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56 Cards in this Set
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equipoise
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equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
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errant
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traveling; itinerant; peripatetic
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eschew
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to shun or avoid
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estimable
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worthy; formidable
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evince
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to show clearly; to indicate
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excoriate
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to cesure scathingly; to upbraid
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exegesis
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critical examination; explication
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exemplar
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typical or stand specimen; paradigm; model
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expatiate
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to descant; to discoursel to discuss or write about at length
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expostulate
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to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct, or persuade
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expurgate
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to remove obscenity; to purify; to censor
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exscind
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to cut out or extirpate
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exant
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existing; not destroyed or lost
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extirpate
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to destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind
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fallow
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untilled; inactive; dormant
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fatuous
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silly; inanely foolish
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feckless
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ineffectual; irresponsible
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felicitous
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apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos
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fetid
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sticking; smelly; malodorous
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fetter
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to shackle; to put in chains
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filigree
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an ornamental work, expecially of delicate lacelike patterns
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florid
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flowery; ruddy; ornate
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foment
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to incite; to rouse
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forbearance
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patience; willingness to wait
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forestall
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to act in a way tohinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert
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forswear
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to renounce; to disallow; to repudiate
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fractious
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quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable
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frieze
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a semi-sculpural, raised-surface ornamental facade to a building
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froward
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intractable; not willing to yield or compy; recalitrant
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gainsay
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to deny, dispute, contradict, to oppose
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gambol
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to skip about playfully
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garner
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to gather and save; to store up
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gauche
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crude; awkward; tasteless
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gossamer
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delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; incincere
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guile
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artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity
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hallow
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to make holy; to consecrate
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harrow
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to distress; to create stress; to torment
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hermetic
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sealed by fusion; airtight
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heterodox
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unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic
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hirsute
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hairy; shaggy
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homiletics
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the art of preaching
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homily
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a sermon or morally instructive lecture
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idyll
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a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such
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ignominious
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shamefull; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified
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imbroglio
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difficult or embarassing situation
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impassive
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expressionless; stoic; stolid; unsusceptible to emotion; apathetic; phlegmatic
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imperious
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commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty
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importune
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to ask incessantly; to beg; to nag
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impugn
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to attack or assail verbally; to censure; to excrate
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impute
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to attribute to a cause or source; to ascribe
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indefatigable
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doggedness; tirelessness
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indolent
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lazy; listless; torpid
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ineluctable
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certain; inevitable
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ingenuous
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guiless; trusting; naive; credulous
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inherent
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ingrained withinone's nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established
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inimical
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hostile; adverse; unfriendly
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