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67 Cards in this Set
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to prohibit or pit outside of the law
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proscribe
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engage in wild, immoral living
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debauch
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living immorally
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profligate
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political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular fears and prejudices
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demagogue
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offense
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umbrage
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suffering and hardship
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travail
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truthful
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veracious, veracity
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greedy, grasping
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voracious, rapacious
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great praise
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encomium, plaudits, accolades
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failure to perform responsibility or duty
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derelict, dereliction
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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banal, prosaic
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absurd or grotesque misrepresentation
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travesty
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detested person, anything socially forbidden
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anathema
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treacherous, double-dealing
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perfidious, perifidy
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disgraceful
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ignomny
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a victory accomplished at too great a cost
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pyrric
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an excess or over abundance
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surfeit
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gloomy, sour
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dour
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brief, to-the-point
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pithy, laconic
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your agent of vengence
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jnemesis
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something negitively accumulated
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acquisitive
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an outcast
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pariah
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a model or pattern
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paradigm
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buoyant, bubbly
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ebullient
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guilt
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culpable
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arcane, esoteric
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recordite
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final, irrevocable
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peremptory
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to go against
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countermand
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persistent, tenacious
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pertinacious
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softly radiant
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lambent
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minor faults
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peccadillo
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greed
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cupidity
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cheap and common
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tawdry, meretricious
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deadly for everyone
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intermecine
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a confused mess
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imbroglio
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a push
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impetus
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perceptive
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perspicacious
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flowing together
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confluence
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literally means flowing out of
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effluence
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too simple
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simplistic
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purifying with water
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ablutions
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abstain, withhold
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absetmious
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lucky charm
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amulet
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blacken, defame
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derogate, denigrate, disparage
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publically ridicule
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traduce
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to pamper someone
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cosset
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to give in
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capitulate, acquiesce
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harassed, bothered
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beleaguered
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ruthless, scheming, usually politically
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machiavellian
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unduly harsh
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draconian
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wipe out
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extirpate, annihilate
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failure rate
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attrition
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something not germane or relevant
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tangential or perihperal
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to make worse
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exacerbate
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to end
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abrograte, terminate
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to reduce in size
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truncate
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complicate
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convolute
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happy cooperation
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synergy
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an inferior or unconventional
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ersatz
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inevitable, bound to happen
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inexorable, ineluctable
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wandering aimlessly
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desultory
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everyday events
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quotidian
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too "holier than thou"
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sanctimonious
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to act "preachy" or sanctimonious
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pontificate
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unclear
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ambiguity
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spreading, dissemination
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diaspora
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to slaughter
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avattoir
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