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38 Cards in this Set
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contentious
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pick fight
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distend
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expand
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portend
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give warning
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tendentious
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biased
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appendage
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smaller part of something
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expend
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to pay out
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propensity
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intense preferance
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stipend
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sum of money
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panacea
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remedy for ills
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pandemonium
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wild uproar
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panegyric
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formal high praise speech
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ponoply
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magnificent display
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extramundane
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region beyon material world
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extrapolate
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predict future by taking in data
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extrovert
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person concerned with outer things
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extraneous
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irrelevant
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phosphprescent
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giving off glow
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photegenic
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suitable for photography
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photon
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tiny particle of enerygy
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elucidate
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explain
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lucent
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give off light
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lucubration
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hard and diffuclt study
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trnslucent
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partly transparent
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immortality
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lasting fame
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mribund
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in the process of dying
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mortician
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person who prepares dead
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mortify
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to cause great pain to body
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internecine
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deadly mutually destructive
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necrosis
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localized death of tissue
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noxious
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harmful or destructive
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perniciuous
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extremely harmful
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aeolin harp
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box with strings that when blown creates sound
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laconic
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using few words
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mnemonic
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having to do with mumory
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platonic
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involve close relationship which romance absent
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sapphic
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lesbian
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socratic
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systematocal questioning to reach truth
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solecism
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grammatical mistake in speech or writing
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