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40 Cards in this Set
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To be indecisive; to waver
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Vacillate
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To accumulate
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Amass
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To come together as one; fuse; unite
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Coalesce
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To spread the seeds of something; scatter; to make widely known
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Disseminate
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To moderate the effect of something
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Mitigate
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Violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat
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Debacle
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Scarcity
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Paucity
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An award; an honor
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Accolade
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Humuliation; embarrassed siappointment
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Chagrin
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A ludicrous, mocking, orexaggerated imitation
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Burlesque
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Intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic
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Didactic
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Wastefully extravagant
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Prodigal
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Stubbornly defiant of authority or control; disobedient
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Recalcitrant
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False; fake
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Spurious
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Having to do with artistic beauty; artistic
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Aesthetic
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Original; unspoiled; pure
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Pristine
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Hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar
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Esoteric
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Harmless; producing no injury; unlikely to give offense
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Innocuous
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Sneaky; secret
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Surreptitious
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Unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess
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Austere
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To free completely from blame; to exculpate
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Exonerate
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to publicly take back and deny; to openly confess error
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Recant
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To break up into opposing factions or groupings
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Polarize
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To subdue and dominate; to enslave
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Subjugate
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To darken; to confuse; to make confusing
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Obfuscate
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One who decides; a judge
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Arbiter
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Will; conscious choice
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Volition
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Environment; surroundings
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Milieu
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Irreverence; an insult to soemthing held sacred; profanity
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Blasphemy
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Properness; good manners
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Propriety
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Uncompromising; stubborn
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Intransigent
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Frantic; frenzied
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Frenetic
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Relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land
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Agrarian
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Scholarly; deeply leanred
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Erudite
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Fragrant
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Redolent
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Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
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Unconscionable
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Dull; bland; banal
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Insipid
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Abundantly productice; fruitful or fertile
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Prolific
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Passionate
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Ardent
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Cutting right to the heart of hte matter
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Incisive
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