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20 Cards in this Set
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Guile |
Craftiness; deceit; cunning |
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Proffer |
To offer; an offer |
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Seraphic |
Angelic; of the highest order of angels |
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Amorphous |
Shapeless; of no particular form or type; not organized |
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Decorum |
Proper action, speech, and dress; good manners and polite behavior |
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Protégé |
Someone whose welfare or career is guided and helped by a more influential person |
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Sanguine |
Naturally cheerful and hopeful; confident; having a ruddy complexion |
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Doggerel |
Badly written or trivial verse, often with a singsong rhythm |
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Ascetic |
A person who practices unusual self-denial or discipline, often for religious reasons; self denying |
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Facile |
Easily done; performing or working with ease; adroit; not sincere or profound; superficial |
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Implicit |
Implied; naturally involved though not obviously evident; unquestioning, absolute |
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Nondescript |
Not having individual characteristics; lacking in distinctive qualities; drab; hard to describe |
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Sundry |
Various; miscellaneous |
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Inveigle |
To win over with trickery or flattery; to entice; to coax with deceitful talk; to dupe |
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Dogma |
A belief or set of beliefs held to be true, especially by a church or other authority; a doctrine |
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Scurrilous |
Given to the use of abusive or indecent language; foulmouthed |
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Parsimonious |
Too economic; stingy; miserly |
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Exhort |
To urge strongly; to advise or warrant earnestly; to admonish |
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Nonentity |
A person or thing of little or no importance; something that does not exist or that exist only in the imagination |
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Vociferous |
Loud and noisy; clamorous; demanding |
