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16 Cards in this Set
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collusion
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secret cooperation between people for illegal or underhanded deeds
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epithet
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insult, abusive insulting word or phrase
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garrulous
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talking to much, pointlessly talkative
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touchstone
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a standard by which something is judged
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pious
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devoutly religious, talking or acting in a a hypocritically or affectedly moralizing way
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perpetrate
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commit or be responsible for something
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amenity
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useful or attractive feature or service, pleasantness
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abscess
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canker, sore from bacteria
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risibility
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capable of causing laughter
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draconian
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too harsh, unjustly harsh
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abate
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to become less
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exasperate
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to make someone angry
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sentient
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conscious, capable responding with emotion
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vacuous
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lacking intellect, ideas, or attention
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inviolable
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unbreakable, secure from being breached or broken
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aberration
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deviation, departure from what is normal
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