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50 Cards in this Set
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Pervade
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spread; saturate
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Retort
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sharp reply
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Simulate
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pretend
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Tureen
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soup dish
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Amenable
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responsive
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Choreography
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art of the dance
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Dichotomy
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division into two parts
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Esoteric
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profound; understood by few
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Inert
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motionless
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Moribund
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dying
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Perverse
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contrary-minded; wilful
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Retribution
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compensation
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Sinecure
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a position not requiring much work
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Turgid
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swollen
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Amity
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friendliness
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Circuitous
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indirect
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Dictum
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authoritative statement
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Espouse
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wed; advocate (as a doctrine)
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Inexorable
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pitiless
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Morose
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gloomy
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Petulant
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highly irritable
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Retrogress
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return to a former condition
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Sinister
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evil
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Turpitude
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baseness
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Analogy
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similarity
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Circumlocutory
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wordy
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Didactic
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instructive
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Estrange
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hostile
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Inference
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logical conclusion or deduction
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Motley
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of mixed ingredients
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Philatelist
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stamp collector
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Ribald
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low in language
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Sinuous
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winding
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Tyro
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beginner
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Anathema
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curse; abomination
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Circumspect
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cautious
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Diffident
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shy
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Ethereal
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heavenly
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Ingenious
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skillful
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Mundane
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ordinary
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Philology
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study of languages
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Rill
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a small brook
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Sleazy
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shabby
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Anomalous
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abnormal; irregular
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Circumvent
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evade by means of deception
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Dilatory
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delaying
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Ethnology
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science of cultures and racial origins
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Ingenuous
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frank; without cunning; unsophisticated
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Munificent
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generous
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Phlegmatic
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sluggish
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