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70 Cards in this Set
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Abeyance
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Suspension;temproary inactivity
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Ablution
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thourough washing;cleansing
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Abtruse
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difficultto understand;profound
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Adage
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old saying; proverb
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Adroit
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Skillful;clever
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Aegis
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Sheild;protecting influence or power
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Affront
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treat with disrespect; insult
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Allegory
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in literature, the use of images or actions symbols for other meanings or ideas
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Altruism
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intrest in, or devotion to the welfare of others
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Ameliorate
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improve
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Amnesty
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afficial pardon for past offenses; act of overlooking
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Animosity
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ill will;hostility
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Antipathy
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feeling of intense dilike
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Apex
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highest point
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Aquiline
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prominent and curved like a eagles beak;hooked
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Arbiter
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A judge; one who has the authority to decide a dispute
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archetype
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model; prototype
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arduous
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difficult;strenuous
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Artifice
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Clever trick;contrivance
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artless
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Naive;innocent
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Askance
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Sideways;mistrustfully
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Asperity
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harshness;severity;sharpness of temper
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assiduous
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persistently attentive;industrious
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atavism
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reversion to an earlier trait or type
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attrition
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act of wearing down
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augury
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act of foretelling the future; oman
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auspicious
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favorable;fortunate
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avarice
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miserliness;greed
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baleful
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sinister;highly injurious
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banal
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trite; commonplace;pointless
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Bastion
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part of fortification
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belie
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misrepresent or show to be false
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bibliophile
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a person who loves books;a book fancier
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blandishment
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flattery;coaxing
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blithe
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joyful;gay
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bovine
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cowlike;patient and dull
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braggadocio
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act of swaggering or boasting
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bumptious
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arrogant;self assertive
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cacophony
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harsh unpleasant sound
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cajole
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to coax;to wheedle
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capacious
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roomy;holding much
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carnage
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slaughter,espeically in great numbers, as in a battle
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cataclysm
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violent upheavel
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caustic
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capable of burning or eating away; painful
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celerity
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speed;swiftness
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charlatan
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one who poses as an expert in a skill or profession for which he is not qualified.
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circumspect
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cautious;prudent
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clemency
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a tendency to show mercy or indulgence;leniency toward offenders
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cogent
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persuasive;potent
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cognizant
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aware; informed
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commodious
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roomy;expanisve
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compunction
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feeling of uneasiness caused by a guilty consience;misgiving
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conflagration
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large,destructive fire
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contiguous
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touching;adjoining
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conundrum
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riddle;unanswerable question
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coterie
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clique;select group
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crpytic
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hidden;mystifying
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cupidity
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greed;avarice
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dastardly
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sneaking and cowardly;shameful
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debauchery
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sensuality;indulgence in impurit;moral corruption
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Decadent
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Deteriorating
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Defray
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Pay the expenses of
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Delete
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To erase;to cancel;to take out
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Denouement
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Outcome;final conclusion of plot or action in a literary work
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derision
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scorn;ridicule
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Despotic
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tyrannical; having absolute power
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Didactic
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with the purpose of teaching; instructive
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Dilatory
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inclined to delay or postpone; tardy
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Discursive
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going from subject to subject;rambling
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Disparage
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belittle; speak scornfully of
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