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21 Cards in this Set
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to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to
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Vex:
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highly injurious or destructive: deadly
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Pernicious:
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showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit
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Magnanimous:
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to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface
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Efface:
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to incite by argument or advice: urge strongly
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Exhort:
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intensity of feeling or expression
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Fervor:
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an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling
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Ardor:
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marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Obsequious:
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straying from the right or normal way
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Aberrant:
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to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
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Expunge:
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something that foreshadows a coming event: omen, sign
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Portent
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expressed or carried on without words or speech
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Tacit
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to ask humbly and earnestly of
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Supplicate
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noxious, harmful
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Noisome
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unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical
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Incredulous
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to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
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Exonerate
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obsolete: to put an end to
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Expiate
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impiously irreverent: profane
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Blasphemous
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to adopt an air of condescension toward : treat haughtily or coolly
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Patronize
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to be a frequent or regular customer or client of
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Patronize
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a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn
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Disdain
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