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16 Cards in this Set
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abjure
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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anathema
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a solemn or exxlesiastical (religious) curse; accurse or throughly loathed person or thing
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anodynne
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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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apogee
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farthest or highest point; culmination
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apostate
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one who abandons long held religious or political convensions
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apotheosis
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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted exampole a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
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asseverate
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to aver, allege, assert
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assiduous
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dilligent, hard-working, sedulous
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augury
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omen, portent
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bellicose
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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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calumniate
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to slander, make a falsse accusation
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captious
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disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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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, thin
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