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35 Cards in this Set
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forestall
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to try and hinder, to prevent or exclude an action, to avert
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forswear
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to renounce; to repudiate; to disallow
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fracas
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a noisy quarrel, imbroglio
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fractious
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quarrelsome; rebellious; irritable
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frieze
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a raised-surface ornamental facade to a building
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froward
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not willing to yield or comply; intractible; recalcitrant
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gainsay
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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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gambol
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to skip about playfully
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garner
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to gather and save, store up
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gauche
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crude; awkward; tasteless
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gossamer
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-a shear, gauzy fabric
-something light or flimsy... -insincere -insubstantial the gossamer of youth's dreams |
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guile
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trickery, chicanery, duplicity
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hallow
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to make holy, to consecrate
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harrow
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to create stress, to distress, to torment
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heretical
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unorthodox, dissenting from established dogma
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hermetic
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airtight, sealed by fusion
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heterodox
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unorthodox
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hirsute
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hairy, shaggy
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homiletics
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the art of preaching
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homily
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a sermon or morally instructive lecture
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iconoclastic
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attacking cherrished beliefs, heretical
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idyll
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a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode
-a literary or musical piece describing such |
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ignominious
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shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified
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imbroglio
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a difficult or embarassing situation
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impassive
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expressionless, stoic, phlegmatic, unsusceptible to emotion
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imperious
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commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty
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importune
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to ask incessantly, to beg, nag
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impugn
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to attack or assail verbally, to censure, to execrate
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impute
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to attribute to a cause or source, to ascribe
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indefatigable
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doggedness, tirelessness
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indolent
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lazy, listless, torpid
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ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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ingenuous
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trusting, naive, guileless, credulous
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inherent
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ingrained within one's nature, firmly established, intrinsic, innate
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inimical
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hostile, adverse, unfriendly
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