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50 Cards in this Set
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platitude
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trite remark; commonplace statement
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pluck
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courage
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portend
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foretell; presage
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potentate
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monarch; sovereign
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prate
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speak foolishly; boast idly
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prattle
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babble
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precarious
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uncertain; risky
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precipitate
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rash; premature; abrupt; hasty; sudden
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preclude
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make impossible; eliminate
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precursor
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forerunner
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predilection
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partiality; preference
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prelate
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church dignitary
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prescience
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ability to foretell the future
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prevaricate
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lie
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privation
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hardship; want
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prodigal
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wasteful; reckless
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profane
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violate; desecrate; treat unworthily
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profligate
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dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral
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progenitor
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ancestor
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promulgate
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proclaim a doctrine or law
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propagate
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multiply; spread
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propriety
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fitness; correct conduct
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prosaic
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dull and unimaginative
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protract
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prolong
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protuberance
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protrusion; bulge
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provincial
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pertaining to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated
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provisional
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tentative
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puerile
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childish; immature
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purveyor
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furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer
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quack
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charlatan; imposter
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quagmire
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soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
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quandary
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dilemma
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quarry (2 definitions)
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victim; object of a hunt
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querulous
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fretful; whining
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quip
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witty jest; wisecrack; taunt
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quixotic
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idealistic but impractical
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raconteur
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storyteller
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ramshackle
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rickety; falling apart
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rarefied
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make less dense [of a gas]
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reactionary
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recoiling from progress; politically ultraconservative
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rebuff
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snub; beat back
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recalcitrant
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obstinately stubborn
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recapitulate
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summarize
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recount
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narrate or tell; count over again
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recumbent
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reclining; lying down completely or in part
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recurrent
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occurring again and again
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regress
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move backward to an earlier, generally more primitive stage
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relegate
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banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
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remiss
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negligent
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remunerative
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lucrative; rewarding
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