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28 Cards in this Set
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rueful |
causing sorrow or pity |
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complacent |
showing smug or uncritical satisfactuon with oneself |
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flummoxed |
bewildered or perplexed |
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assiduous |
showing great care and perserverance |
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auspices |
kindly endorsement and guidance |
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gregarious |
highly social |
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endemic |
regularly found among particular people or in a certain area |
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marginalized |
treated as insignificant or peripheral |
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degradation |
the act of treating someone or something poorly and without respect |
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reciprocity |
exchanging things or priveleges with others for mutual benefit |
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audacious |
showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks |
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ebullience |
the quality of being cheerful and full of energy |
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demographic |
particular sector of a population |
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cloistered |
kept away from outside world; sheltered |
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laud |
to praise |
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pervasive |
spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people |
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externalities |
a side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of goods or services involved |
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accrue |
increase in value/amount as time passes |
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malfeasance |
wrongdoing, esp by a public official |
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manifestation |
an event, action or object that embodies something such as a theory |
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empirical |
based on, concerned with or verifiable by observation data or experience rather than theory or logic |
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preeminence |
surpassing all others; superiority |
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hagiology |
literature dealing with lives of the saints |
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ossified |
ceased develiping; stagnant or rigid |
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waxing and waning |
waxing is growing waning is shrinking |
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perenially |
happening recurrently or continuing |
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analogous |
comparable in certain respects |
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exculpatory |
tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt |
