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50 Cards in this Set
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extravagant exaggeration
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Hyperbole
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Desire to harm others or see them suffer; extreme ill will or spite
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Malice
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Inflow; a flowing in; a group arrival or incoming
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Influx
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A fals statement injurios to a persons reputation; defamation
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Slander
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A usually short interval of rest or relief; break, hiatus, abatment
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Respite
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To Pacify, quiet, or put down forcibly; appease, squelch, quench
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Quell
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To continually find fault or reais trivial objections; complain, quibble, carp
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Cavil
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To decorate; grace, clothe, ornament, beautify
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Adorn
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To hesitate or waver; to be indecisice or equivocate
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Waffle
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To toss back and forth; discuss lightly or banterinly; kick around
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Bandy
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To heighten the attractivness of by adding ornamental details; enhance, decorate
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Embellish
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To leave secretly and hide; flee, bolt
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Abscond
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Represented or appearing as such; professed, apparent
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Ostensible
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Having a thing consistancy or substance; flimsy, slight, thin
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Tenuous
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Of second importance; secondary; accessory, adjunct, subsidary
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Ancillary
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Capable of being handled, touched,or felt; tangible easily precieved
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Palpable
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Tending to postpone or delay; tardy, laggard
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Dilatory
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Impossible to penetrate or understand; impervious, dense, thick
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Impenetrable
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Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discouteously blunt
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Brusque
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Flushed with rosy color; ruddy very ornate, flowery, showy
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Florid
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Escessivly sparing or frugal; stingy, ungenerous
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Parsimonious
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Prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered; hotheaded
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Irascible
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Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomly talkative
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Garrulous
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Characterized by authorotative, arrogant assertion of unproved ideas
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Dogmatic
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Something conuincing, appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; valid, wighty, powerful
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Cogent
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Overbearing pride, presumption, or arrogance
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Hubris
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A place having much noise, confusion, and chaos
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Bedlam
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A state of uncertainty perplexity, or doubt; predicament, dilemma
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Quandary
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Arrogant or pompous speech or writing
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Bombast
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To strive to equal or excel, espeically through imitation
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Emulate
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To warn or scold; caution, reprove
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Admonish
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To cover with water; to overwhelm as if with flood
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Inundate
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To look or stare angrily or sullenly; glare
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Glover
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To condense or shorten; abbreviate, reduce
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Abridge
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Characterized by much sitting or litter exercise; inactive
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Sedentary
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Having many overlapping or intertwined parts; complex intricate, tangled
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Convoluted
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Stubbornly inflexible, hardened against feeling; obstinate, unyielding
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Obdurate
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Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; profoundly moving; touching
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Poignant
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Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy timid, reserved
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Diffident
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Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance; tacky, trashy, garish
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Tawdry
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Characterized by sedate dignity or prim self-restraint; grave, fixed, permanent
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Staid
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Having the quality or tendancy to pervade or permeate
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Pervasive
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Crafty, cunning, slick, tricky
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Wily
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Sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive, and passionate
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Impetuous
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Free fomr extremes; exercising moderation and self-restraint; mild
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Temperate
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Arrogant, pertentious, pr pompous
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Bombastic
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Characterized by a fever; feverish
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Febrile
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Unpleasant smelling; foul putrid, stinking, fetid
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Malodorous
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Containing or compirsed of dissimilar or opposing elements; different
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Disparate
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Arousing disgust or aversion; offensice or repulsive; ditestable
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Repugnant
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