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60 Cards in this Set
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Mercurial
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adj: quick and changeable in temperament; volatitle
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digress
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verb: to turn away from the main subject of attention
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inane
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adj: lacking sence or substance
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perfunctory
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adj: acting with indifference; showing little interest or care
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turpitude
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noun: corruption
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placate
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verb: to ease the anger of
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antithesis
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noun: the balincing of two opposite words, phrases, or clauses or ideas to create and effect.
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contentious
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adj: exhibiting a wearisome tendiency to fight or be aggressive
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prolific
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adj: intellectually productive
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malevolent
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adj: malicious behavior
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sycophant
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noun: a servile self-seeker who attemps to win favor by flattering influntial people
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boorish
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adj: unmannered, crude
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sordid
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adj: depressingly squalid; wrenched
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callous
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adj: insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic
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illusory
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adj: deceptive
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purblind
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adj: slow in understanding; lacking in sight
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regal
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adj: magnificent; splendid
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contrite
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adj: expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins
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repudiate
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verb: to reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust
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sanctimonious
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adj: making a hypocritical show of religious devotion; righteousness pity
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remuneration
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noun: a payment or compensation received for services or employment
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fastidious
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adj: difficult to please
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deride
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verb: to laugh at in scorn or contempt
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languish
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verb: to exist or continue in miserabel or dishearting conditions
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gregarious
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adj: seeking and enjoying the company of others
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imbibe
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verb: to receive and absorb into mind
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cognizant
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adj: having awareness
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pedantic
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adj: characterized by a narrow and often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
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temerity
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noun: recklessness
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qualm
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noun: an uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course fo action
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elitism
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noun: belief that certain persons or goups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their percieved superiourty as in illect, social status, or financial resources
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misanthrope
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noun: one who hates or mistrusts humankind
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patronizing
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adj: treating in a condescending manner
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capitulate
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verb: to surrender under specific conditions
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amalgamate
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verb: to combine into a unifield or intergrated whole
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Vituperate
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verb: to rebuke or criticize harshly or abusively
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belie
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verb: misrepresent; contradict
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desseminate
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verb: to scatter widely
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equivocate
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verb: to mislead by using ambiguous language
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innuendo
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noun: an indirect or subtle, usually derogratory implication in expression
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enmity
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noun: an intense mutual hatred
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elocution
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noun: art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading
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foible
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noun: a personal weakness or failing
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umbrage
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noun: offense; resentment
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deleterious
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adj: harmful in a subtle or unexpected way
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obstreperous
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adj: noisily and stubbornly definant
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incongruous
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adj: incompatible
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nondescript
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adj: lacking distinctive qualities
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ignominious
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adj: shameful
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loconic
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adj: using few words
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lugubrious
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adj: mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
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anachroistic
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adj: pertaing to something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
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reticence
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noun: the state of refrainning to speak
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vicarious
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adj: felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the expericence of another
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forbearence
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noun: patient enduracne or toleration of offenses
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scathing
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adj: criticzing or denouncing severley
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meretricious
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adj: plausible but false or insicere
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elegiac
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adj: expressing sorrow for something in the past
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insipid
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adj: very dull
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preposterous
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adj: contrary to nature, reason, or common sense
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