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145 Cards in this Set
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Mitigate
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To make milder or more endureable
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Prodigious
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Immense; amazing
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Doff
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To take off
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Cursory
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Rapid and superficial
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Supplicate
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To beg
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Fulsome
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Offensive from excess of praise or condemnation
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Blithe
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Cheerful; casual; carefree
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Ruminate
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To think over; chewing the cud
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Bombast
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Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects
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Dubious
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Doubtful
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Callosity
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The state of being hard and insensible.
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Desultory
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Non-sequitur; jumping from one thing to the next.
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Fledgling
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A young bird; metaphorically, a young one.
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Corpulent
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Obese
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Sodden
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Soaked; saturated
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Gallant
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Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit
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Quaff
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To drink deeply
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Extortion
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The practice of obtaining by violence or intimidation
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Malign
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To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
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Ungainly
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Clumsy
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Phlegmatic
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Having a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
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Winsome
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Attractive
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Upbraid
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To reproach as deserving blame
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Vainglory
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Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity
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Mellifluous
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Sweetly or smoothly flowing
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Peccadillo
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A small sin, flaw
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Vicissitude
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A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances
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Fecund
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Very productive of crops or young
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Pommel
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To beat with something thick or bluky
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Lackadaisical
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Listless; lazy
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Ungainly
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Clumsy
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Gesticulate
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To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech
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Erudite
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Very learned
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Moxie
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Spirit; aggressive energy
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Dulcet
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Sweet sounding; pleasing to the ear; melodious
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Persiflage
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Banter
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Wend
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To go; proceed
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Peevish
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petulant, or irritable
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Rankle
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To produce irritation or festering
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Aesthetic
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The study of beauty, taste, or the fine arts
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Ineffable
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Unutterable in word; indescribable
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Scurrilous
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Abusive; obscene; indecent
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Torpor
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Apathy
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Archetype
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A prototype often referred to in artistic work
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Puerile
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Childish; immature
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Paradigm
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Model or example
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Enervate
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To weaken or destroy strength or vitality
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Turgid
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Excessively ornate; swollen or bloated
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Magnanimous
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Generous in treating or judging others
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Opulent
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Wealthy
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Perfidy
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Treachery
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Truculent
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Aggressve or ferocious
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Deplorable
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Contemptible
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Platitude
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A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace
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Subterfuge
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Evasion
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Quotidian
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Daily; common place; customary
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Espouse
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To marry; give one's support to
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Apostate
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One who abandons his/her beliefs as in religion or cause; revolt
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Gustatory
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Affecting or relating to sense of taste
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Fete
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Festival or feast
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Mollify
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To make calmer or quieter
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Pluck
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Courage
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Esoteric
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Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few (inside joke?)
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Ignoble
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Unworthy; not noble
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Gourmand
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An epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink (like GORMET restaurant)
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Draconian
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Extremely Severe (Draco Malfoy)
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Arboreal
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Of, or connected with trees
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Fractious
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Unruly; peevish; cranky; bad-tempered (Peeves :P)
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Saturnine
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Morose; gloomy
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Foppish
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Paying much attention to clothes; stylish
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Exodus
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Departure of a large number of people
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Deluge
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A flood of heavy downpour
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Gauche
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Clumsy (in social behavior); course and uncouth
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Laconic
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Terse, few in words
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Recoil
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Taken aback as in dismay, loathing or dread
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Transient
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Temporary; fleeting
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Inured
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Accustomed to; hardened
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Undulate
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To move in wavelike fashion; fluctuate
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Pulchritude
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Beauty; comeliness
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Zephyr
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Any soft, gentle wind
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Florid
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Flushed with red
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Disseminate
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Distribute (esp. ideas)
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Insouciant
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Without concert or care; unconcerned; indifferent
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Facetious
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Amusing
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Abstruse
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Difficult to comprehend
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Genuflect
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Bend the knee as in worship
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Trenchant
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Forceful; vigorous or extremely perceptive; incisive
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Insipid
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Lacking in flavor; lacking interest; dull
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Coalesce
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To come together and unite in one substance
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Ebullient
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Overflowing with enthusiasm; showing excitement
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Hoi polloi
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The masses; the rabble
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Indelible
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That which cannot be rubbed out
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Panegyric
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Formal praise; eulogy
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Miser
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Person who loves wealth and spends little
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Pellucid
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Transparent; easy to understand
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Cogitate
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To think deeply; meditate
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Lugubrious
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Mournful; excessively sad
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Harrow
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To distress; create stressd or torment
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Vitiate
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To lower the quality; weaken the strength
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Maladroit
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Tactless; clumsy
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Splenetic
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Bad-tempered; irritable
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Disconcert
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To upset the self-possession of; ruffle
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Feckless
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Lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective; careless
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Iconoclast
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Person who attacks popular beliefs
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Paucity
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Scarcity; lack of
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Effrontery
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Rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness
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Remonstrate
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To protest; object
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Savant
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Person of great learning
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Placate
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To soothe; pacify; calm
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Tepid
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Lukewarm
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Assuage
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To make smooth; (pain, desire) less
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Phlegmatic
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Clam; sluggish temperament; unemotional
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Cogent
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Strong; convinceing
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Lope
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To move along with long strides
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Virago
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A loud domineering woman; scold or nag
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Inane
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Silly; senseless (sort of like insane is crazy?)
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Facile
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Easily done
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Stentorian
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Extremely loud and powerful
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Diaphanous
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Transparent
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Effrontery
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Boldness; arrogance
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Intrepid
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Fearless
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Ennui
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Boredom; listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest
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Fealty
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Loyalty
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Palaver
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Idle talk or chatter
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Meretricious
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Attractive on the surface but of little value
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Pandemic
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Affecting a whole people or all classes as a disease
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Reciprocity
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Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed
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Repine
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To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding
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Sibilance
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A hissing sound
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Temerity
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Recklessness
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*Halcyon
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Calm; peaceful
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*Kismet
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Fate; destiny
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*Menagerie
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Collection of wild animals on exhibition; zoo
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*Palliate
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To ease pain (without curing);m make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness)
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*Aberration
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Deviation from the normal; mental disorder
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*Bucolic
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Rustic; pastoral
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*Cavil
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To quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily
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*Diurnal
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Daily; occurring during the daytime
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*Fugacious
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Fleeting
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*Stultify
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To five an appearance of foolishness to
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*Vernal
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Belonging to or suggestive of the spring
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*Dolor
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Lamentation
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*Effete
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Having lost one's origional power; barren;worn out; exhausted
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*Fatuous
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Smugly and unconsciously foolish; inane; silly
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*Redoubtable
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Formidable; causing fear
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