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55 Cards in this Set
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caustic
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adj. sarcastically biting; buring
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apprise
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v. to inform
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clamor
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n. noisy outcry
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abeyance
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n. temporary suppression or suspension
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bard
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n. poet
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cacophonous
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adj. unpleasant or harsh-sounding
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asperity
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n. severity; harshness; irritability
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multifarious
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adj. diverse
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detraction
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n. the act of taking away; derogatory comment on a person'a character
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enervate
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v. to weaken
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daunt
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v. to discourage; intimidate; dishearten
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malign
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"v. to speak evil of
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e.g. lawyers maligned as greedy
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gainsay
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v. to deny; dispute; oppose
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implausible
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adj. unlikely; unbelievable
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credo
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n. statement of belief or principle; creed
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appease
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v. to calm; pacify; placate
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innocuous
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adj. harmless
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hyperbole
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n. purposeful exaggeration for effect
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imprecation
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n. curse
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chicanery
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n. trickery; fraud
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coagulate
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v. thicken; congeal
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diffidence
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n. shyness; lack of confidence
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eulogy
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n. high praise, especially a person who has recently died
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hirsute
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adj. covered with hair
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metamorphosis
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"n. change; transformation
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discrepancy
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n. difference between
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aberrant
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adj. deviating from what is normal
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etiology
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n. causes or origins
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jocose
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adj. fond of joking; jocular; playful
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expiate
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v. to atone for
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minutia
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n. petty details
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celestial
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adj. concerning the sky or heavens; sublime
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condone
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v. to overlook voluntarily; forgive
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lassitude
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"n. lethargy; sluggishness
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e.g. overcome by lassitude --> take a nap
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esoteric
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adj. hard to understand; known only to a few
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laconic
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adj. using few words
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founder
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v. to sink; fail; collapse
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extrapolation
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n. the act of estimation by projecting known information
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introspective
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adj. contemplating one's own thoughts and feelings
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churish
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adj. rude; boorish
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fawning
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adj. seeking favor by flattering
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artless
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adj. guileless; natural
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patois
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n. regional dialect; nonstandard speech
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neophyte
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n. beginner
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homogeneous
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adj. composed of identical parts; uniform in composition
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lascivious
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adj. lustful
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epistemology
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n. branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge
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implacable
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adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased
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lambaste
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v. to thrash verbally or physically
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factotum
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n. a person who does all sorts of work; a handyman
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futile
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adj. ineffective; useless; fruitless
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compunction
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n. uneasiness caused by guilt
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junta
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n. group of people united in political intrigue
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digression
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n. act of straying from the main point
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causal
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adj. involving a cause
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