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31 Cards in this Set
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acarpous
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effete; no longer fertile; worn out
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abrogate
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to abolish or annul by authority; to put down
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admonish
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to express warning or disapproval
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adumbrate
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to forshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure
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anathema
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a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed, or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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apocryphal
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of dubious origin; spurious
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apostate
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one who abandons long-held religious or political beliefs
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arcane
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mysterious; abstruse; esoteric
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arrant
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impudent
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artless
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without guile; natural; without artificiality
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assay
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an analysis; examination; to put to a test
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asseverate
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to aver; to allege; to assert
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aver
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to state as fact; assert; prove
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attenuate
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to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner
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augury
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omen
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auspice
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protection or support
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auspicious
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favorable; prosperous
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baleful
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sinister;
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bane
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source of harm; poison
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bedizen
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to adorn in a cheap showy manner
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bellicose
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belligerent; pugnacious; warlike
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bilge
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bulge; the protuberance of a cask
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protuberance
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Something, such as a bulge, knob, or swelling, that protrudes
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blithe
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carefree; merry
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byzantine
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complex
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cabal
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a scheme or plot; a group of plotters
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cachinnate
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to laugh loudly
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caparison
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adorn or bedizen
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cavil
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to find fault without good reason
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celerity
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speed; alacrity
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chauvinist
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a blindly devoted patriot
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