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30 Cards in this Set
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aperture
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an opening
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arcane
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specialized and unusual; known to only a few
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chastened
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corrected, reformed
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concocted
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put together; made up
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conical
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shaped like a cone
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entrepreneurial
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characteristic of starting a business
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gorilla tuck
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a crouched position used in skiing
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helices
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spiral-shaped
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loathe
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unwilling
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mercurial
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changeable, as is the element mercury
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morass
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a quagmire, bog
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ostensibly
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for the sake of appearances
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panache
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style, flair
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rancor
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bitterness
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scudding
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pushed by the wind
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sparring
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fighting
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Tolstoyan
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following the beliefs of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
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trajectory
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the path of a moving object through space
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vagaries
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uncertanties
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anomalous
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unusual; inconsistent
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carrel
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a desk in a library or other learning center
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choler
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anger
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confreres
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close friends
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extemporaneous
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impromptu; done without planning
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hypocrite
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a person who does or says one thing but says something else
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idiosyncratic
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peculiar; unpredictable in style
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monomania
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being fixated on a single idea
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pellucid
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allowing light to shine through
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sanctimonious
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falsely appearing holy or moral
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scrupulously
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carefully
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