bastion
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a fortified place, stronghold
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Concord
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a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
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Consummate
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complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v.) to bring to a state of completion
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Disarray
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disorder, confusion
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Exigency
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urgency, pressure; urgent demaand
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Flotsam
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floating debris; homeless
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Frentic
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frenzied, hightly agitated
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Glean
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to gather bit by bith; to gather small quantities of grain left n a field by the reapers
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Grouse
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a type of game bird; a compaint
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Incarcerate
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to imprison
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Incumbentry
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obligatory, required;(n.)one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
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Jocular
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humorous, jesting, jolly
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Ludicrous
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ridiculous, laughable, obsurd
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Mordant
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biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
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Nettle
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a prickly or stinging plant; (v.)to arouse displeasure, impatience
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Pecuniary
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consisting of or measure in money
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Pusillanimous
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contemptibly cowardly or mean-spritited
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Recumbent
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in a reclining position
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Stratagem
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a scheme to outwit or decieve an opponent or to gain an end
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Acuity
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sharpness
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Delineate
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to portray, sketch, or describe in a ccurate and vivide detail
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Depraved
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marked by evil and corruption, devoid or moral principles
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Enervate
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to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of;enfeeble, hamstring
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Esoteric
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intended for or udnerstood by only a select few, private
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Fecund
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fruitful in offspring or vegetaion; intellectually productive
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Fiat
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an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or conscieousness
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Figment
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a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
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Garner
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to acqauire as the result or effort; to gather and store away
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Hallow
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to set apart as holy or sacred; to honor greatly
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Idiosyncrasy
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a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
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Ignominy
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shame and disgrace
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Mundane
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earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
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Nuance
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a subtle or slight variation ( as in color)
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Overweening
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conceithed, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate
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Penchant
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a strong attraction or inclination
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Reputed
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according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation
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Sophistry
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reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound, a fallacy
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Sumptuous
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costly, rich, magnificent
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Ubiquitous
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present or existing everywhere
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Abject
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degraded, base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
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Agnostic
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one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic
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Complicity
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involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
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Derelict
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someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned
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Diatribe
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bitter and prolinged verbal attack
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Effigy
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a crude image of a despised person
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Equity
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the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment
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Inane
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silly, empty of meaning or value
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Indictment
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the act of accusing; a formal accusation
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Indubitable
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certain, not to be doubted or denied
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Intermittent
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stopping and beginning agian, sporadic
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Moot
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open to discussion and debate, unrevolved; (v) to bring up for discussion
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Motif
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a principal idea, feature, theme, or element: a repeated or dominant figure in a design
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Neophyte
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a new convert, beginner, novice
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Perpicacity
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keenness in observing and understanding
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Plenary
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complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
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Surveillance
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a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
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Sylvan
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pertaining to or characteristic of forests; wooded, woody
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Testy
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easily irritated
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Travesty
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a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
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Allay
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to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve
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Bestial
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beastlike; beastly, brutal
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Convivial
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festive, sociable, having fun together
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Coterie
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a circle of acquaintances; a close-knit, often exclusive, group of people with a common interest
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Counterpart
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a person or thing closely resembling or corresponding to another
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Demur
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(v.) to object or take exception to; (n.) an objection
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Effrontary
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shameless boldness, impudence
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Embellish
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to decorate, adorn, touch up; improve by adding details
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Ephemeral
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lasting only a short time, short-lived
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Felicitous
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appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-being or good fortune, happy
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Furtive
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done slyly or stealthily, sneaky, secret, shifty; stolen
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Garish
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glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way
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Illusory
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misleading, deceptive; lacking in or not based on reality
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Indigent
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needy, impoverished
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Inordinate
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far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive
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Jettison
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to cast overboard, get rid of as unnecessary or burdensome
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Misanthrope
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a person who hates or despises people
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Pertinacious
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very persistent; holding firmly to a course of action or a set of beliefs; hard to get rid of, refusing to be put off or denied
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Picayune
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of little value or importance, paltry, measly; concerned with trifling matters, small-minded
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Raiment
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clothing, garments
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