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170 Cards in this Set
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Aesthete
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one who appreciates and seeks beauty
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Alacrity
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cheerful readiness
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Aphorism
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a wise saying; an adage
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Appropriate
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to take another's property as one's own
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Arable
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able to be cultivated; farmable
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Arboreal
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relating to trees
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Asylum
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a safe place to practice ones religion or follow one's convictions.
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Auspicious
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foretelling well for the future
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avant-garde
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cutting-edge; experimental
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Behemoth
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a huge animal; something of great size or power
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Bequest
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a gift upon ones death
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Breadth
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a range or scope
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Brook
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to endure; to put up with
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Bungle
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to botch; to mess up
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Byzantine
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ornate; fancy
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Celerity
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cheerful speed
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Cerebral
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intellectual
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Chagrin
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embarrassment
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Circumscribed
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defined or limited; isolated
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Cloying
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oversweet; saccharine
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Confound
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to confuse; to perplex
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Conjecture
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a guess
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Constituents
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voters
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Consummate
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Complete, perfect
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Crude
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rude; lacking refinement
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Curtail
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to cut short
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Debased
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morally low; base
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Decorous
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having propriety
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Desultory
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aimless; lacking a plan or purpose
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Didactic
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relating to instruction, lecturing
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Dilatory
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lacking goals or purpose; aimless
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Din
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noise
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Dirge
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a funeral song
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Disconfited
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embarrassed; disconcerted
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Discretionary
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based on personal choice; showing prudence
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Disingenuous
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dishonest; crafty
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Disposed
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behaviorally inclined
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Divine
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heavenly; godly
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Eddifice
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a building
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effigy
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a crude likeness of a loathed person
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Egregious
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blatantly wrong
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Elusive
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Hard to grasp; evasive
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Emollient
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a soothing lotion
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Empirical
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based on data or evidence
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Enervate
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to drain of energy; to weaken
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Enfranchise
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to free from slavery; to bestow the right to bote
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Epitaph
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words inscribed on a tomb
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Espouse
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to support
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Expurgate
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to delete obscene or other undesirable material from a text
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Extant
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existing
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Fabrication
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a lie
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facile
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easy
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Felicitous
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suitable; pleasant
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Feral
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savage; wild
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Galvanize
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to incite; to arouse to action
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Gaunt
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thin; haggard
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Gingerly
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carefully
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Grovel
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to beg or plead; to crawl
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Hapless
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ill fated; unfortunate
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Harbinger
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a messenger; an omen
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Hermetic
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sealed in an airtight manner
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Histrionic
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over theatrical; melodramatic
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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Inanimate
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not living
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Incantation
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a calling out for inspiration or guidance; an invocation
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Inchoate
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not fully formed
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Incisive
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Harsh
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Incumbent
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one who hold political office
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Indelible
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unable to be erased
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Ineffable
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incapable of expression in words
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Inexorable
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steadfast; resolute
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Inflammatory
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likely to excite rage or disorder
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Insular
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isolated; remote
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Intemperate
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excessive; immoderate
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Interlocutor
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One who participates in conversation or dialog
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Intractable
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Hard to manage or control
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Jaded
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bored from many too many pleasure or overindulgence
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Juggernaut
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relentless force
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Juxtapose
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to place things side by side for the sake of comparing.
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Kinetic
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relating to motion and energy
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Legion
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a very large number
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Leviathon
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a subaquatic mythological sea creature.
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Licentious
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morally lax
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Melee
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a hand to hand fight involving several participants
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Milieu
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enviroment
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Myopic
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short sighted
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Naivete
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lack of experience or sophistication
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Nihilism
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a philosophical belief involving the rejection of established values and morality.
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Nondescript
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featureless; hard to describe
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Nonplussed
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confused to the point of being unable to act or speak.
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Obfuscate
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to obscure the meaning of
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Obliged
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forced; made to do something because of conscience or obligation
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Oblique
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indirect; slanted
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Olfactory
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relating to the sense of smell
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Onerous
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burdensome
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Ostensible
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apparent
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Panacea
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a cure-all
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Partisan
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biased
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Pathos
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empathy; pity
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Pedagogic
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relating to education; instructive
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Pedantic
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narrowly or pretentiously learned
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Plaudits
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applause; praise
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Pontificate
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to speak in a supercilious and self important manner
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Pragmatist
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a practical person
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petulant
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irratable
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Precept
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a rule of behavior or action
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Precipitate
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to hurry up; to make happen before planend
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prescience
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advance knowledge
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probity
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honesty
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Profligate
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extravagant to a fault
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Proliferate
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to reproduce or multiply quickly
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Promulgate
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to make known. formally
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prose
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language ordinary used in speaking or writing; not poetry
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Prototype
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A model
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Pundits
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scholarly persons
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qualm
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doubt
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quibble
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to find fault with
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Quixotic
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Romantic or dreamy
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Refractory
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stubborn
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Relegate
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to demote to an inferior position
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Reprehensible
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worthy of blame
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Rescind
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to take back
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Retrograde
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going backward and not progressing
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Sanction
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to approve
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Sanctimonious
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pretending to be religious
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Scrupulous
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very conscentious
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Serentdipity
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Faculty of benefiting
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Sophistry
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deceptive thinking
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Spate
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an outpouring
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Specious
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false, not authentic
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Steadfastness
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loyalty, resolve
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Stupefy
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to stun
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Subterfuge
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deception
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Supplant
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to replace
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Surfeit
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a surplus, an oversupply
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Sybarite
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a pleasure loving person
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Synergistic
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working together and having a greater combined effect because of simultaneous operation
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Table
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to set aside an issue to be discussed at a later time
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Tawdry
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cheap-looking
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Temerity
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reckless boldness
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Temper
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to lessen the serverity of
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Threadbare
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very worn; shabby
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Treachery
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disloyalty
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Truculent
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belligerent
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Turgid
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swollen
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Unctuous
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oily
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Unheralded
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unannounced
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untenable
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unable to be defended
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Upstart
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a revel, an insurgent
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Utopian
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relating to a perfect society
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Vaunt
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to brag or boast
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Venial
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forgivable; pardonable
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Verdent
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green, lush
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Versimilitude
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probability; something that has the appearance of truth
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Vestigial
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extremely small
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Victuals
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food
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Vignette
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a brief written description
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Virile
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mainly, strong
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Visceral
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relating to the abdomen
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Vitiate
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to impair; to render ineffective
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Vitriolic
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harsh, biting
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Watershed
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a defining moment; a turning point
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Waylay
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to ambush
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Wheedle
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to cajole or coax
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Wily
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sly
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Windfall
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an unexpected gain
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Winsome
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attractive
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Witticism
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a clever remark
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Xenophobic
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fearful of foreigners
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Zephyr
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a light breeze
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